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By Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Introduction With the abrupt shift to online learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, hyperdocs such as Google Docs have garnered a lot of attention due to their ubiquity, ease of
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By Budimka Uskokovic, PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures StoryJumper is a web-based tool that allows students to design their own stories, to collaborate with other students, and to become published
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By Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University, and Betsy Lavolette, Kyoto Sangyo University While Zoom and other video conferencing tools have worked well for pair and small group work, language teachers have struggled to find a tool that could simulate
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By Ekaterina Shutenko, Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Russian, Lehigh University The Miro team claims their product to be a visual collaboration platform: not just another online whiteboard, but rather an interactive tool that allows you to create, collaborate, share, and
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By José Manuel Suárez, Teacher of French at IES Mata Jove High School (Gijón, Spain) Storyboard That is a web-based tool that allows students (and teachers as well!) to create digital storyboards. Its users are able to develop their creativity
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We invite you to try out a new format and engage with our “asynchronous webinar”. This webinar, created by Shannon Donnally Spasova, introduces you to using Flipgrid either for class discussions or for speaking assessments. [Update: After a change
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By Adam Gacs, Instructor & Technology Specialist, Michigan State University The name Audiolingua might immediately bring to many language teachers’ mind the once-popular but today largely shunned teaching method of the late 50s and 60s called Audiolingualism
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By Irina Kogel, Five College Lecturer in Russian at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Smith College. Extempore is a web-based platform designed to let language teachers assign and grade oral assessments. The app allows
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Elizabeth Caspari, French Teacher, Clayton High School, MO Recently launched, FluentKey is designed to gamify the use of videos for comprehension. FluentKey is currently in beta testing, but open to all. Edpuzzle already allows teachers to design online quizzes
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By Marina Buratti, French and Italian Teacher, Sewickley Academy (PA) Wakelet is a free web-based tool that allows you to curate and share multimedia resources from around the web: webpages, videos, tweets, images, PDFs and a whole lot more. It seems similar to
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by Megan MacNicol, Spanish teacher in Hershey, PA Formative, which is also known as GoFormative, is a web-based tool that allows teachers to create digital formative assessments, tasks, or assignments that are easily accessible from any electronic device:laptop,
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by Beatriz Gómez Acuña, Associate Professor of Spanish, Elmhurst College Edpuzzle is a web-based interactive video tool that allows teachers to customize existing online videos in ways that encourage active learning. The basic version is free for
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by Shannon Donnally Spasova (Michigan State University) In previous articles, I introduced you to H5P’s Interactive Video and Audio Recorder activity types. In this article, I would like to introduce you to the H5P Course Presentation activity type. It is
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Nathalie Ettzevoglou, French Teacher at Alpharetta High School, Georgia. Quizalize is a web-based tool that allows teachers to collect and track student-specific data generated automatically by the zzish platform in order to personalize instruction. The company’s platform zzish was
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