LANGWITCHES: The Magic of Learning Languages through Technology

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LANGWITCHESThe Magic of Learning Languages
through Technology

• Silvia Tolisano
• San Jose Episcopal Day School
• FFLA 2006

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• Enhancing your current instruction through
  technology. Instruction driven by curriculum.
  Technology just a tool.
• Must- Haves and Nice to have Software
  Peripherals
• Personalizing Instruction through Technology
• Play Games Have Fun

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Software

• Graphic Tools
• Adobe Photoshop / Gimp/ Google Picasa
• Presentation
• Open Office
• http//www.openoffice.org/
• PowerPoint
• Blog
• http//www.blogger.com
• Digital Photos Video
• Microsoft PhotoStory
• Windows Movie Maker
• Logitech Video Effects (comes with certain
  Logitech webcam) models

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Peripherals

• Printer
• Scanner
• Digital Camera / Digital Camcorder/ Camera
  Cellphones
• Web Cam
• MP3 Player

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PowerPoint - Storybooks

• Accommodations
• Write your own
• Introduction
• Ex. The Sad Night by Sally Schofer Mathews
• Ex. There was a woman who swallowed a fly

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PowerPoint - Puzzles

• Ex. Body Parts

• Ex. Where am I?

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PowerPoint - Games

• Typhoon
• Who wants to be a Millionaire?
• Jeopardy
• Hollywood Squares
• Free Downloads http//jc-schools.net/tutorials/P
  PT-games/

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Typhoon
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Who wants to be a Millionaire?
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Jeopardy
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Hollywood Squares
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PowerPoint - Assessment

• Ex. How many dogs? (Pre-K 1st Grade)

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Digital Photography

• Digital Storytelling
• Vocabulary Flashcards
• Cultural Awareness
• Electronic Cookbook

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Digital Video

• Software
• Microsoft Photostory (Free download)
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalph
  otography/photostory/default.mspx
• Ex. Brown Bear, Brown Bear
• Windows MovieMaker (Comes already with your PC)
• Ex. TPR Verbs

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MP3 Players

• Country interviews
• Geography Quiz
• Current Events
• Cooking lessons
• Word of the week
• Sound-seeing Tours
• Reportage of cultural event in your hometown

• Lectures
• Photo Slideshows
• Podcasts/ Vodcasts
• Teacher created
• Student created
• Downloaded elsewhere
• Music Movie Archive

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Download Examples Templates

• To download examples and templates go to
• http//www.langwitches.org/workshops/index.htm