30 Audio/Podcast Editing Tools This is a page of the DIRECTORY OF LEARNING & PERFORMANCE TOOLS If you would like to submit a tool for this Directory, please use this form. Top Tools 2014 Free Tool Audacity : Cross-platform sound editor and recorder. Audio Acrobat : Create audio and video. Audio Conversion Wizard : “All to All” converter of digital audio formats. Aviary : Media creation tools: image editor, audio editor, screen capture. BlogAmp : Audiocasting for the masses. Blurts : Instantly add life to static photos, tweets, emails, social posts and more by tagging them with a 30 second voice caption, voice comment, spoken story or rant. Clipfair : free tool offering ready-made activities for captioning and revoicing in foreign languages. Easypodcast : A GUI tool for easy podcast publication Open soure, Download ePodcast Creator : Complete podcasting software for beginners or professionals. Evoca : Record your voice on the web; capture your readers’ voices. Garageband : Turns your Mac into a recording studio.
edutopia Videos can be an effective tool for teaching and learning English (or, for that matter, any academic subject) if used strategically and not as a "babysitting" device. My colleague Katie Hull Sypnieski and I wrote a previous post for Edutopia titled Eight Ways To Use Videos With English-Language Learners that shares instructional strategies for many kinds of clips. Here are a few of my favorite videos to use with those exercises. Video Playlist: Resources for English-Language Learners Watch the player below to see the whole playlist, or view it on YouTube. Mr. More Resources on How to Teach ELLs With Video For more sources of good videos designed for English-language development, and for ideas on how to use them, visit these websites: The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them) is an exhaustive collection that I've developed.
SHERLOCK: S2E2 THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE TRAILER Barefoot In the head A few year ago, I was a bit curious about how well learners can evaluate each other. I designed a small experiment to find out. It goes like this: Take a group of learners, say 15 in number, in a classroom. Give everybody 15 sheets of paper and ask them to write their names on the top right corner of every sheet. In other words, you have conducted an examination without making a question paper and without having to mark a pile of answer books. I tried this for three years in the course I teach on Educational Technology for M.Ed. In the meanwhile, I thought you might like to try....
7 Ways to Transform Your Classroom Background: This is a blog post I originally wrote for a presentation on Classroom 2.0 Live! It is based on some ideas sparked in another post, Transformative or just flashy educational tools?, which only had 6 suggestions, but David Warlick inspired the 7th in his comment. The 7 aspects below, were developed when principal Stephen Whiffin and I were conceptualizing some of the important aspects we would be exploring at our new Inquiry Hub school, (more on the school here and here). We believe that much of what we are doing at the Inquiry Hub can be done in any classroom. So here are seven key aspects we are exploring at the Inquiry Hub that can help transform any classroom into a more engaging, and student-empowered learning space. Note that in both the blog post and the accompanying slide show, each section includes an inquiry question that educators can persue to extend their own learning. (Give learners choice.) Inquiry based learning is a key tenet of the Inquiry Hub.
Speed Racer: W It is often difficult for students to realize when to use "used to" or "would" in order to express past habits. This segment and activity will give students an opportunity to use this target grammar point in a contextualized manner. Before watching the segment: Play some relaxing music, dim all the lights, create a cozy atmosphere, and ask your students to take a fantasy trip into the past. What are your best childhood (teenage) memories? What did your school look like? What kind of student did you use to be? Who used to be your best friend? Where did you use to go on weekends? What sports did you use to practice? What were your favorite games? What did you dislike about that period of your life? Now divide the class into pairs, give each pair a copy of the questions you have just read, and let them share their ideas with their partners. Now watch the video segment and fill in the blanks of the following sentences with "used to + verb" or "would + verb". 7) He _____________ (draw) racing cars. .
Universal Design for Learning: An Introduction Universal Design for Learning aims to make modifications in three broad areas that together deliver a programme that will best meet the needs of all learners. In each area the barriers to success are identified and where possible removed or minimised. UDL identifies three essential Neural Networks that combine to produce effective learning, each network as a corresponding place in the learning process. Recognition Networks are the systems that allow us to gather information from our environment and we categorise and make sense of that. Present information and content in different waysDifferentiate the ways that students can express what they knowStimulate interest and motivation for learning Universal Design for Learning is about identifying the needs of all learners and then planning to deliberately meet these needs. Is UDL just making things easier, too easy? No. In some cases the barrier to learning may be that the intended task was too easy for the student. How can I learn more?
Des sous-titres intelligents pour apprendre l’anglais avec les séries Smartsubs crée des "sous-titres intelligents" pour apprendre l'anglais à travers les séries télé. Ils s'adaptent au niveau de l'utilisateur, et traduisent les mots difficiles. Game of Thrones, saison 1 – HBO Kévin Perez et Félix Revert, respectivement ingénieur informatique et ingénieur statisticien, ont conçu un programme (gratuit) qui repère de lui même, dans les sous-titres de vos séries préférées, les mots compliqués ou les expressions idiomatiques à traduire. Les Français ont lancé leur site en mars : SmartSubs. « Après avoir passé de longues heures devant notre ordinateur à regarder des séries à s’être posé des centaines de fois la question: est-ce que je mets des sous-titres ? L’utilisateur envoie son fichier de sous-titres sur le site. A noter que les sous-titres peuvent s’adapter au niveau de l’utilisateur. « La difficulté des mots, du vocabulaire, est relative à la personne, à sa langue maternelle, mais aussi aux séries et films que regarde cette personne. Fabien Soyez
Story Map - An Interactive Story Planner Story Map is a free interactive story planning tool from Read Write Think. Story Maps provides four templates for outlining stories. To use the templates students title their stories then choose one of four templates to outline their stories. The four template choices are conflict, setting, character, and resolution. Students can print their completed templates. Applications for EducationStory Map could help students get their stories organized before moving onto doing the actual writing of their creative stories. H/T to Ana Cristina Pratas. 50 Useful Apps For Students With Reading Disabilities Whether you’re the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you’re undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle. Helpful Tools These tools are useful for both educators and students with reading disabilities alike, aiding in everything from looking up a correct spelling to reading text out loud. Speak It! Fundamentals Reading Writing Spelling
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