This document provides a collection of over 30 ideas for using technology in the language classroom, including: 1) Websites for creating word scrambles, captions, diagrams, timelines, and more. 2) Tools for translating text, recording audio, and generating quizzes and games. 3) Ideas for engaging activities using videos, images, and interactive whiteboard resources. 4) Tips for using QR codes, text randomizers, voice changers and other technologies to enhance lessons. 5) Links to free online resources for activities focused on vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading skills.

1. MFL Widgets & Wizardry
30+ ideas for the language
classroom

2. Siest du
eine Vase
oder
zweiGesichter?
derMund
die Nase
das Kinn

3. Unejeune femme
ou
unevieille dame?

4. Tuvois
un lapin
ou
un canard?

5. Build your wildself
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

6. Match the Harry Potter Names
Fang
Sorting hat
Hogwarts
Slytherin
Diagon Alley
Muggle
Wood
Daily Prophet
Crocdur
Choixpeau
Poudlard
Serpentard
Chemin de Traverse
Moldu
Dubois
La Gazette du Sorcier
La Gazette du Sorcier
Chemin de Traverse
Poudlard
Choixpeau
Serpentard
Dubois
Moldu
Crockdur

7. Countdown timer
www.online-stopwatch.com
A nice collection of timers.
Includes countdown bomb!
www.classtools.net
Has tunes you can use to countdown
Also : name/word randomizers, hidden image

8. www.classtools.net
Fakebook
Twister
Great for project work – a celebrity, a town, a
character in a novel, play or film

9. Talking points Google: ‘unusual
pictures’; check
before use!

10. Popplet
http://popplet.com/app/index.php#/460907
Easy
diagram
creator
You can
include
youtube
videos

11. Goodie bag
Reward cards & Tesco medals
2 toy mobiles
Flipcam
Juggling ball
Green & red Answer buttons
Post-its
Smartphone - Voice distorter
(homerizer)
Celeb masks

12. Scrolling Text
Star Wars -http://www.starwars.com/play/online-activities/crawl-creator/
here’s an example – can you spot 1 French & 1
German word?

13. Powerpoint
Lets you turn
Text
Into
Scrolling
Credits Or you can make
words
flash
On
And
off

14. Easy prompter
http://www.easyprompter.com/
Paste text into the box and it turns into a
broadcast-style autocue
Obama’s 2nd inaugural
speech starts like this:
Each time we gather to
inaugurate a President
we bear witness to the
enduring strength of
our Constitution. We
affirm the promise of
our democracy. We
recall that what binds
this nation together is
not the colors of our
skin or the tenets of our
faith or the origins of
our names. What
makes us exceptional --
what makes us
American -- is our
allegiance to an idea
articulated in a
declaration made more
than two centuries ago:
“We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that
all men are created
equal; that they are
endowed by their
Creator with certain
unalienable rights; that
among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness.”

15. Zap reader
Here’s some text to try:
“We hold these truths to be self-
evident, that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.” www.zapreader.com
Select ‘Reader’
Paste a bunch of text in to the box
Hit ‘zap it’
The page will display one word at a time
You can adjust the speed and the number of words
displayed at any one time (up to 5)
Good for reading practice (phonics)
Information recall
Translation / comprehension
Predict next word
Repeat/ recall last word

16. This is a wordle (wordle.net)
how do we use it?
See also Tagxedo
www.wordle.net

17. Bart’s Chalkboard
Next time, I must
remember to get this
right……
3 things I learnt this
lesson
Why not use Bart’s Blackboard on a worksheet or the IWB
Here’s a question I want
to ask the teacher/ the
class

18. Here’s the background

19. Who needs expensive & fiddly e-voting
systems?
Multiple choice / mini-plenary smiley kit
Download the ‘kit’ here:
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/vets/2011/11/smileys-for-mini-
plenaries.html

20. Cartoon creators
Go Animate - Make animations using a range of characters &
props. The pupils love it. Drag and drop to create scenes.
Allows text, but not speech. See examples here and here
• Toondo - cartoon strip creator- Cartoon strip creator.
Drag and drop. A good way to reinforce a topic.
http://www.toondoo.com/Example here

21. MrPicassohead
• www.picassohead.com
• check out also:
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
Also
• anime character maker
• sonic character creator
• gamepuma character creator

22. Top 10s
http://www.aneki.com/lists.html
Go out of
Powerpoint
slideshow into
edit mode &
move the
rectangle around

23. Poodwaddle.com + world clock
World clock
Contains (simulated) ‘live’ data
You can also carve a tree
on Poodwaddle; google:
‘Poodwaddle + carving tree’
OFSTED – NUMERACY &
SMSC

24. Graffiti creator
http://www.graffiticreator.net/
use ‘wall texture’ backgrounds on the
whiteboard or from google images

25. Online voice recorders
• Audioboo
Easy Audio clip recorder- just click, record and send.
Click the icon above to hear my sample. Get pupils to
do a quick audio message and send it to your email
address (your network techies can set one up a
shadow (proxy) one for you)
• VocarooEasy audio recorder
There’s a more flexible one called Audiopal
Soundcloudlets you store longer bits of audio

26. Fotobabble
Upload a photo and add your audio commentary
Here ’s an example (year 8 German)
Ideal for topic work at any level

27. Voki – talking avatar creator
• Click the Borat sample. Text to speech, lots of
characters, voices and languages.
Selected pupils come to the front and create a
target language Voki message to the class
Pupil A inputs a description about another pupil.
Class have to guess who it is. Winner takes over.
Selected pupils create a plenary Voki of the 5
most useful words from the lesson for the rest of
the class to guess
Teacher creates a Voki containing a starter
activity or a message which contains the lesson
objective

28. What Mike?
What’s the best external mic to use
(if you don’t have one built in )?
Modern laptop mics may be OK
A decent external mic is the
Logitech USB Desktop Microphone
About £18
Audacity is still the best easy sound recorder and editor

29. One motion drum machine
Click on the
image to see it
in action –
If you’re
feeling brave,
try the
alphabet song

30. Pond5 sound effects
Guess
the animal
form of transport
Musical instrument
weather

31. Gap fill generator
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-gapfill-generator.html
Google: random idea + English + Gapfill generator

32. Blabberize
• http://blabberize.com/view/id/794856
Upload any image, customize the mouth, record
a message and watch the lip-sync in action.
Works best with cartoon faces but you can try
celebs too.

33. Sandfields Comp IWB resources
• ‘Bingo in’ mad
• Click clock
• Fridge magnet
• Sketchpad for Pictionary
http://www.npted.org/schools/sandfieldsComp/games/Pages/default.aspx

34. Triptico
• A great set of downloadable IWB tools –
scoreboards, word random selectors and, best
of all, word magnets

35. Classic games arcade + Mini putt
http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/21
660/connect4.html
http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/
21665/mini-putt.html

36. Dice
I get up
I wash
I eat
I get dressed
I brush my teeth
I go to bed
In the garden
In the kitchen
In the garage
On the balcony
In my room
In the school
With my dog
With my cat
With my horse
With my two goldfish
With my mouse
With my tortoise
http://dice.miniwebapps.net/

37. Electronic Voting Systems
Student response Systems
Socrative
Infuse Learning
Poll anywhere

38. My Game grid backgrounds
There’s an online selection here
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/vets/2012/05/g
amegrid-backgrounds.html
Or you could copy the next few slides

39. Gamegrids
Only the first slide – the staircase –
works as a proper Powerpoint
slide.
The rest need to be in edit mode
i.e. you need to come out of
presentation mode

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Task bar – ROLL THE DICE BUT YOU CAN ONLY MOVE
IF YOU COMPLETE THE TASK
1 = TL to Eng
2= Eng to TL
3= TL phrase into Eng
4 = give 3 TL words connected by theme or
structure=
5= Eng phrase into TL
6= do a task (e.g. sing days of the week)/rap the last
ten TL words from your book
Or use the grid to practise& repeat 6 or twelve
questions

45. Hang the teacher!
Professeur
/ Lehrer
Élèves/
Schüler

48. QR CODES
Creates a link from print to a website/
email address or message
To make the barcode, you need a QR
code generator – lots online e.g. zxing
To read the barcode, you need QR code
reader or scanner app on your phone
Use in class:
Put on classroom displays to link to more info online
Put on pupils’ books to link to more info or even a personalized message
Language competition – Pupils read the code on the wall and find the hidden
message/ word of the day etc

49. QR code – Try this

50. Text mechanic + reverse text generator

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which scrambler sentence order an text of
use an online text scrambler which puts the
words of a sentence in a different order
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www.togglecase.com lets you do other things
like produce backwards text.
http://www.rjwoerheide.com/scrambletest.php
Google: rjwoerheide + text scrambler
Text Srambler

52. Use a video clip
• discussion, starters, attention grabbers
Vocab practice, sequencing, what happens next…
descriptions, memory tests, freeze frame- jump/
stop/ shout when you see …. Word X
• Use Keepvid to copy Youtube videos
• Use Tubechop to cut Youtube videos
• GoodYoutube clips to use
Mr Bean cartoons & clips (e.g. Mr Bean packs for a holiday)
HB Männchen adverts e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9dkHdQOAg

54. Text to speech IM Translator
http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/
A clever site. Surrounded by adverts. A bit fiddly to use but good
once you get used to it. You can input text, translate text, get it to
speak it back and adjust the playback speed.

55. Lingro
• Import a foreign language webpage address
• each word becomes clickable
• You can click on the word for the meaning and store it
in a word list
• It will generate a set of flashcards of the words clicked

56. And finally…
Some photo editors & caption creators
Image chef
Fodey
Funny pho.to
Photobox
Glass giant
etc
jon.meier@verulam.herts.sch.uk

57. funny.pho.tophotobox
fodeyimagechef
Caption generators

59. Keep calmomatic

60. jon.meier@verulam.herts.sch.uk j.meier@talk21.com