Integrating Technology in the Second Language Classroom

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Integrating Technology in the Second Language
Classroom

• Maud P. Clark

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Sunset Elementary School

• DCPS first Magnet School

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Then
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Now
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Overview

• How can technology enhance the language
  classroom?
• How can teachers prepare themselves?
• What are some examples of technology use in the
  language classroom?

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The technology enhanced language classroom allows
you to

• Access valuable teacher resources
• Access authentic materials
• Provide students with real life experiences
• Create a student centered classroom
• Address all learning styles
• Use all communication modes
• Integrate the five Cs of the National Standards
  for Foreign Language Education

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How Can Teachers Prepare Themselves?

• ITTS training schedule and registration
  http//oit.dadeschools.net/itts/schedule2.htm
• DCPS Technology Training
• Calendar http//calendar.dadeschools.net/
• OIT workshops
• On site training opportunities
• On line training Mind Leaders http//oit.dadescho
  ols.net/itts/mindleaders/index.htm or
  http//portal.dadeschools.net/campus/onlinecourses
  .htm
• On line training for French Teachers
  http//www.ardecol.ac-grenoble.fr/educabus/formati
  ondebutant/index.htm

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Technology at your service

• Audio and video tapes
• Digital cameras
• Educational software
• Web cams and Video conferencing
• Smart boards
• Computers

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Teacher resources

• Easy access to official documents

• Access teaching materials

cartables

• Poetry, Music, books
• Medias

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Student Activities

• Email communication Pen pal projects
• Research topics for projects
• analyze a movie
• Write for website publication
• Write a collective novel
• Web quests
• Books on line un souterrain denfer
• Participate in a web challenge
• Read interactive stories

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Student Activities Practicing skills on line

• Reading
• Le mot témoin
• Pour les petits
• Grammar
• Writing Atelier des poètes
• Vocabulary
• FLE
• Vocabulaire illustré
• Lexique FLE
• Peinturelle
• Jeu de loie
• Bonjour de France, Educaserve , Courance

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• New technologies provide easy access
• to target language communication and culture
• Authentic resources that make the second language
  classroom a better place to learn
• Teachers need to further their professional
  development in the field of technology to
  integrate these new tools in a meaningful way
• More links on the Teachers Corner of
  http//teachers.dadeschools.net/mclark
• Share your experience in the field of technology