Agenda+Tech+for+FLES

**Tech for FLES​ **
Young learners enjoy working with engaging multimedia as much as students in the upper grades. Realia and free presentation software help teachers and students to create learning materials that are culturally authentic. Using images and multimedia can also help teachers increase time on task and use of the target language. In this three-hour workshop, participants will develop their own personal collections of technology tools to use with language students.

Instructor:** Laura Franklin, Professor of French, Northern Virginia Community College Editor, MERLOT World Languages Twitter: lfranklin lfranklin@nvcc.edu
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 * Agenda**

MERLOT We registered, made Personal Collections and more. Don't forget to come back and dig deeper!!
 * 1.** **Finding Ready-made Free Online Resources**

Modern Foreign Languages Environment (Images and Podcasts) Don't miss the other parts of these resource pages. We have only scratched the surface.

[|PICS4Learning] REALIAProject Typeit.org(For typing accents)
 * 2.Other Image Databases: Free pics for your Voice Threads.**

Voice Thread Need help with Voice Thread? See Voice Thread 4 Educators: http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/
 * 3. Making Easy Standards-Based Projects**

A very nice example of Voice Thread in a FLES classroom: [] (Leslie Davison)


 * A Voice Thread about Networked Learning**
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Toondoo Need help with Toondoo? It has its own wiki!! Look at this before you make your next Toon: []

4. Other Software

Piclits

What is PicLits.com?
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

Wordle Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

5. Mini-Showcase Q&A

[|www.languagelinks2006.wikispaces.com] [|Worksheets]

This workshop is hands-on and product-oriented.