Audio Whiteboard Videos with ScreenChomp

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

myBrainshark for Integrated Performance Assessments

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[…]

Word Clouds with Tagxedo

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[…]

Collaborative Walls with Padlet

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[…]