Screenchomp is a free app that allows you to create and share short tutorials on your iPad. You can demonstrate things on its whiteboard by drawing and talking through your instructions. Your instructions and talking will be recorded and uploaded to ScreenChomp.com where a shortened URL will be provided for you to share with your students.
ToonDoo is a free comic-creating tool that supports multiple languages and designs. The following toons were created by NOVASTARTALK participants as potential tools for their students. Learn more about ToonDoo here.
This short video created by NOVASTARTALK participant, Fadwa Hussein, demonstrates use of Animoto, a web application that, with the click of a button, produces videos using images and music that a user selects. Language teachers and students can choose culturally-appropriate images and audio to produce short movies that can be used in language presentations.
The participants of NOVASTARTALK 2010 all joined in to create an online discussion using Voxopop. This asynchronous tool is great for taking the conversation into an online environment, and is great for practice speaking and for storytelling.
As part of the NOVASTARTALK Summer Institutes, participants create web portfolios to house the materials that they create over the course of the week. In completing this task, they both learn how to create class websites and also learn applications that they can give their students to create e-portfolios. The following sites were created by[…]