Web+2.0+Tools

**The effective Use of Technology to improve student achievement in learning languages **

 * Making Connections - exploring new learning environments
 * Facilitating Shared Learning - joining communities of learners beyond the classroom
 * Creating supportive learning environments - personalising learning
 * Enhancing opportunities to learn - virtual experiences, tools that save time, take learning further

[|5Cs] - Communication, culture, connections, comparisons, communities

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[|Digital Learning Objects]
[|Photo album: school life 1 [French]] Look through a photo album showing everyday life of schoolchildren in France. See photos of activities such as a camp during the school holidays, an after-school dance class, and getting results of the baccalaureate exams. Match each photo to a brief description of the activity. Answer a question about each activity. Complete a quiz that includes questions on all of the photos. This learning object is one in a series of six objects suitable for middle primary to lower secondary level. [|My family [Japanese]] Meet a Japanese family. Learn each person's age and family relationship. Identify relationships in a family tree. Meet other families and answer simple questions about family composition. Learn common numbers. Listen to spoken Japanese and look at translations in Hiragana, Romaji and English. SA learning object suitable for lower to middle primary level.

Blogging
[|Blogging] - Thanks to Milford School ESOL Blog and Gordana Stanojevic [|Sunnybrae Normal School’s hand message project on their school blog] - teacher Stephen Gordon

**Wikis**
Wikis Collaborative Web sites that allow users to change the content of pages easily — can help students share information.A wiki is a dynamic communication tool for those who aren't highly technical. Collaborating on projects via a wiki is much more efficient than sending around email attachments with multiple edits and revisions [|Exploring the World of Wikis]

Podcasting
[|Podcasting] - Thanks to Sunnybrae School [|Korero Pt England (KPE)] [|Barcelona Young Learners] - Podcast on blog [|Spanish customs and traditions]- podcast

Voice Thread
[|VoiceThread]. You can upload pictures and create an audio narrative to go along with them. In addition, audio comments can be left by visitors. Collaborative slideshows http://voicethread.com/#q.b7946.i58412
 * Students learning to speak/write in Spanish**

[|What we learn through ICT]Thanks to Appleby School and Allanah King "We have recorded a Voicethread with local school to show what we have learnt by using computers in our classroom this year" (Appleby School)

[|Voki]

Digital story telling
Powerpoint/keynote - recording voice Garageband Photostory iMovie MovieMaking

[|iTalki] //italki.com// is where you can find everything you need to learn a language. //italki// is a social network and an online resource for learning foreign languages.

Collaborative projects Voices of the world

Google Translation - Labs.google.com [|teacher tube video] [|Language Learning and Web2.0]

[|Read Please] This is a better tool, cut and paste text into it or type your text directly into the window and it will read it to you. It has a variety of voices, pitch etc and you can increase or decrease the font size. The word spoken at the time is highlighted. It also is smart enough to avoid punctuation. Very cool. I use this to proof read essays, blogs etc