Participants in the NOVASTARTALK Summer Institute learned about Blendspace, a free online application that allows users to combine different types of media (web pages, videos, simulations, documents, images, etc.) into a cohesive and navigable web page. They used Blendspace as a way to organize and showcase the many products that they created throughout the week.[…]
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ScreenChomp is an iPad app that allows users to make annotations and doodles on the screen while narrating and recording. The instructors downloaded images and then wrote in the target language while they recorded their audio at the same time. Rozita A Mostofi, Parivash K Eidizadeh, Farideh N Jahanbin, Gita Sadeh Shariat: http://www.screenchomp.com/t/7mdTFy2P http://www.screenchomp.com/t/KHVYvtEfmc http://www.screenchomp.com/t/7caBJrHVBr
The instructors were given the task of recording each other using the iPad to answer questions in the target language about their trip to the Smithsonian. The task modeled a sample assignment that they could then give to their students. After they finished recording the video, they edited the files and added effects using YouTube’s[…]
myBrainshark is a free, online tool used to create online and mobile presentations. The easy-to-use interface lets users combine pre-existing PowerPoint presentations, images and video, documents and PDF files with narration and background music for a standalone, playable movie. Below are several presentations created by our instructors that could be used as part of an[…]
Tagxedo turns words — famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters — into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. NOVASTARTALK instructors particularly enjoy this program as it supports characters in many of the STARTALK languages, allowing them[…]
Padlet is a simple, drag-and-drop application that allows you and your students to make collaborative online walls. Think of it as a free smartboard where images, videos and text can be shared with the click of a mouse. Padlet was used for participants to introduce themselves at the beginning of the face-to-face workshops. Here are[…]
As you create learning objects and tools for your classroom, post the links to these items in this forum to share with your fellow NOVASTARTALK participants.
The following lesson plans were created by the participants of the 2013 NOVASTARTALK Webinar Series for Faculty Developers.
As you create learning objects and tools for your classroom, post the links to these items in this forum to share with your fellow NOVASTARTALK participants.