MFL Widgets & Wizardry

30+ ideas for the language classroom

http://iconscrabble.com

Tu voisUn vase

Ou Deux têtes?

Le nezLa boucheLe menton

Une jeune femme

ou

une vieille dame?

Tu vois

un lapin

ou

un canard?

Build your wildselfhttp://www.buildyourwildself.com/

Also Sonic character creator http://devbook.com/charactercreators/sonic/

Mr Picassohead

• www.picassohead.com • anime character maker • sonic character creator • gamepuma character creator

Countdown timerwww.online-stopwatch.com A nice collection of timers. Includes countdown bomb!

www.classtools.netHas tunes you can use to countdownAlso : name/word randomizers, hidden image

www.classtools.net

FakebookFake Tweet Great for project work – a celebrity, a town, a

character in a novel, play or film

Linguascope widgets

[Log in needed]

Countdown timers DiceScoreboardbingo

Word /name/phrase picker

http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector/

Google primary ict random name selector

Works best on Chrome

www.barryfunenglish.com

Look under ‘tools’ for scoreboards. One of the few free resources available

Sandfields Comp IWB resources

• ‘Bingo in’ mad• Click clock• Fridge magnet• Sketchpad for Pictionary

http://www.npted.org/schools/sandfieldsComp/games/Pages/default.aspx

Talking points Google: ‘unusual pictures’; check before use!

Pause n’ play videos

Favourite at the momentGerman:Edeka – supergeilRowan Atkinson singt das Europalied

French:Evian roller babies

Mr Bean – Packing for Holidayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0dr_juOiI

Popplet

http://popplet.com/app/index.php#/460907

Easy diagram creator

You can include youtube videos

Babysitten http://popplet.com/app/index.php#/1283283

blockbusters

• Use http://www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/quiz-busters

Google: Star wars text crawl creator

You can input some text and this site converts it to a STAR WARSstyle

opening titles sequence

Easy prompterhttp://www.easyprompter.com/

Paste text into the box and it turns into a broadcast-style autocue

Sample Text:So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

Zap reader

www.zapreader.com Select ‘Reader’Paste a bunch of text in to the boxHit ‘zap it’The page will display one word at a timeYou can adjust the speed and the number of words displayed at any one time (up to 5)

Good for reading practice (phonics)Information recallTranslation / comprehensionPredict next wordRepeat/ recall last word

Sample Text:So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

This is a wordle (wordle.net) how do we use it? See also Tagxedo

www.wordle.net

Bart’s Chalkboard

Next time, I must remember to get this

right……3 things I learnt this

lesson

Why not use Bart’s Blackboard on a worksheet or the IWB

Here’s a question I want to ask the

teacher/ the class

Here’s the background

Storybird & bookbox

• some lovely illustrated books in French Spanish German

• Good for a language club

Who needs expensive & fiddly e-voting systems?

Multiple choice / mini-plenary smiley kit

Download the ‘kit’ here: http://verulamvle.typepad.com/vets/2011/11/smileys-for-mini-plenaries.html

Cartoon creators

Go Animate - Make animations using a range of characters & props. The pupils love it. Drag and drop to create scenes. Allows text, but not speech. See examples here and here

• Toondo - cartoon strip creator- Cartoon strip creator. Drag and drop. A good way to reinforce a topic.

http://www.toondoo.com/ Example here

‘wheeldecide’

http://wheeldecide.com/

A wheel spinner which you can customize with any number of segments and contents

You could add words, pupil’s names, topic categories

Top 10shttp://www.aneki.com/lists.html

Go out of Powerpoint

slideshow into edit mode &

move the rectangle around

Online voice recorders

• Audioboo Easy Audio clip recorder- just click, record and send.

Click the icon above to hear my sample. Get pupils to do a quick audio message and send it to your email address (your network techies can set one up a shadow (proxy) one for you)

• Vocaroo Easy audio recorder There’s a more flexible one called AudiopalSoundcloud lets you store longer bits of audio

Thinglink

Make an image interactive

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/428890774537502720

Fotobabble

Upload a photo and add your audio commentaryHere ’s an example (year 8 German) Ideal for topic work at any level

Voki – talking avatar creator• Click the Borat sample. Text to speech, lots of

characters, voices and languages. Selected pupils come to the front and create a target language Voki message to the class

Pupil A inputs a description about another pupil. Class have to guess who it is. Winner takes over.

Selected pupils create a plenary Voki of the 5 most useful words from the lesson for the rest of the class to guess

Teacher creates a Voki containing a starter activity or a message which contains the lesson objective

One motion drum machine

Click on the image to see it in action – If you’re feeling brave, try the alphabet song

Gap fill generator

http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-gapfill-generator.html

Google: random idea + English + Gapfill generator

Blabberize

• http://blabberize.com/view/id/794856

Upload any image, customize the mouth, record a message and watch the lip-sync in action.

Works best with cartoon faces but you can try celebs too.

Dice

I get up

I wash

I eat

I get dressed

I brush my teeth

I go to bed

In the garden

In the kitchen

In the garage

On the balcony

In my room

In the school

With my dog

With my cat

With my horse

With my two goldfish

With my mouse

With my tortoise

For dice rollers – see http://dice.miniwebapps.net/Also Linguascope widgets & IWB software e.g. Active Inspire

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More dice ideas

Number each pupil in your class 1-12Go round again, so in a class of 24 you’ll have two pupils who are number 1 etcRoll 2 dieThe pupils with that number stand up and answer

Divide class into two teams - Ask a question then, if they answer correctly, roll one dice for number of points

‘cricket’: - roll a dice, then ask a question worth that number of points. So a six would be a really hard question, a one would be an easy one

Verb conjugation

quizlet

• Make you own sets of flashcards – audio enabled !

• Ma ville:

http://quizlet.com/26983558/flashcards

Textivate

£35

Copy and paste text

Choose sequencing or gap fill

Sample Text:So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

Text mechanic + reverse text generator

• puts Use the words online different a a in which scrambler sentence order an text of

use an online text scrambler which puts the words of a sentence in a different order• txet sdrawkcab ecudorp ekil sgniht rehto od

uoy stel moc.esacelggot.wwwwww.togglecase.com lets you do other things like produce backwards text.

http://www.rjwoerheide.com/scrambletest.phpGoogle: rjwoerheide + text scrambler

Text Srambler

Lingro

• Import a foreign language webpage address • each word becomes clickable• You can click on the word for the meaning and store it

in a word list • It will generate a set of flashcards of the words clicked

Suggestions:

Amazon.deAmazon.frTV: la grille des émissionsCinema + Rouen+ programme

Subway BelgiqueMcDonalds FranceSubway FrancePizzas `a emporter

Using Authentic materials

www.allocine.fr

funny.pho.tophotobox

fodeyimagechef

Caption generators

Also: Glass giant

Keep calmomatic

jon.meier@verulam.herts.sch.uk

Thanks for Listening