Handout for the "Motivate ALL your language learners!-Differentiation revisited" session at Manchester Grammar School (for ALL), Saturday 23rd November 2013

1. Motivate ALL your Language Learners!-Differentiation revisited,
Saturday 23rd November, Manchester Grammar School
Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, Alderley Edge School for Girls
@icpjoneshttp://twitter.com/icpjones
A downloadable copy of the presentation slides for this training session will be available from:
My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Audio support:
Audacity free sound editing softwarehttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
Create your own speaking avatars with Vokihttp://www.voki.com/
Text-to-speech softwarehttp://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
Visual support:
Make your own words using pictures of lettershttp://metaatem.net/words/ABBA
Flickr (photo-sharing site) http://www.flickr.com/
Flickr group for language teachers http://www.flickr.com/groups/imagestoteachlanguages
My own authentic pictures (also available from TES profile at
http://www.tes.co.uk/MyPublicProfile.aspx?uc=694292&event=21 )
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icpjones/sets/72157621889909661/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icpjones/sets/72157612320791556/
TagGalaxyhttp://taggalaxy.de
Pinterest (sharing visuals and infographics) http://pinterest.com (icpjones)
PhotoPin (creative commons licensed pictures) http://photopin.com
Pics4Learning. com (pictures for educational use) http://www.pics4learning.com
Photo-vocab (Spanish) http://zachary-jones.com/photovocab
Word Clouds and Word Art
http://www.wordle.nethttp://www.imagechef.comhttp://www.tagxedo.com
Graphic organisers, mind-mapping software and interactive
visualshttp://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.mindomo.com
Templates to support differentiated thinking skills activities http://classtool.net
Desktop tools to support a range of differentiation strategies http://www.triptico.co.uk