2013-Rm5-Session2

Room 2: "Teaching with Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom" Lecturer: Patrick Moore pmoore@buffaloseminary.org
 * Session notes**

http://www.buffaloseminary.org/page.cfm?p=12&viewdirid=5250&start=31

At Buffalo Seminary, there are post-AP classes in debate, translation and production (for example)

Using [|Lenovo X Tablets].

Target areas
 * Production
 * Speaking
 * Writing
 * Comprehension
 * Listening
 * Reading

There is a mix of in-class technology and traditional approaches
 * In class discussion
 * Read text out loud
 * Repetition of teacher prompts
 * role playing games
 * debate

Used a pre-recorded video of a teacher due to her maternity leave. That's using technology! She saves her notes from the SmartBoard and posts them to her classroom site. Her students use [|Audacity] to record responses or over-dub Websites: http://www.euronews.com http://onethinginafrenchday.podbean.com/

Students use [|dropbox.com] and [|dropittome.com] to hand in assignments.

Overdubbing can be fun. Take an existing scene and then add your own dialog. Example: []

Doing the recordings at home helps remove some of the stigma of imitating a native accent.

Voicethread.com has an available educator license for free [|here]: https://voicethread.com/support/howto/Account_Types/VT_Educator/ Example: [|www.Voicethread.com/?#b4202285.i21455913]

You could then quiz students by having them listen to other students' work and responding about their peers.

For upper level, http://www.rtve.es/ http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html

Gamification of Language! http://lyricstraining.com/

Reading Comprehension
http://noticias.univision.com http://es.answers.yahoo.com