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Making technology work for you. Tips & time savers for the technophobic. Don’t be a slave to technology. Go animate!. Animating their work – bringing to life Creating cartoons & movie strips – paraphrasing and summarising, using familiar language in a new context - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Making technology work for you

Tips & time savers for the technophobic..

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Don’t be a slave to technology....

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Go animate!

•Animating their work – bringing to life•Creating cartoons & movie strips – paraphrasing and summarising, using familiar language in a new context•Creating avatars – confidence builder!•Skype

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www.voki.com

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Turn a text into……

Storyboard • Bullet points• Conversation• Vocabulary list

Do all of this conversely to turn them into a text

www.toondoo.com

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www.sparklebox.com

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Activities for classroom variety

• Promote spontaneous talk• Giving pupils a pseudonym•Giving opportunities to manipulate language for their own purposes•Giving pupils opportunities to extend their own language use

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http://www.brendenisteaching.com/gen/namecards/

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Use ‘PVA’ –make it stick...

• Pigloo• Bebe Lily –http://www.jukebo.com/bebe-lilly• Virelangues – letter string examples• http://lps13.free.fr/ - music and sound/letter

work.• Audacity – record your own focused listening or

get them to do it!• http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/hotpot/exos/in

dex.htm - doing lots of practice

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On the ball (tennis, foot or other...)

• Using a range of real materials about current issues

• Stimulate debate using simple frameworks• Extend vocabulary through wider reading• Word and sentence level work to help language

skills • Good opportunity for ICU• http://www.lessignets.com/signetsdiane/calendrie

r/index.htm - ideas for every day

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www.teteamodeler.comPupils can:

•Question words•Find an example of...•Highlight tenses•Cognates•Key words to look up•Compose questions for a partner•Compose T/F phrases

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http://newsap.jpwww.newsmap.jp

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www.jedessine.com

www.lirecreer.com

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Don’t re-invent the wheel

• TES resources• Blogs• MFL resources• ALL• Linguanet• Teachers TV• Primary Languages

Mailing lists and user groups bring you the information!