FSL+Projects

**TECHNOLOGY TOOLS IN THE FRENCH CLASSROOM ** Check out more great ideas at Technology4Kids, a wiki by Shell Terrell.

Participate in a Today's Meet online discussion, ask questions, or backchannel during a workshop.   Wallwisher  Click here to add your comments about technology tools.  Click here to see a sample wall for students on the topic of "Les Passe-temps". Click here to introduce yourself to the class. media type="custom" key="23323902"

Another online collaboration board is Linoit. Here is a sample board.

__**Collaborative Writing Applications **__ Etherpad Lite Here is a sample document. Pirate Pad is another similar application. Google documents also provide a collaborative writing experience.

 Voki  Here is an example of a Voki from my French wiki. They are easy to embed on web pages.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Blabberize <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Use these pix to experiment with. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Photobabble - Upload a photo, record your voice and share. media type="custom" key="6567663"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Glogster - make interactive posters using text, images, sound, video or other media on any topic. Education accounts are available. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> (Basic accounts are free. Premium accounts are available at a cost.) Students are able to share their glogs on many different <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> social networking sites.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Glogster examples - les animaux, ma famille , Je me présente

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Fables de la Fontaine <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">French Children's Stories <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tintin Simply Scripts - find the scripts for many popular movies
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> WORD CLOUDS **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> - Wordle, Tagxedo
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Text Sources **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">MAKE YOUR OWN F ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 1.5;">LASHCARDS **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;"> - students and teachers can make flashcards on any topic for study and practice. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Students can share their stacks using social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) or they can be posted on websites. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Stacks can be sent to an iPod touch or an iPhone too.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Study Stack - see stack I made on using aller with places. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> See other stacks already made by French teachers.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Other sites include Flashcard Exchange, Flashcard Machine, Quizlet, and Study Blue.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Also check out Class Tools, Discovery Education, and Tools for Educators to make other types of interactive French games, quizzes, activities, and diagrams.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">You can make and print out a game board about body parts from Tools for Educators. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Here is a Fakebook account of Marie Antoinette en français.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Comics are another great way for FSL students to express themselves, especially since the text is always short <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> and therefore less intimidating than other forms of writing.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">COMIC ****<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">S **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Comic Life ** is a program found on all Mac computers. It is simple and easy to use. Students will need to collect pictures <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> using one of the methods discussed below (see IMAGES) to use in their comics.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Comic Life Example - La famille <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Bitstrips for Schools <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Finding images for students to use while maintaining their integrity as good digital citizens is a challenge. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What can you do? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• students can take their own pictures using digital cameras (home or school, put on CD or memory stick) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• students can draw pictures and scan them or photograph them <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• students can use a copyright free website to find pictures <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(Check out Free Teacher Clip Art, Classroom Clip Art , Pics4Learning , PhotoPin, Compfight , Ookaboo , <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Free Photo Bank , School Clip Art , Find Icons, Photos8 or <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Photopedia. )
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">IMAGES **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Also, check out <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Creative Commons, Wylio, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Wikimedia Commons. Here students can find images to use in projects where permission has been given <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">to remix the image or adapt it for use in projects. Read the fine print carefully!

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">DIGITAL STORYTELLING ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Digital storytelling is defined as "a short, first-person video-narrative created by combining recorded voice, still and moving images, and music or other sounds." (Center for Digital Storytelling )

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Digital Storytelling ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> uses computers to create media-rich stories and the internet to share those stories creating communites of common concern on a global scale." //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(@http://www.nextexit.com/dap/whatis.html ) //

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> The following programs can be used for this purpose: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Voicethread Allows students to post comments. media type="custom" key="10020449" align="right" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Keynote - add text, images and other effects to your slides, record a narration, then export as a Quicktime movie. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> iPhoto PicLits <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Bookemon <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Picaboo Thinglink

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Animoto (You can only make 30 second videos for free. Also allows students to comment on each other's videos.) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> media type="custom" key="10020391"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">PODCASTING ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> @Podcasting allows students to record their voices, then to add music and sound effects that enhance their presentation. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Fluency, pronunciation, intonation, phrasing and other reading and speaking skills are a focus during recording.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> The Garageband application is available on Macintosh computers as well as being an iPad app. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Audacity is a free download for PC's. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">AudioBoo is available both on the web and as an iPod/iPad app. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

Podcasting examples: media type="file" key="peter & brady french.m4a" width="240" height="40" French newscast Vocabulary practice

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> BLOGS AND WIKIS ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> What is the difference between a blog and a wiki? Click here to find out.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Click here to see my French wiki. You can use Wikispaces or PBWorks to host your wiki. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Click below to see an example of a blog. You can use Wordpress or Blogger to host your blog. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Blogger example <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Wordpress example - English and Wordpress example - French

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teachers can create surveys or forms for students to answer or students can write their own documents and collaborate together. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tes Choses Favorites <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Les Franco-fêtes - spreadsheet <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jeu de Vocabulaire - collaborative chart
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">GOOGLE DOCS **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Find ready-made activities at SMART Exchange and Crickweb.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">SMARTBOARD ACTIVITIES **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">VIDEOTAPING ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> @iMovie - French sports newscast assignment Creaza | We Video |

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">SOCIAL NETWORKING ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Edmodo | Twiducate | Twitter| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">ClassTools - fake sms, fakebook, etc. | Facebook