Presentation for LARC Social Media Conference August 2011

1. Technology and World Languages Standards – Engaging 21 st century students Catalina Bohorquez and Michelle Olah World Languages Technology Consultants www.wltechconsultants.com

4. ACTFL World Languages Standards

5. How can we teach our languages AND incorporate the skills that our students need to be successful in the 21 st century?

8. Where to Start?

9. Don’t start from scratch…

11. Then “re-design” it into something exciting and new!

12. “ Classic” projects transformed with web 2.0

15. Some of our “revamped” Classics

16. New Web 2.0 Family Projects Web tool: Voicethread Beginning Spanish- http://ed.voicethread.com/?#q+my+family.b1706081.i8984765 Spanish Collaborative Family Project http://ed.voicethread.com/share/235029/ Intermediate Spanish – Grammar focus http://ed.voicethread.com/share/8974/

18. How to comment on a Voicethread http://voicethread.com/share/2175134/

19. How to create a Voicethread Creating a Voicethread

20. Ideas? How will you use voicethread?

23. New Web 2.0 Writing Projects Web tool: Storybird Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print. http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/

24. Demo Storybird

25. Storybird Topic A. Food / Opinions B. Descriptions C. Narrating in the past

26. Your turn…How could you use Storybird in Presentational Writing?

28. Tutorials Voicethread Tutorial Storybird Tutorial

29. Catalina Bohorquez and Michelle Olah World Languages Technology Consultants www.wltechconsultants.com