MaFLA+2013+Agenda



Dr. Cherice Montgomery, Brigham Young University, Provo, UTtoc

Presented at the: //[|MaFLA 2013 Conference]//

=**Session Description:**=

In order to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world, students need to develop skills that will enable them to learn collaboratively, think flexibly, communicate creatively, and evaluate their own productivity and performance. In this workshop, participants will use [|ACTFL’s 21st Century Skills Map], research-based pedagogical strategies, and a variety of free, web 2.0 tools to support students in developing these 21st Century skills.

=Workshop Agenda=

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Introductions



 * Goals of the session

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 * Materials are located on the wiki
 * Links to tools are in Symbaloo

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 * **Conceptual Foundations**
 * **//Definition of Technology://** It is NOT about the tools, it is a way of thinking.
 * //**Emerging technologies:**// Shifts in what it means to be literate
 * //**Literacy:**// Changes in definition of literacy = need for shifts in educators' perspectives
 * //**Three Ps of the Culture of Collaboration:**// Critical & creative communication, personal learning networks, social action
 * **C//ognitive Flexibility & Adaptability://** Need more than one tool in order to flexibly adapt to rapid pace of change and new information
 * //**Easy as 1, 2, 3:**// Register, Log in, Click around

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** Creative Communication **
(See also: //Creative Writing//)





- Click, record, share (No registration required)

- Text-to-speech: type your text in the box, select from m/f native speaker voices in many languages (including LCTLs), adjust speech rate and voice shaping, then download your file (No registration required)

- Record your speech, it turns it into music and even alters your voice in some cases (Registration required - Not on password list)

- Create your own sound files, enhance your voice with effects, turn your voice into an instrument, save, and share (Registration required - Not on password list)

- Take any image, add a mouth to it, record something for it to say, and watch it become a moving conversationalist! (No registration required)


 * ** [|Gargoyle with a headache (French)] **
 * [|La casa inteligente]
 * [|El sacapuntas del futuro]
 * [|Spoke German Story (Einstein)]
 * [|German 3 Architect]
 * [|Chinese (Guy)]
 * ** [|Chinese 12.2.11 (Giraffe)] **

- Upload photos, record a message, and share (Registration required)

[|Chinese Oral] - Example of an oral exam in Chinese [|Chinese Picture Description] - Example in Chinese of a student describing a photo from a play [|Japanese City/Town/Village] - Description of a Japanese community [|Japanese City Park] - Description of a Japanese park [|Meine familie] - Example in beginning German describing family [|Monkey King] - Example in fluent Chinese of storytelling
 * [|Adolescents Americans vs. Adolescents][|Francais] - Example in French comparing teenage life in the U.S. and France **
 * [|Adopt-a-Pet for Spanish 101] - Example in Spanish **
 * [|Francais 95's fotobabble] - Example in beginning French about a visit to an art museum**
 * [|Qual é o seu nome?] - Example in Portuguese of two people introducing themselves **

- Quickly create slide shows with captions, text, photos, and quiz questions (Registration required)

- Free, multimedia poster-maker. Set up student accounts for educational use. media type="custom" key="24136292" media type="custom" key="24136304"
 * ** [|All About Me Project (Spanish)] ** Note that students can include their own voices!
 * **Musica en español e italiano**
 * [|Pablo Picasso]

- Create animated videos from stock characters, images, music, and effects, or upload your own and lay them in tracks. Students have to type text into Word and then copy and paste it in order to get diacritical marks.
 * **[|Chinese III Dating Story]**
 * [|Episode 1 Scene 2: La tourmente]
 * [|Mi rutina]
 * [|Revolution Francaise]
 * [|Spanish Project]







Logic Puzzles




Debates/Human Graphing




Research
- Quickly post a question and watch as the votes change while students text their answers to the poll. You can also download your poll as a PowerPoint slide to include in a presentation (No registration required)

Synthesis & Analysis
- Create interactive infographics (with audio, charts, graphs, images, text, and video) from templates, then share them (Registration required)

- Search for images in the TL, then "annotate" them with audio, links, text, or videos (Registration required)

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Problem-based Learning
- Allows threaded brainstorming (No registration required)

- Input questions, it generates the QR codes for you

- Use this generator to create a target diagram, then save and share

- Choose a 2- or 3-circle Venn diagram, then change the labels, add notes, save, and share

Collaboration
- (No registration required)

- Simple chat room (Registration required)

- Collaboratively "graffiti" by posting "stickies" on this online "wall"

- An online community similar to Twitter, but designed for use in education (Registration required)

- Create your own booklists, reading groups, challenges, and reports (similar to Goodreads) (Registration required)

// - // Create a customizable search page using icons (Registration required)

Creative Writing
- Students can select illustrations from real children's picture book illustrators, then use them to illustrate their own, original stories. Diacritical marks must be cut and pasted in (via Word, for example)
 * French Examples
 * German Examples
 * Italian Examples
 * Spanish Examples

- Create your own magazines (Requires registration)

- Online journaling that allows you to attach photos and share

- Create badges, billboards, CD covers, collages, cubes, jigsaw puzzles, magazine covers, mosaics, movie posters, trading cards, and more (No registration required)

- Create free photobooks from copyright-safe Flickr images and a template (No registration required)

- Allows students or teachers to use comics and different characters with different emotional body language...You can create stories and apply text and thought bubbles. It goes up to 4 frames, but to do more than one, you can simply create 2 individual sets. It allows you to print and email them after!! But be sure you do! The site does not store them once you've closed the browser! (No registration required)

- Comic generator site lets you select from a number of different characters, change their emotions, overlap elements, rescale things, etc., in a variety of languages

- Upload your text (or the URL of your blog) to make tag clouds in all sorts of very detailed shapes

- Create a hamburger diagram (No registration required)

- Create fake Tweets using this generator (No registration required)

- Generate fake text messages (No registration required)

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- Free, online website creation

- A really nice site that lets you drag and drop characters, props, and even speed lines, etc. into comic frames. You can position things in front of or behind other things using the buttons at the bottom. Very intuitive and kid friendly. Be sure to click on all the buttons (Suggested by [|vidgan1])

Wikispaces

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Productivity & Performance
- Show specific segments of YouTube videos - Select specific segments from YouTube videos for viewing

- Copy and paste a YouTube link into the window. It allows you to view the video on a plain white or black screen without ads or suggested videos at the end.

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