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By Adam Gacs, Instructor & Technology Specialist, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/QXVD4963 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
Read MoreBy Irina Kogel, Five College Lecturer in Russian at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Smith College. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/IOCF4540 Extempore is a web-based platform designed to let language teachers assign and grade oral assessments. The app
Read MoreElizabeth Caspari, French Teacher, Clayton High School, MO DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/TSKP6405 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
Read MoreBy Marina Buratti, French and Italian Teacher, Sewickley Academy (PA) DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/GIRP2017 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
Read Moreby Megan MacNicol, Spanish teacher in Hershey, PA DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/VSEQ9349 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
Read Moreby Beatriz Gómez Acuña, Associate Professor of Spanish, Elmhurst College DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/UITI6163 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
Read Moreby Shannon Donnally Spasova (Michigan State University) DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/RBFG1121 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.
Read MoreNathalie Ettzevoglou, French Teacher at Alpharetta High School, Georgia. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/BMSW4176 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
Read Moreby Shannon Donnally Spasova, Michigan State University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/OMUS6850 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
Read MoreBy Anna V. Torres Mallma, Spanish PhD student at University of Illinois at Chicago DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/WBJH9950 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
Read MoreBy Lincoln Bain, MAT graduate student, Northern Arizona University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/OTRM6072 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
Read MoreBy Cheryl Gil, Spanish teacher at Lugoff-Elgin Middle School in South Carolina. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/LKDV9433 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
Read MoreBy Margot Riemer, Teacher of Spanish at Berlin Bilingual School (Berlin, Germany). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/GMSD7016 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
Read MoreBy Shannon Spasova, Assistant Professor of Russian and Technology Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/LPBD2927 The impending demise of the Flash player has been wreaking havoc with many apps that teachers use to create speaking
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