Language Educators

Our school is testing out the use of iPad's in all classrooms for next year. I teach all four levels of Italian and would appreciate any suggestions on apps or anything else you have used that would be interesting and effective.
Thank you.
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Daniela Sepulveda
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We have iPads carts in every school in the district for the first time this year.  In my class I've enjoyed using Socrative (web version, not app yet... needs some work) and Quizlet.  Socrative is a slick way to quiz or do an "exit slip" for your class, and pretty easy to set up as long as you mess with a bit on your own first.  Quizlet is a flashword/vocab practice website that's a step up from Quia, if you haven't used it.  I especially like using the speller function with my students.  We're finding that non-content-specific apps will probably be more useful in the classroom than content-specific. 

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Erin Parris-Dallia
Spanish/French Teacher
West M.S.
Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, MI
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Sent: 11-29-2012 07:36
From: Daniela Sepulveda
Subject: Using the iPad in the classroom

Our school is testing out the use of iPad's in all classrooms for next year. I teach all four levels of Italian and would appreciate any suggestions on apps or anything else you have used that would be interesting and effective.
Thank you.

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Daniela Sepulveda
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Teresa Suarez- my students bring their IPad to the classroom every day. They access the course content on ItunesU, including listening activities, the content presentation, practice and reinforcement activities, and culture. They have the choice to keep their class notes using Notability, where they can record voice as well and then send to my email.
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Sent: 11-30-2012 07:52
From: Erin Parris
Subject: Using the iPad in the classroom
We have iPads carts in every school in the district for the first time this year. In my class I've enjoyed using Socrative (web version, not app yet... needs some work) and Quizlet. Socrative is a slick way to quiz or do an "exit slip" for your class, and pretty easy to set up as long as you mess with a bit on your own first. Quizlet is a flashword/vocab practice website that's a step up from Quia, if you haven't used it. I especially like using the speller function with my students. We're finding that non-content-specific apps will probably be more useful in the classroom than content-specific.
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Erin Parris-Dallia
Spanish/French Teacher
West M.S.
Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, MI
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-29-2012 07:36
From: Daniela Sepulveda
Subject: Using the iPad in the classroom
Our school is testing out the use of iPad's in all classrooms for next year. I teach all four levels of Italian and would appreciate any suggestions on apps or anything else you have used that would be interesting and effective.
Thank you.
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Daniela Sepulveda
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I use a lot of e-work in my Spanish classes. You are invited to visit my web site at: http://teacherweb.com/NC/Fuquay-Varina/Wood/photo2.aspx

Check out my Spanish II BLOG page. We blog on average of once a week.

The interactive on-line text is linked and requires passwords.

Also included are Links to county curriculum guides and on-line resources.

William Wood
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-29-2012 07:36
From: Daniela Sepulveda
Subject: Using the iPad in the classroom

Our school is testing out the use of iPad's in all classrooms for next year. I teach all four levels of Italian and would appreciate any suggestions on apps or anything else you have used that would be interesting and effective.
Thank you.

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Daniela Sepulveda
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Hi Daniella,

A couple thoughts to get you started... I recently started using a software on my desktop called Reflection (download fromhttps://www.reflectionapp.com/) which allows me to show my iPad/iPod/iPhone through my laptop to project on the whiteboard/screen. It is only $15 and is extraordinarily useful. With this you are able to be walking around the room and not tethered by a cord to show what you want students to do or for students to show to the rest of the class what they have created. Splashtop app is also a great app (itunes store) for remote controlling your classroom computer from your iPad/iPod/iPhone so you again don't have to be right next to the computer that is attached to your projector in order to post what you want to show. For these to work your classroom computer and the iPads do need to be running on the same wireless network so you may want to check to verify that this will be the case. 

If you are on Twitter, I would recommend that you do a search for #techfl which will take you to the informal gathering we had at the last ACTFL conference to share our favorite apps. There is a good summary there. Also Shelly Terrell has recently done a bunch of webinars on Simple K12 on using iPads. Lots of apps for developing communication were presented there. Some I remember include Pocket WavePad (like audacity), Puppet Pals (digital story/role play), Voicethread, LinoIT (collaborative stickie note board like wallwisher), Popplet (mindmap), there are various whiteboard like programs where students can draw what is described to them for example, dropbox for sharing files, google drive (the only thing you can't do is edit slides)... You can find Shelly's stuff at the following links:
http://teacherrebootcamp.com/free-ebooks/mobile-learning-50-resources-tips/
http://www.slideshare.net/ShellTerrell/presentations 
On twitter @ShellTerrell 

Melinda Larson has a great collection of apps for language learning located at: 
https://sites.google.com/site/melindamlarsonapps/

You are welcome also to look at my Diigo list for iPad: 
http://www.diigo.com/user/lryeazel/ipad

Most of all, think about the task first. What is it that you want students to be able to do. I'm sure there is an app to help you with that. Don't design the activity just because you have an app or some new technology. Consider what you want students to accomplish and then consider how it might be accomplished better and what tools you need to do that. You may want to first think about what isn't working and how to fix it. No need to change everything all at once or what you know is working already. 

Hope this helps get you started. Good luck and enjoy the new opportunities coming your way.

Lauren


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Lauren Rosen
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Show Original Message -------------------------------------------
Original Message:
Sent: 11-29-2012 07:36
From: Daniela Sepulveda
Subject: Using the iPad in the classroom

Our school is testing out the use of iPad's in all classrooms for next year. I teach all four levels of Italian and would appreciate any suggestions on apps or anything else you have used that would be interesting and effective.
Thank you.

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Daniela Sepulveda
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