Shauna N辿ro teaches French Immersion, Core French, and Spanish at cole Kwantlen Park Secondary and discusses how she uses technology in the classroom to increase student engagement, empower students, and support differentiated learning by providing a variety of apps and activities that appeal to different learning styles. She shares examples of using apps, websites, videos, and other online resources to develop students' oral production, cultural knowledge, and language skills in French and Spanish.
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Teach Using Technology in MFL Classroom
1. Shauna N辿ro
French Immersion (Fran巽ais Langue et Sciences Humaines), Core French and
Spanish teacher at cole Kwantlen Park Secondary, SD36
@MmeNero
mmenero.edublogs.org
mmenero.wordpress.com
Using Technology in the Spanish and French
Classroom
Link to this presentation:
3. Why do I use technology in class?
To increase student engagement
To empower the digital native student with using what they
know (technology)
To encourage students to use technology as a tool for
learning
To give choices to students through a variety of apps can
appeal to different learning styles
Allows for differentiated learning so that
students of all levels can be successful
4. Ultimately it is the learner who learns,
and the new applications certainly place
more power in their hands, albeit that
they are still in need of support with how
to use these in educational contexts.
(Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age, Sharpe et al 2010)
5. LANGUAGE TEACHERS ON TWITTER TALK ABOUT THEIR
EXPERIENCE WITH TECHNOLOGY!
@rolat We integrate technology to encourage recording conversations for oral
communication & explaining Students thinking orally on all subjects
@msewen uses them for student success and ease of use. He recently used iPad
dictation for a student who cannot write (a great example of empowering the
student)
@whitmore_c uses them to record themselves before doing a presentation in
FSL, they work on their pronunciation before having to present. They love it.
@beverleybunker Have done blogging with my grade 7 late frimm kidsits
been a great experience!
6. Nathalie Roy (
@NathalieR71):
束 To engage a student, it
is important to remember
not to 束 overload 損
becaue not all students
like using technology to
learn. 損 Translated by a Tweet sent
to me Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012
9. Students can text or send answers online to
open-ended or multiple choice questions
Free account is limited to 40
answers, but unlimited number of
surveys
POLL EVERYWHERE:
Another way to 束listen損
and communicate
10. Students can practise
their pronunciation using
this fun and interactive
website. Play with
Francophone accents!
francophones!
Text to Speech website: playing
with Avatars
11. In my Spanish class last semester, some
students used the iPads and the application
PuppetPals HD Directors Cut to cut out
characters and 束play損 with them to talk
in scenes from a Hispanic region.
See my blog for examples of this
project:
http://mmenero.wordpress.com/espanol/
LA FAMILIA
MODERNA
VIAJEN
Opportunity to assess the language that
they acquired and their cultural knowledge
at once.
More importantly, I was able to assess their
oral production as it gave me the chance to
listen and listen again to how they were able
to pronounce the words that they had
learned all semester.
12. Examples of Voicethread
projects by A.I.M. teacher
Sylvia Duckworth
(@sylviaduckworth)
Only 3 free projects for each account, with
the iPad use the app Pix N Tell
Voicethread: developing oral production
13. Use this site to
communicate what
students have
learned. Create a
visual Word Cloud to
incite discussion in
class.
Wordle
14. Ideal for reviewing vocabulary: oral and written
Jeopardy: http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/
15. Use the language they know to discuss the
content
Teach idiomatic expressions
French short films
Les courts-m辿trages
La leyenda de estan payaros + worksheet
Short films
Jattendrai le suivant
16. Teaching to their interests:
Using Disney and Ast辿rix tools
Have students plan a trip
Use their ressources in the
target languages!
17. TRE: Use the song Au bal masqu辿
Adjectifs Worksheet
(normally sold on TPT) Activity Worksheets
(normally sold on TPT)
18. Beginners Spanish?
Some vids to introduce the language to your
students!
Military sounding
alphabet
El alfabeto
Buenos d鱈as, tarde y
noche
22. Teacher worksheets depending on
DELF levels (A1-B2)
Teach using the French culture
This site was the inspiration for my
Alors on danse project
Fiches: Activit辿 et description du projet
Crit竪res du projet
TV 5 Monde:
a great website for Core French teachers
23. Pick a region and the activities which go with it
(D辿butant, Interm辿diaire, Avanc辿)
a bouge au Canada
24. Conte-moi
100 Qu辿becois qui
ont fait le 20e
si竪cle
Il 辿tait 1820
Il 辿tait une
histoire
Le mus辿e virtuel
du Canada
Le mus辿e
dOrsay
Teaching about the Francophone World
Here are some of my favourite sites:
25. A great selection
of activities and
sites by theme for
the Core French
teacher
Online resources:
Sylvia Duckworths blog for FSL
(@sylviaduckworth)
26. Sunny Earth Academy playlist
Commercials in Spanish (doc added with
videos and teacher explanations)
Senor Jordans videos (explanation of
grammar, interactive and interesting by
level)
Latin Grammys (you would have to find the
artists on YouTube since the US blocks us)
Spanish videos
27. Ressources vues sur Twitter
Les clips vid辿o de Mme Nero
Bandes annonces francophones
L o湛 je temmenerai (clips de TF1)
La musique de la Francophonie
Clips sur lapprentissage (en fran巽ais)
Forvo: autre site de prononciation (suggested by @Traciepod)
Paige Kees French Teacher Pinterest Board
French Teachering Pinterest Board
Other online resources to browse for your
classes:
28. Share links easily!
BITLY : reduce the length
of a URL
Copy and paste the link to
create a direct link to the site
Reduces mistakes by
students = less waste of
class time
Useful Sites for the Language
Learner and Teacher
30. My blog for Exceptional Student Work
Annie Reichhoffs
Classroom Site:
Activities and examples of
exceptional student work
(@MmeReichhoff)
Share digital work online!