Tools

//Post your favorite tools for creative communication here.// //Download or print this list and use it to keep track of the passwords you create for each site// toc

=Creative Communication=

- 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

- Take any image, add a mouth to it, record something for it to say, and watch it become a moving conversationalist!


 * [|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, select your music, and then it will turn them into videos

- Create 3-min. audio files from your browser or mobile, publish, Tweet, etc.

- Record a short video w/ a webcam, select a card design, share via URL or Twitter

- Create embeddable timelines that include photos, audio, videos, etc.

- Upload photos, record a message, and share

[|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 [|Chinese Oral] - Example of an oral exam in Chinese [|Chinese Picture Description] - Example in Chinese of a student describing a photo from a play [|Francais 95's fotobabble] - Example in beginning French about a visit to an art museum [|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 [|Qual é o seu nome?] - Example in Portuguese of two people introducing themselves

- Free, multimedia poster-maker. Set up student accounts for educational use.
 * [|All About Me Project (Spanish)] Note that students can include their own voices!
 * [|Spanish Vida Sana Project]
 * [|Spanish 3 Instructions]
 * [|Joan Miró]
 * [|Pablo Picasso]
 * [|Les freres lumieres (French)]
 * [|Linguistics Poster (University Level)]Glogster can be useful for helping university students prepare research for poster sessions at conferences

Go Animate - 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]

- Record your speech, it turns it into music and even alters your voice in some cases

- Very simple, easy-to-use interface allows you to upload or draw images, add text, record your voice, then play and even embed your story

- Create collaborative timelines with text, photos, and videos. You can also choose a type of album, answer questions, and it will generate it for you

- Quickly create slide shows with captions, text, photos, and quiz questions
 * [|La famille] - Slideshow that uses possessive adjectives, family vocab., and famous people to create a fictional family in French
 * [|Fotos del espacio] - Slideshow of photos of black holes, supernovas, etc., labeled in Spanish
 * [|Polar Bear Quiz] - Interactive quiz about polar bears and their habitat
 * [|¿Vida o sida?] - Slideshow about AIDS in Spanish (note, some images may not be suitable for classroom use
 * [|Y ahora . . . qué?] - Slideshow about aging in Spanish

- Hold videoconferences with colleagues from around the world for free

- Allows you to audio narration onto a slideshow

- Free audio/video editing software you can download and use to make mashups

- Create movies
 * [|Camila y Gozo] - Sample conversation between 2 roommates made in Xtranormal (in Spanish)

- Click, record, share

- Photo stories that allow audio voiceovers and audio comments


 * [|Chinese Radicals]
 * [|Voicethread Project Sample in Spanish]

- Speaking avatars


 * [|Edgehill College Spanish Blog (Ben describe el medioambiente)]
 * [|German Voki]
 * [|Japanese Voki]
 * [|Voki poèmes]
 * [|Voki Project] - Helpful example of project directions for Spanish
 * [|Voki Project Samples] - In Spanish

- Create your own sound files, enhance your voice with effects, turn your voice into an instrument, save, and share

= Creative Writing =

- Create free photobooks from copyright-safe Flickr images and a template

- Create badges, billboards, CD covers, collages, cubes, jigsaw puzzles, magazine covers, mosaics, movie posters, trading cards, and more

- Students can create their own Peewee comics by mixing and matching backgrounds, characters, props, adding text, and printing their creations user:chericem1

- Create a hamburger diagram

- Create e-books that can be read by any e-reader



- Create your own magazines

- Free, online, collaborative suite of office tools (forms, presentations, spreadsheets, word processing)

- Create your own, digital magazines
 * [|Charoná]
 * [|Rik, el niño sin imaginación]

- 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!

- Create newsletters with photos from templates and host up to 10 online for free at any given time

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

- Create and share photo scrapbooks online (you can also print them)

- Create motivational posters by adding your own photos and text

[|My Brochure Maker] - Brochures

- Collaboratively "graffiti" by posting "stickies" on this online "wall" - Online journaling that allows you to attach photos

- Comic strip creation site that will take Chinese characters (and translate them) - courtesy of Aaron Bray - Very intuitive interface for creating booklets and brochures (similar to Issuu)

- Generate fake text messages

- Type in text, it generates a tag cloud you can print on t-shirts

- Electronic template for creating stories--allows linking to social media

- 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

- A phenomenal site with stock characters that will appeal to students and allows them to create truly original work user:chericem1

- Put your own text on a Post-it note image

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

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

- 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])

- Comic creation software

- Create fake Tweets using this generator

- Create flippable magazines or reports for free (from uploaded PDFs) - Free, online website creation

Wikispaces- Make your own wiki!


 * [|AFLTA Festival Wiki] - Publicize language festivals
 * [|Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks] - A wiki-book by Gary Cziko
 * Bishop Blogs
 * [|Chinese (Mandarin) - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks] - Not a very well developed text, but could be used for ideas.
 * [|Curriki - BrowseSearch] - Wiki designed for resource sharing that contains entries from multiple subject areas (365 entries for FL)
 * DHS Espanol
 * [|Deutsch 21] - Create curriculum projects across schools
 * Digitale-schule - Create separate pages for small group work to guide students in dividing up project responsibilities, gathering necessary information, and working through the writing process
 * Español 3: Wesley - Display individual student work
 * [|Ecce Romani Wiki / German Exchange] - Organize exchange trips
 * Flat Classroom Project - Develop transliteracy skills by engaging in the collaborative exploration of real-world issues through social technologies
 * FL Teaching Wiki - Have students collaboratively develop and display content as a resource for others (higher ed)
 * Flushing French
 * Fun/Chinese - Plan lessons and keep an organized repository of resources
 * Gramatica - Grammar lessons
 * Intercultural-it-aus - Converse with students from the target culture and [|discuss cultural perspectives] using chat, discussion forums, or Skype
 * International Collaborative Wiki - Jerusalem - Facilitate joint explorations of literature and culture (among students in Canada and Jerusalem in this case)
 * KWR-Deutschwiki - Create galleries of student work that demonstrate the growth of students' language skills
 * Learning Latin America
 * Le français, le FLE, les TICE . . . - Comics in the target language
 * LHSWLC: District Rubrics - Articulate curriculum across schools
 * LHSWLC: Spanish Cover Sheets - Articulate curriculum across sections
 * Loveland High School Professional Learning Communities Wiki Workspace - Facilitate professional learning communities
 * Madame Krause's Wiki - Cultural video
 * Madame Shackelford - Organize unit resources (L'Afrique Francophone)
 * MadameSpace
 * MIC USI français - Post assignment models
 * Mon Espace
 * NHS German - Post homework calendars
 * [|Park School Languages Wiki] - Collaboratively brainstorm grant proposals
 * [|Pormesfleurs Wiki] - Involve parents in reinforcing what their children are learning
 * Tarea - Listening exercises and comprehension questions
 * [|Toulouse Study Abroad Program] - Manage study abroad programs
 * [|Vermont FL Teachers Tech Resources] - Participate in professional world language associations
 * Waterford School Japanese - Post course syllabi, assignment instructions, and worksheets
 * [|We Are the World] - Develop interdisciplinary curriculum across grade levels
 * [|Wikiaula] - Automatically notify students and parents any time a page is updated using the RSS feature of the page.
 * Wikitaller - Post copies of presentations or video clips showed during class

- Create free flash websites

- Make your own tag (word) cloud media type="custom" key="4970681" ([|Why Wordle?])

- Create flippable magazines or reports for free (from uploaded PDFs)

- 3D, augmented reality pop-up books

> **Related Resources** > [|Why Wordle?]

= Critical Thinking =

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

- Lets you poll large groups of people so you can schedule meetings and events - Create infographics from templates or from scratch, then share them

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

- Use existing data or upload your own to create infographics from templates

- Create your own polls that students answer via text (extremely basic)

- 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

- Make a "to do" list, it helps you prioritize your tasks through a series of forced choices

- Allows threaded brainstorming

= Collaboration = //(See also PLN Tools below)//

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

- Free, online course management system that allows teachers to create classes, track student information, etc. - Free, online learning management platform that allows teachers to engage students in discussions, polls, and projects. Also has reporting features.

- Collaborative whiteboard

- Collaborative social community (a la Facebook) for students and teachers in

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- Free, online, collaborative suite of office tools (forms, presentations, spreadsheets, word processing)

- An online community similar to Twitter, but designed for use in education

- Create collaborative timelines with text, photos, and videos. You can also choose a type of album, answer questions, and it will generate it for you

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

- Hold videoconferences with colleagues from around the world for free

- Allows threaded brainstorming

// -// Create a customizable search page using icons

- Photo stories that allow audio voiceovers and audio comments
 * [|Chinese Radicals]
 * [|Voicethread Project Sample in Spanish]

- Video editing in a browser (collaborative if you pay)

Wikispaces- Make your own wiki!
 * [|AFLTA Festival Wiki] - Publicize language festivals
 * [|Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks] - A wiki-book by Gary Cziko
 * Bishop Blogs
 * [|Chinese (Mandarin) - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks] - Not a very well developed text, but could be used for ideas.
 * [|Curriki - BrowseSearch] - Wiki designed for resource sharing that contains entries from multiple subject areas (365 entries for FL)
 * DHS Espanol
 * [|Deutsch 21] - Create curriculum projects across schools
 * Digitale-schule - Create separate pages for small group work to guide students in dividing up project responsibilities, gathering necessary information, and working through the writing process
 * Español 3: Wesley - Display individual student work
 * [|Ecce Romani Wiki / German Exchange] - Organize exchange trips
 * Flat Classroom Project - Develop transliteracy skills by engaging in the collaborative exploration of real-world issues through social technologies
 * FL Teaching Wiki - Have students collaboratively develop and display content as a resource for others (higher ed)
 * Flushing French
 * Fun/Chinese - Plan lessons and keep an organized repository of resources
 * Gramatica - Grammar lessons
 * Intercultural-it-aus - Converse with students from the target culture and [|discuss cultural perspectives] using chat, discussion forums, or Skype
 * International Collaborative Wiki - Jerusalem - Facilitate joint explorations of literature and culture (among students in Canada and Jerusalem in this case)
 * KWR-Deutschwiki - Create galleries of student work that demonstrate the growth of students' language skills
 * Learning Latin America
 * Le français, le FLE, les TICE . . . - Comics in the target language
 * LHSWLC: District Rubrics - Articulate curriculum across schools
 * LHSWLC: Spanish Cover Sheets - Articulate curriculum across sections
 * Loveland High School Professional Learning Communities Wiki Workspace - Facilitate professional learning communities
 * Madame Krause's Wiki - Cultural video
 * Madame Shackelford - Organize unit resources (L'Afrique Francophone)
 * MadameSpace
 * MIC USI français - Post assignment models
 * Mon Espace
 * NHS German - Post homework calendars
 * [|Park School Languages Wiki] - Collaboratively brainstorm grant proposals
 * [|Pormesfleurs Wiki] - Involve parents in reinforcing what their children are learning
 * Tarea - Listening exercises and comprehension questions
 * [|Toulouse Study Abroad Program] - Manage study abroad programs
 * [|Vermont FL Teachers Tech Resources] - Participate in professional world language associations
 * Waterford School Japanese - Post course syllabi, assignment instructions, and worksheets
 * [|We Are the World] - Develop interdisciplinary curriculum across grade levels
 * [|Wikiaula] - Automatically notify students and parents any time a page is updated using the RSS feature of the page.
 * Wikitaller - Post copies of presentations or video clips showed during class

**PLN Tools**

- An online community for academics similar to Facebook

- Online social bookmarking (I prefer to bookmark in Diigo and retrieve through Delicious)

- An online community that allows you to engage in discussions; annotate, highlight, and archive webpages; and save and share bookmarks with like-minded colleagues

- An online community that allows you to chat with colleagues, create events, hold discussions, post links/photos/resources/videos, and share information with different groups of people

- A professional listserv with a circulation of over 6,000 K-12 teachers, researchers, scholars, and university professors from around the world involved in world language education

- [|Linked In in Plain English video]

- Create your own online community

- A series of "unconferences" for people interested in intersections between the humanities and technology

- Tool you can use to manage Facebook and Twitter feeds

- A great tool for professional networking and keeping up with the latest developments in your chosen fieldin 140 characters or less! ( - Use this search tool to find people to follow on Twitter)

People to follow:

__**Educational Technology**__

chrislehmann (Chris Lehmann - Administration) courosa (Alec Courous - Canada) dwarlick (David Warlick) gsiemens (George Siemens) hrheingold (Howard Rheingold - Digital Journalism) irasocol (Ira Socol - Michigan, Assistive Tech) kanter (Beth Kanter - Non-profits) lesliedavison (Leslie Davison) oldaily (Stephen Downes) olliebray (Ollie Bray - Scotland) timlauer (Tim Lauer) wfryer (Wesley Fryer) willrich45 (Will Richardson) zephoria (Danah Boyd)

__**Other**__

ben_fry (Ben Fry) - Computer Science, Design, Visualization mashable (Pete Cashmere) - Social Media Richard_Florida (Richard Florida) - Creativity stanfordeng (Stanford Engineering) - Design, Engineering, & Innovation yochaibenkler (Yochai Benkler) - Law, Social Media

__**World Language Education**__

bplindsey (Barbara Lindsey) ckendall (Cindy Kendall - Michigan) dlfulton (Lynn Fulton-Archer - South Carolina) gaugler (Kevin Gaugler - New York) icpjones (Isabelle Jones - England) jannachiang (Janna Chiang - Kentucky) jessmcculloch (Jess McCulloch - Australia) lkolb (Liz Kolb - Michigan) lrosen (Lauren Rosen) paulinobrener (Paulino Brener) skrashen (Stephen Krashen) tmsaue1 (Thomas Sauer - Kentucky) tonitheisen (Toni Theisen - Colorado) ZJonesSpanish (Zachary Jones)

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= **Tech Terms** =
 * [|Glosario básico inglés-español para usuarios de Internet]
 * [|Glosario Bilingüe de Internet]
 * [|Tech Terms]
 * [|More Tech Terms]

=More Cool Tech Tools=


 * Go to Tools for Research


 * Go to Tools for Professional Productivity


 * [|Applian FLV Player]
 * [|Audacity] - Excellent, free audio recording & editing software
 * [|Cmap] - Free social concept mapping tools that allow you to collaborate, attach documents and images, etc. (requires registration)
 * [|Google Earth] - Free program that allows you to see 3-dimensional views of the earth, cities, etc.
 * [|Google Talk] - Free chat program
 * [|iTunes] - Free multimedia player
 * [|Mindomo] - Free, collaborative concept-mapping
 * [|Photofunia] - Upload a photo, select from a comprehensive list of photo effects, then save, create an avatar, etc. Photos deleted every 2 hours
 * [|Second Life] - Free virtual world software
 * [|TinyChat.com] - Set up an ad-free, "disposable" chat room in one click. No registration required.
 * [|YouConvertIt.com] - Convert documents to PDFs while maintaining hyperlinks

[|50 Open Source Tools That Replace Popular Education Apps]