ICT in the Languages Classroom
Digital tool kit for the Languages classroom
 Headphones with mic
 Portable mic
 Web cam with mic
 Flip camera
 Digital voice recording device with USB
 Digital camera
 Portable speakers
 Personal mobile learning devices: iPod touch, iPhone, iPad
ICT for Visualising Thinking
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Description
Inspiration
 http://www.inspiration.com
Software
 Thinking tool, used for creating Mind Maps
 Free 30 day trial available
Webspiration
 http://www.mywebspiration.com
 Online resource for creating mind maps etc.
 Free classroom trial available
Exploratree
 http://www.exploratree.org.uk
Bubbl.us
 http://www.bubbl.us
 Online brainstorming tool
Mindmeister
 http://www.mindmeister.com
Read, Write,
 http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/storymap/
Think
ICT for Creating
Flash cards
Quizlet
 http://quizlet.com
 Online tool for memorising vocabulary lists
 Users need to create an account (free)
Study Stack
 http://www.studystack.com (free to create an account)
 Games can be embedded in a blog
Flashcard Machine
 http://www.flashcardmachine.com
Flashcard
 http://www.flashcardexchange.com
Exchange
Anki
 http://ankisrs.net/
Study Blue
 http://www.studyblue.com/
Games
Quia
 http://www.quia.com (free 30 day trial)
 Online tool for creating games and quizzes
 In the ‘Quia Web’ section under ‘Shared activities’ there are freely
accessible activities for students
Languages Online
 http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/
 Students are able to make their own interactive tasks:
 Memory Game Maker
 Tetris Game Maker
 Matching Game Maker
 Sentence Game Maker
 Comprehension Task Maker
 Cartoon Story Maker
 Templates are free to download
 Games are easy to make by following a series of steps
 There are some ready made activities already on the site for students to
access
Digital Dialects
 http://www.digitaldialects.com/
Hot Potatoes
 Free to download at: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
 JCloze (gap fill exercises)
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 JMatch (matching exercises)
 JQuiz (question based exercises)
 JCross (crosswords)
 JMix (jumble exercises)
Create games using Hot Potatoes software then save as a web page for
students to access
http://scratch.mit.edu/
http://www.jigzone.com
Users are able to create free online jigsaw puzzles using their own photos
Your own photos may need to be resized before you are able to create a
jigsaw puzzle. If so, go to: http://www.picresize.com.
Created puzzles can be uploaded onto a blog
http://www.mystudiyo.com (free trial)
http://www.taskmagic.com.au (free 30 day trial)
Teach and practise any Roman-script language
Templates to create games
Could be used for other curriculum areas as well
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/Ppt-games/
Useful games are:
 Who Wants to be a Millionaire
 Jeopardy
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
Free online map puzzles
http://befuddlr.com
Makes puzzles out of photos
http://classtools.net
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/
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https://www.zondle.com/publicPages/welcome.aspx
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Scratch
Jig Zone
My Studiyo
Task Magic
PowerPoint
Presentations and
PowerPoint Games
Owl and Mouse
Befuddlr!
Class Tools
Tools for
Educators
Zondle: Games to
support learning
Website Creation
Languages Online
Portal Maker
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http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/portal/
Enables you or your students to create simple web pages to store your
Languages Online games and other resources
Website creation
 http://www.webs.com
 Create your own website for free (limited features)
Cool Text
 http://cooltext.com/ Free graphics generator for web pages
Creating Animation/Comics/Short films/Books
Comic Life
 http://comiclife.com (30 day trial)
 Allows users to create comics.
Strip Generator
 http://stripgenerator.com
Xtranormal
 http://www.xtranormal.com/index
Goanimate
 http://goanimate.com
Stop Motion
 http://clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html
Animator
Voki
 http://www.voki.com
 Create personalised talking voice characters in a language
 You can upload your Voki onto a blog or profile
Dvolver
 http://www.dfilm.com/live/mm.html
Animoto
 http://animoto.com
Toon Doo
 http://www.toondoo.com
Story Bird
 http://storybird.com
Domo Animate
 http://domo.goanimate.com
Make Beliefs
 http://www.makebeliefscomix.com
Comix!
Zoo Burst
 http://www.zooburst.com/ Digital storytelling tool
Jelly Cam
 http://jellycam.co.uk/ Stop-motion maker
Bookemon
Blurb.com
Kerpoof
Create flipping
books
Blabberize
Listening
Audacity
Audio Lingua
Woices
Audioboo
Rhino Spike
Ujam
Writing
Essay Map (no
Japanese script
support)
Creating Presentations
Photostory 3 for
Windows
Prezi
Photo Peach
Screen Capture
Jing
Irfanview
Freez Screen
Video Capture
Cam Studio
Screenr
Use of cameras
Flip Cameras
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http://www.bookemon.com/ Create books online
http://www.blurb.com/
http://www.kerpoof.com/
http://www.flipsnack.com/
Create book in PowerPoint or Word, save as a PDF and import to Flipsnack
http://blabberize.com
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Free audio editor and recorder available at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You can create Podcasts and upload them onto http://www.podomatic.com
for your students to access
Need to download ‘lame encoder’ in order to save files as MP3
http://www.audio-lingua.eu/?lang=en
http://woices.com
http://audioboo.fm/
http://rhinospike.com
http://www.ujam.com
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http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/essaymap/
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Create video stories using your own pictures. Narration for pictures can
also be recorded as well as including text and background music.
http://prezi.com
http://photopeach.com/
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http://www.jingproject.com
Allows you to capture what you are doing on your computer screen
http://www.irfanview.com/
http://www.smallvideosoft.com/screen-video-capture/
A screen capture and recording tool to record screen activities and sounds
into AVI files. Any part of the screen’s activities can be recorded along
with the movements of the cursor, and a microphone can be used to narrate
your screen recordings.
http://camstudio.org
http://www.screenr.com
Many Cam
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Vimeo (video
sharing)
Viddix
Assessment
Create online
assignments
Google Docs
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Easy to use cameras for students to record short role-plays/films in a
language. The camera comes with a USB port which means files can easily
be downloaded onto a computer and then edited using editing software.
Short movie presentations can be uploaded onto websites such as
http://vodpod.com or onto a blog.
http://www.manycam.com/
Students can decorate the appearance of someone in the class using the web
cam. Different features can be added to faces such as glasses and hats. This
is a good activity for practising how to describe physical appearance.
http://vimeo.com/
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http://www.viddix.com
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http://lingtlanguage.com/
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Create a gmail account through the Google website:
http://www.google.com.au
To access Google Docs, click on ‘more’ tab at the top left side of the screen
and then ‘Documents’
Log in with your gmail account
Can upload template onto blog. Click on ‘More actions’ then ‘embed’.
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Test Generator
Miscellaneous
Floor planner
Interactive posters
Text to speech
Big Huge Labs
Umapper
Place Spotting
Wordle
Word Clouds
Trip advisor
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Sketchcast
Aviary (for
images)
Zoom.it (for
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images)
Thumb Scribes
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Thinglink
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ICT for Communicating
Blogs
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Wikis
Stixy
Wall Wisher
Voice Thread
Instant Online
Collaboration
Twitter
Skype
Web
Conferencing
Todays Meet
Word Champ
Beyond Borders
Instant online
collaboration
Cue Prompter
Copy the code which appears into your blog.
http://testmoz.com
Create your own ‘dream house’. Can label items in the language being
studied.
http://www.floorplanner.com/
http://www.glogster.com
http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
http://www.bighugelabs.com
Enables you to use your digital photos
http://www.umapper.com
http://www.placespotting.com
http://www.wordle.net
http://www.tagxedo.com/
http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com
Online travel slideshow
http://sketchcast.com/
http://www.aviary.com/
http://zoom.it/
https://www.thumbscribes.com/ Creating collaborative content
http://www.thinglink.com/
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Blogger: http://www.blogger.com
Edublogs: http://edublogs.org
Word Press: http://wordpress.org
Free mobile travel blog (possible for travel assignments):
http://www.ontheroad.to/
Posterous: http://www.posterous.com
Edmodo: http://www.edmodo.com
Information on creating blogs: http://weblogg-ed.com
Class Blogmeister: http://classblogmeister.com
Live Journal: http://www.livejournal.com
Weebly: http://www.weebly.com/
Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com
Wet Paint: http://www.wetpaint.com
http://www.stixy.com
http://www.wallwisher.com/
Interactive sticky notes
http://voicethread.com
http://www.mywejit.com/?p=477
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http://twitter.com
Share what you are doing now
http://www.skype.com
Make video calls to the country of the language being studied
http://www.elluminate.com
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http://todaysmeet.com
http://www.wordchamp.com
http://beyondborders.edu.au/info/ Collaborate, achieve and create with
students from around the world
http://www.mywejit.com/?p=477
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http://cueprompter.com/
Free autocue service
Good for oral presentations when students are video recording
Online Survey
Tools
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themselves
http://www.surveymonkey.com/
http://kwiksurveys.com
http://www.ask500people.com
http://www.polleverywhere.com
Cluster Maps: http://www.clustrmaps.com
Can include map in a blog. Shows the locations of all visitors to your
page.
http://www.quickvotes.com
Other useful websites:
 http://lanesensei.blogspot.com
 http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au
 http://www.scootle.edu.au
 http://www.vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au
 http://www.elanguages.org
 http://www.epals.com
 The Hat: http://www.harmonyhollow.net/hat.shtml Automatically picks names from a list
 Cool Timer: http://www.harmonyhollow.net/cool_timer.shtml Can be used to count down or as an alarm or
stop watch
 http://www.360cities.net
 http://www.linguascope.com
 http://www.languagesonline.org.uk
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize
 http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au
 http://www.channel4learning.com/sites/extra
 http://www.boxoftricks.net
 http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com
 http://www.tes.co.uk
 http://www.diigo.com
 http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Home.do
 http://www.ipadio.com/
 http://www.worldlanguagespodcasting.com/
 http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory/Languages
 http://freelanguage.org/learn/foreign-language-podcasts
 http://www.japancast.net/
 http://learnjapanesepod.com/
 http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons
 http://www.hagipod.com/
 http://www.travelbu.gs/
 http://www.exploratorium.edu/
 http://www.googleartproject.com/
 http://www.classdojo.com/
 http://www.ustream.tv/
 http://www.memrise.com/home/
 https://www.learnboost.com/home
 File sharing: http://www.filesnack.com/
 http://www.showme.com/
 http://www.fotobabble.com/
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iPhone/iPad Apps for Languages
107 Favourite iPad Apps for K-8: http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/107-favorite-ipad-appsfor-k-8/
Apple Website: http://www.apple.com/au/education/apps/
App reviews: http://www.iear.org/
http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/blog/apple/
A collection of 1,800+ apps for education: http://www.appitic.com/
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http://www.appolicious.com/
http://freeappaday.com/
Use ‘Appbzr’ (free) to find “price-drops” or apps that are free for a limited period only
Useful Wikis
http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Learning+Spaces
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com
http://web2-4languageteachers.wikispaces.com/iPad+apps
http://ictinjapaneseclassroom.wikispaces.com/
http://loteelearning.wikispaces.com/
http://technolanguages.wikispaces.com