The document discusses effective visuals for language learning. It provides tips for creating visuals using colors, shapes, pictures, and photographs. Various ICT tools are also introduced that can help make visuals, including websites for photo sharing and word clouds. The document encourages teachers to develop their own visuals and share them with others.
Rock Star Design: How to create media for lessons that rock!Neela Bell
Are you feeling way behind the curve on visual learning, social media and video? Well, ditch that clipart and hold on tight … you're in for a whirlwind tour of what's awesome (and really easy) to add to your teaching toolkit this year, including; screencasting, soundtracks, infographics and 50 ways to use Twitter with your class.
Slides from a presentation in support of a workshop for grades 5-12 math teachers at Charlottesville City Schools in Charlottesville, VA; 18 August 2010.
Rock Star Design: How to create media for lessons that rock!Neela Bell
Are you feeling way behind the curve on visual learning, social media and video? Well, ditch that clipart and hold on tight … you're in for a whirlwind tour of what's awesome (and really easy) to add to your teaching toolkit this year, including; screencasting, soundtracks, infographics and 50 ways to use Twitter with your class.
Slides from a presentation in support of a workshop for grades 5-12 math teachers at Charlottesville City Schools in Charlottesville, VA; 18 August 2010.
1. “I see what you mean”
Effective visuals for language
learning
Isabelle Jones,
The Radclyffe School
My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Twitter: @icpjones
icpjones@yahoo.co.uk Page 1
2. • Create effective visuals to support language
learning: from colours and shapes to pictures
and photographs.
• Visuals and memorization: Find what works for
different language learners
• Discover ICT Tools to support the creation of
effective language learning visuals
• Widen your repertoire: organise and share your
own language learning visuals
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3. What are effective visuals for language learning?
•Support the point your are making
•Makes an lasting impression on the audience
•Can be used to support recall
•Can support cultural awareness
They are not…
•Just pretty
•Distracting
•Ethnocentric
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5. Create your own visuals
My toolbox:
•Colours
•Shapes
•Pictures
•Photographs
•ICT tools
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6. Create your own visuals
Colours:
•Feelings associated with colours
•Can you read it?
•Colour mixing
•Contrasts
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7. Create your own visuals
La petite fille aime les fraises.
Les petits garçons aiment les
framboises.
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8. Create your own visuals
Shapes:
•Shapes to hide behind
•Labels
•Moving shapes
•Recyclable templates
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9. Create your own visuals
Shapes:
•Shapes to hide behind • Moving shapes
•Labels • Recycle templates
bleu
Layer shapes/ animation/ send to the back/front/
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Transparency/ shape fill/ fly in/out
10. Create your own visuals
Pictures:
•Your own pictures
•Students’ own pictures
•Pictures available on the
internet
•Black and white vs colour
•Own vs somebody else’s
•Pictures vs Photos
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14. Visuals and memorization
Colours for silent letters, gender, number
Animations to help letter sequencing (drop), word order,
change in noun/ verb endings
Les petits garçons aiment les framboises.
La petite fille aime les fraises.
Ils the red hat
a im e nt
hat redPage 14
17. Quick to find a range of pictures Sometimes difficult to verify
Target-Language used directly origin of pictures
Visuals from target language Copyright issues
countries Page 17
18. A range of high quality visuals More time-consuming than
Good search facilities (flickr cc) Google
Copyright clearly stated More artistic pictures-
Lots of linked apps distraction?
Tagging/ group facilities Page 18
25. A source of infographic in foreign languages
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26. For or against clipart?
Microsoft clipart-safe option
Animated clipart
HD world
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27. Photographs
Different situations: inside/outside of classroom/ licenses
Image Use Policy
The Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use
by students and teachers in an educational setting. The original photographers of
each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their
use in this collection. The images may not be sold as an image collection or partial
image collection. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers
and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. These could include, but
are not limited to, school projects, contests, web pages, and fund raising activities for
the express purpose of improving student educational opportunities. Page 27
29. Photographs
Using/Licensing your own photographs
Creative commons photos to adapt
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/87929958@N08/8042175275/in/pool-858082@N25 /
32. Photographs
Snapshot from a picture or a website
Snapshot tools
ng http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
creenspresso http://www.screenpresso.com
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33. Photographs
Snapshot from a picture or a website
Quelle sont les couleurs de la peinture?
Il y a combien de personnes?
Que font-elles?
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34. Photographs
Snapshot from a picture or
a website
http://www.hippopotamus.fr/formules/hippodej-11.90-12547561997911.html
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36. A B C D E F G
Cherchez l’erreur
1
Dans la case … 2
Il y a … 3
Il n’y a pas de …
Plus haut 4
Plus bas…
À gauche … 5
À droite …
6
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spot-difference!-professional/id301049014?mt=8
7
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37. Word clouds and mind-mapping
Wordle http://www.wordle.net
Image chef http://www.imagechef.com
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38. Word clouds and mind-mapping
Tagxedo http://www.tagxedo.com
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39. Word clouds and mind-mapping
Mindomo http://www.mindomo.com Page 39
41. Organise and share http://www.diigo.com
Diigo (social bookmarking)
Flickr groups and sharing
sets of pictures
Pinterest-following themed
boards/ your twitter friends
Mobile apps
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42. • Create effective visuals to support language
learning: from colours and shapes to pictures
and photographs.
• Visuals and memorization: Find what works for
different language learners
• Discover ICT Tools to support the creation of
effective language learning visuals
• Widen your repertoire: organise and share your
own language learning visuals
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44. “I see what you mean”
Effective visuals for language
learning
Isabelle Jones,
The Radclyffe School
My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Twitter: @icpjones
icpjones@yahoo.co.uk Page 44