This document discusses various technology tools that can be used for language instruction. It identifies social networking tools like blogs, discussion groups, and social bookmarking that allow students to connect and share information. It also outlines audio and screen recording tools as well as presentation tools. Finally, it mentions apps and games that can reinforce language learning and provides examples of polling, quizzing, and lyric decoding activities.

1. Technology Tools
for Language Instruction
Language Learning Center
December 12, 2012

2. Types of technology
• Social networking tools
• Apps and games for learning
• Activities that use technology

3. Social networking tools
• Screen capture
• Audacity
• Slideshare
• Social Bookmarking
• Polling
• Blogs
• Discussion Groups

4. Screen capture
• ScreenR - 5-minute limit
– Java-based CAN be played on iOS devices
– No download
– Public
• Jing - 5-minute limit
– Flash-based (no iOS devices!)
– Download
– Can be private or public
• Evan Ashworth on Jing on LLC YouTube
• Example

5. Audio tools
• Audacity
• How to Record MP3 Files Using Audacity

6. Presentations
• Slideshare
• Create presentations, find and use other
people’s presentations
• Different CC licenses
• Levels of privacy (paid membership)
• Can embed in Learn

7. Social Bookmarking
• Social Bookmarking in Plain English
• Delicious.com

8. Polling
• Poll Everywhere
https://www.polleverywhere.com/login

9. Blogging Tools
• UNM’s Learn has a blog feature built in.
• WordPress has both hosted and self-install versions, both free. It's one of the best
blogging platforms, and the most popular by far. Probably want to use the hosted
version (Wordpress.com)
• Blogger is a great free blogging platform from Google that offers nice
templates, widgets, mobile blogging. They also offer unlimited bandwidth and let you
use your own domain for free.
• Tumblr is probably the best blog platform for microblogs. It's very simple and easy to
use, but they do provide advanced features like detailed visitor statistics. You will find
that a lot of blogs are picture or video blogs with very little text content.
• Posterous is free and designed to make mobile blogging as easy as possible. Users can
post new entries on their websites by sending e-mails from their PC or cell
phone, and even include. It's integrated with a variety of social network services like
Twitter, Flickr and Facebook.
• Weebly is a free web site creator which allows users to make webpages and blogs
with a few clicks, simply by choosing a theme and the widgets they'd like to use. They
don't have any kind of bandwidth restrictions.

10. Discussion Groups
• Students as (co)moderators
• Fast feedback

11. Games & quick activities
• Anki
• www.20Q.net
• http://www.lyricstraining.com - Work in
groups to decipher lyrics

12. Questions?
The End