This document discusses using multimedia tools for teaching languages. It summarizes experiences using Voicethread, iMovie and Moodle. Voicethread allows students to practice oral and listening skills collaboratively in multiple languages. iMovie was used to create movies for the classroom using original student and teacher work, avoiding copyright issues. Moodle is praised as a useful tool that allows independent study and differentiated instruction. Challenges include technological difficulties with international collaboration on Voicethread and issues with audio/video quality when posting iMovie projects online.

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2. Best Tool for Teaching Languages http://voicethread.com/share/2170855/ It allows students to practice oral and listening skills in a creative manner, using one or more languages Ideal for global collaboration on innumerable topics

3. My work Thoroughly enjoyed learning the process to edit pictures. I will definitely use it in my lesson planning .

4. Great tool to use in class to introduce new topics; for collaboration between students and colleagues

5. iMovie "Civilizaciones Prehispanicas" Creating movies for the classroom with original work from students and teachers eliminates concerns over copyright laws Ideal for most Multiple Intelligences

6. Posting a video

7. Successes Creating a voicethread using all kinds of resources: iMovie, recording, images, family, world languages, and an international collaboration to create a multilingual tool Creating an iMovie that required using old pictures, scanning, music files from Mac, editing of pictures, and text Posting a video on you tube

8. Challenges Technological aspects of having participants from other countries to collaborate in Voicethread Extending and/or reducing audio clips on iMovie and then realizing that all the video clips were altered as a result of this Devoting several hours to create and edit an iMovie, watching tutorials to embed on YouTube and discovering that the quality of the video was diminished when it was posted

9. The more I use moodle, the more I believe that this is a very useful tool for independent learners Moodle allows students to go at their own pace while working on their projects, studies, etc. It requires an instructor that is savvy in technology to guide students through the increasingly growing digital world Outstanding tool for differentiated instruction