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by Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University. For quite some time, clickers (or student response systems) have been popular tools in large lecture courses to elicit student participation. Kahoot, a game-based quiz platform has also become commonly used
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By Anna V. Torres Mallma, Spanish PhD student at University of Illinois at Chicago Recap is a free web-based tool that allows users to record and post videos for private and public interactive discussions. It is a product from
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By Lincoln Bain, MAT graduate student, Northern Arizona University. Perusall is a free web-based reading tool designed by a small team of professors from Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin. Perusall allows users to create collaborative reading
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By Cheryl Gil, Spanish teacher at Lugoff-Elgin Middle School in South Carolina. Padlet is a virtual wall that allows users to post words, pictures, attachments, and links onto a single post. If the link is shared, whether through
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By Margot Riemer, Teacher of Spanish at Berlin Bilingual School (Berlin, Germany). Kaizena is add-on tool for Google Docs that allows teachers to give extensive and varied feedback to their students. For anyone who has previously commented on students’
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. The impending demise of the Flash player has been wreaking havoc with many apps that teachers use to create speaking assignments
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Meloddye Carpio Rios is a Spanish Phd student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. VideoAnt is a free web-based tool created by the University of Minnesota that allows for the adding of annotations and observations to online
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. H5P is a free application by Joubel that allows you to create a variety of interactive and mobile-friendly activities that
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By Heidi Trude, M.Ed, French Teacher at Skyline High School, Front Royal, VA and Certificate Student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Adobe Spark is a free web-based tool that allows for the creation of graphics, stories, and videos
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By Margot Riemer, Former Upper School World Languages Department Chair, Harvard-Westlake School, California. Recently, while doing some research about new tools for a graduate course in technology integration in the language classroom, I came across an intriguing and useful tool
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By Peggy Veal, French Teacher & World Language Department Chair, STEM School and Academy, Highlands Ranch, CO. If you teach a world language, you have undoubtedly heard about Quizlet. Quizlet.com is essentially a web based vocabulary learning tool that uses word banks
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By Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. The AAPPL Conversation Builder (http://aapplcb.actfl.org/) is a tool that can be used to create oral assignments or tests. The tests
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By Peggy Veal, French Teacher & World Language Department Chair, STEM School and Academy, Highlands Ranch, CO. As I was walking through the vendor booths at ISTE, I noticed a young boy playing a game in French on an IPad. I
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Dr. Dan Nickolai, Saint Louis University, iSpraak Developer and Director of the Language Resource Center iSpraak is a new web application developed by Dr. Dan Nickolai at Saint Louis University that allows language teachers to create pronunciation exercises
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