TWO COOL TOOLS

WEBSITES AND OTHER RESOURCES TO BE USED IN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

APPLICATION	WEBSITE	WHAT DOES IT DO? WHAT CAN I DO WITH IT?
Monday, July 25		Two cool tools Wallwisher and Root Zone Database July 26.pptx Details Download 67 KB
Wallwisher	www.wallwisher.com.	interactive bulletin board that participants can post "sticky notes" to.
Root Name Database	http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/	use this to find the country code extension on the ends of websites. This will let you know from which country the website originates, which could be helpful when searching for news information from specific places.
Tuesday July 26		Two Cool Tools Jing July 26 2011.pptx Details Download 485 KB
Jing	http://www.techsmith.com/jing/	Create screencasts (photos and video) of what is happening on your computer, upload to the internet and share with others.
Wednesday July 27		2003 PP Two Cool Tools Answer Garden Doodle on VoiceThread July 27.ppt Details Download 3 MB
Answer Garden	http://answergarden.ch link to this wiki's Answer Garden	Pose a brief question, and people who have the link to your Answer Garden can respond (briefly). Very plain and simple interface. Answers show up on a wall in Wordle-like format, but text does not change size according to frequency.
Doodling on video in VoiceThread	http://voicethread.com/?#q+doodling.b21651.i122786	After uploading a video to VoiceThread, you can have students “doodle” on it while they record their comments. Pause video playback while still recording comment
Thursday July 28		Two Cool Tools ICDL and Audacity audiobooks July 28.ppt Details Download 4 MB
International Children's Digital Library	http://en.childrenslibrary.org/	Searchable website with many children’s books scanned Books available in all languages that we teach at Maret, although the selection varies in quality and quantity. Advanced Search tool allows you to find books that are translated into multiple languages.
Using Audacity to record an audiobook		Could combine reading of books in target language with audio recording in Audacity. Potentially used to help with pronunciation and intonation when speaking, or to assess students' oral expression.
Friday July 29		Two Cool Tools (last one!) older version of PP.ppt Details Download 2 MB
Glogster	www.edu.glogster.com	Create virtual, interactive, multimedia posters to be used either as tools of instructions or as a means of student assessment. Completed glogs are embeddable in Haiku as well.
Us! (our wikispaces page)	no link needed, you're on it now.	This wiki was authored and edited by all members of the ICIE group to pose questions, offer answers, and share information. It is an ever-evolving "document"
Dragontape	www.dragontape.com (This one is not on the PowerPoint)	Website that allows you to create "mixtapes" of any video content, both on your computer and on the internet. Videos that are "dropped" into the timeline can be chopped up and inserted at different intervals, allowing for a "remix" of the media to be created by the user.