Mlle. Burt

Tools you can use!

December 26, 2007

Joyeux Noël!

Now that school is out, I’ve had some much needed time to “play” with some of the tools introduced to me by a fellow teacher, a friend from university. The learning never ends and sharing makes it all that much easier. I hope you’re as excited about these as I am!

The first tool I’m going to share with you, ESLvideo.com should prove to be very interesting. Students watch a simple video and are then quizzed about it. Keeping in mind resource-based learning, this tool is completely adaptable. Pull any video from youtube or the like and create your own quiz! My favorite gift this Christmas was a web cam and I can also see myself making my own silly videos to engage my students.

The second tool leaves paper lovers without any excuses. With DIIGO, you can now sticky note and high lite any page online to point out important passages. Imagine the possibilities – I wish I had this in university when I was writing papers! Be advised this is just one version of this tool, there are many other applications out there. Look around and find the one you like!

I recently joined Mefeedia where you can subscribe to podcasts on pretty much anything. There are many free podcasts in French specifically targeting French language learners. Those of you with ipods can download them and take them with you to school! Here is a little taste of what you can find:

Video Vocabulary #4

And finally, to those of you just using Google to search… I implore you – take a better look. Google has so many tools I don’t know where to start and if Google has it, chances are there are other providers out there as well. If you don’t like the format, there are others to be had. My students and I are fans of igoogle (set up your own start page) and I recently started an rss reader for myself so that I don’t have to go to 27 different pages to get what I want. Anything to save time!

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