scolt 2 hour

Technology and World Languages Standards –

Engaging 21st century students

SCOTL 2011- March 11th, 2011

Catalina Bohorquez and Michelle OlahSeminole Co. Public Schools, Florida

World Languages Technology Consultantswww.wltechconsultants.com

About us…

What skills do today’s students need?

1. If you can text, you can wiffiti!

2. Send a text message to: 878843. At the beginning of your message type

@wif56005 and then your answer.

• Critical Thinking

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Creativity

Partnership for 21st century Skills

The 4 “C’s”

ACTFL World Languages Standards

How can we teach our languages AND incorporate the skills that our students

need to be successful in the 21st century?

Using technology in the World Languages

classroom:• Enhances student creativity

• Allows students to communicate outside of the classroom

• Provides opportunities for student collaboration

• Requires students to think critically to evaluate resources

• Engages and motivates students

Don’t start from scratch…

Start with a “classic” that you

love…

Then “re-design” it into something exciting and

new!

“Classic” projects transformed with web 2.0

Language Standard 4: Presentational

Speaking:

The student will be able to present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners on a variety of topics in a culturally appropriate context in the target language.

Turn to someone near you…

What are some “Classic” speaking presentations that you use currently?

Bonus Tool – Classtools

Some of our “revamped” Classics

New Web 2.0 Family Projects

Beginning German - http://ed.voicethread.com/?#u86836

Spanish Collaborative Family Project http://ed.voicethread.com/share/235029/

Intermediate Spanish – Grammar focus http://ed.voicethread.com/share/8974/

Web tool: Voicethread

New Web 2.0 “About Me” Projects

Bonjour. Je m'appelle.. Je viens....D'où viens-tu?

Chinese

Web tool: Voxopop

Voki Speaking Avatar

Language Standard 5: Presentational Writing:

The student will be able to present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of readers on a variety of topics in a culturally appropriate context in the target language.

Turn to someone near you…

What are some “Classic” writing presentations that you currently use?

Random Name Chooser

http://www.aschool.us/moodle-scripts/random-name.php

New Web 2.0 Writing Projects

Web tool: Storybird

Storybirds are short, visualstories that you make withfamily and friends to share

and (soon) print.

http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/

Your turn…How could you use Storybird in Presentational

Writing?

Mixbook

http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/los-cahorritos-2831166

http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/all/libro-digital-4528131 

http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/mi-amigo-y-yo-4793813 

http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/spanish-class-project-3976588

 http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/education/pablo-neruda-898736

Wallwisher

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/updatingwithtech

Examples of wallwishers…

Go Animate/Toon Doo

http://goanimate.com/movie/0FZ_aoErA988/1

Language Standard 1: Interpretive Listening :

The student will be able to understand and interpret information, concepts, and ideas orally from a variety of culturally authentic sources on a variety of topics in the target language.

Lang Media

The site aprovides authentic materials depicting differences in regional dialects and language-usage among speakers of the more commonly

taught languages worldwide.

Audio Lingua

Culture Standard 6:

The student will be able to use the target language to gain knowledge and demonstrate understanding of the relationship among practices, products, and perspectives of cultures other than his/her own and will be able to discuss and analyze cultural practices within the political, economic, social, educational, religious, and artistic realms in the target language in order to determine their global significance.

Tag Galaxy

A little bit of Culture Every Day!

Travel Videos - Geobeats – 2 Minute Travel Videos (English)

Movie Theaters (vocabulary, money, time, dates)•Cinéma Gaumont Champs-Elysées Marignan-Paris

•Cinemark – México Newspaper headlines from around the World

YouTube, TeacherTube, SchoolTube

Teacher Bonus Websites

www.classtools.netwww.20q.net Virtual Dice

We are already 10 years into the 21st Century

The “Future” is NOW

What can you do TODAY to help prepare your students for

TOMORROW?

One WOW and one WONDER…

Catalina Bohorquez and Michelle OlahWorld Languages Technology

Consultantswww.wltechconsultants.com