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Nathalie 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
Read MoreMeloddye Carpio Rios is a Spanish Phd student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/ALXV8813 VideoAnt is a free web-based tool created by the University of Minnesota that allows for the adding of annotations and observations to
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/HNEN7248 H5P is a free application by Joubel that allows you to create a variety of interactive and mobile-friendly activities
Read MoreBy Heidi Trude, M.Ed, French Teacher at Skyline High School, Front Royal, VA and Certificate Student at the University of Colorado Boulder. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/KEIG2855 Adobe Spark is a free web-based tool that allows for the creation of graphics, stories, and
Read MoreBy Margot Riemer, Former Upper School World Languages Department Chair, Harvard-Westlake School, California. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CCBX9958 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
Read MoreBy Peggy Veal, French Teacher & World Language Department Chair, STEM School and Academy, Highlands Ranch, CO. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/GHWG3297 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
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/FGPE9187 The AAPPL Conversation Builder (http://aapplcb.actfl.org/) is a tool that can be used to create oral assignments or tests. The
Read MoreBy Peggy Veal, French Teacher & World Language Department Chair, STEM School and Academy, Highlands Ranch, CO. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/QHHB3149 As I was walking through the vendor booths at ISTE, I noticed a young boy playing a game in French on an IPad.
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