The following table is a list of appropriate CPD materials with links to activities that use these tools.
| Name | Description | Related activities | Other useful links |
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| Mindmup | A mind mapping tool that allows for multimedia content. Brainstorm, create presentations and document outlines with mind maps, and publish your ideas online and to social networks. Overview | Comparing cultures and discovering if we are intercultural speakers | |
| Uses in language learning: Vocabulary and grammar, writing structure, listening and viewing skills. |
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| Padlet | Padlet is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Think of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time wiki. Source: Padlet.com Overview Tutorial | Comparing cultures and discovering if we are intercultural speakers Help students discover their Erasmus City Help students choose their Erasmus destination | Mrs. Treichlers WikiSpace |
| Uses in language learning: Writing, print literacy, multimedia literacy, online identity |
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| Kahoot! | A Kahoot is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment. Overview Ways to play Tutorial | Using an online quiz for assessment Using Kahoot! to motivate and engage first year students Digital Visitor or Resident? Your digital diet Using social media in your target language | |
| Uses in language learning: Vocabulary and grammar assessment, listening and viewing skills, multimedia literacy, gaming literacy |
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| Google Maps | Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for travelling. Overview | Exploring new places with Google Maps | |
| Uses in language learning: Pre-mobility Programme planning, learning about places in your target language. Discover important cultural aspects of cities in your TL. Search literacy. |
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| Voice Thread | VoiceThread promotes meaningful conversation through the use of visual prompts such as video clips, images, graphs, and more. Educators can create VoiceThreads that will engage students and stimulate thoughtful dialogue and collaboration, dialogic feedback, social construction of knowledge and much more. Available on mobile devices and desktops. Overview Tutorial | Voicethread Digital Library | |
| Uses in language learning: Listening, speaking and viewing , writing skills, asynchronous collaboration, tagging literacies, online identity, multi media literacies |
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| Lyrics Training | LyricsTraining helps you to learn new vocabulary and expressions, and reinforce grammar concepts in your target language. Lyrics Training offers a selection of songs in multiple languages, with four levels of difficulty. Listen to the song in the target language and type the missing lyrics in the spaces provided. Your score will be calculated on the time it takes for you to complete the words. LyricsTraining.com | Lyric Training: improve your target language with songs and musical videos | |
| Uses in language learning: Grammar concepts, listening skills, aural comprehension, gaming literacy |
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| ClipFlair | ClipFlair is designed for developing exercises and activities, which will enable FL learners to practice all four skills: writing, speaking, listening and reading. Overview | Audiovisual translation to improve listening and viewing comprehension skills Babelium - videos and exercises for oral practice | Captioning and Subtitling: Undervalued Language Learning Strategies The effects of captioning videos in foreign language listening activities |
| Uses in language learning: Cultural communication, non-verbal cultural elements, Visual media and multimedia literacy |
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| SpeakApps | SpeakApps is a project which focuses on creating a free and open source online platform to practice oral skills online. Overview | Developing oral skills online | |
| Uses in language learning: Cultural communication, oral practice, multimedia literacy |
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| Mind Maps | A mind map is a diagram that connects information around a central theme. At the centre is the main idea, with branches showing the subtopics or related ideas. This technique maps out your thoughts using keywords that trigger associations in the brain enhancing the creation of further ideas. | Target Language: mapping your steps Improve your vocabulary with mind-maps | Mindmeister Simplemind MindMup 2 |
| Uses in language learning: Vocabulary grammar and syntax, strategies for langauge learning, Multimedia literacy |
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| Babelium | This website gives students the opportunity to record their own responses to video activities. They can plan their responses or give them spontaneously. Teachers are encouraged to develop their own material to upload on the website. They can assign their students their relevant work to be completed at home, and feedback can be given in written or audio-visual form. | Babelium – videos and exercises for oral practice | |
| ComicMaster | Comics have been used extensively in the educational field to engage learners either as “consumers” of narratives created by others, or as “creators” of their own stories. Reading and creating comics, as any other storytelling activity, helps the development of cognitive and communicative skills, facilitates meaning making, enhances writing and reading skills while fostering creativity. | Creating comics in the target language | |
| SeaGull | Tandem learning can be an effective way of accessing native speakers of your target language and practicing in an informal, authentic way. The idea behind tandem learning is that you speak with your partner in your first language, and help them practice; they in turn do the same for you in your target language. | Online Tandem Learning | |
The following table is a list of appropriate CPD materials with links to activities that use these tools.<br />
| Name | Description | Related activities | Other useful links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mindmup | A mind mapping tool that allows for multimedia content. Brainstorm, create presentations and document outlines with mind maps, and publish your ideas online and to social networks. Overview | Comparing cultures and discovering if we are intercultural speakers | |
| Uses in language learning: Vocabulary and grammar, writing structure, listening and viewing skills. |
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| Padlet | Padlet is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Think of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time wiki. Source: Padlet.com Overview Tutorial | Comparing cultures and discovering if we are intercultural speakers Help students discover their Erasmus City Help students choose their Erasmus destination | Mrs. Treichlers WikiSpace |
| Uses in language learning: Writing, print literacy, multimedia literacy, online identity |
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| Kahoot! | A Kahoot is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment. Overview Ways to play Tutorial | Using an online quiz for assessment Using Kahoot! to motivate and engage first year students Digital Visitor or Resident? Your digital diet Using social media in your target language | |
| Uses in language learning: Vocabulary and grammar assessment, listening and viewing skills, multimedia literacy, gaming literacy |
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| Google Maps | Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for travelling. Overview | Exploring new places with Google Maps | |
| Uses in language learning: Pre-mobility Programme planning, learning about places in your target language. Discover important cultural aspects of cities in your TL. Search literacy. |
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| Voice Thread | VoiceThread promotes meaningful conversation through the use of visual prompts such as video clips, images, graphs, and more. Educators can create VoiceThreads that will engage students and stimulate thoughtful dialogue and collaboration, dialogic feedback, social construction of knowledge and much more. Available on mobile devices and desktops. Overview Tutorial | Voicethread Digital Library | |
| Uses in language learning: Listening, speaking and viewing , writing skills, asynchronous collaboration, tagging literacies, online identity, multi media literacies |
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| Lyrics Training | LyricsTraining helps you to learn new vocabulary and expressions, and reinforce grammar concepts in your target language. Lyrics Training offers a selection of songs in multiple languages, with four levels of difficulty. Listen to the song in the target language and type the missing lyrics in the spaces provided. Your score will be calculated on the time it takes for you to complete the words. LyricsTraining.com | Lyric Training: improve your target language with songs and musical videos | |
| Uses in language learning: Grammar concepts, listening skills, aural comprehension, gaming literacy |
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| ClipFlair | ClipFlair is designed for developing exercises and activities, which will enable FL learners to practice all four skills: writing, speaking, listening and reading. Overview | Audiovisual translation to improve listening and viewing comprehension skills Babelium - videos and exercises for oral practice | Captioning and Subtitling: Undervalued Language Learning Strategies The effects of captioning videos in foreign language listening activities |
| Uses in language learning: Cultural communication, non-verbal cultural elements, Visual media and multimedia literacy |
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| SpeakApps | SpeakApps is a project which focuses on creating a free and open source online platform to practice oral skills online. Overview | Developing oral skills online | |
| Uses in language learning: Cultural communication, oral practice, multimedia literacy |
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| Mind Maps | A mind map is a diagram that connects information around a central theme. At the centre is the main idea, with branches showing the subtopics or related ideas. This technique maps out your thoughts using keywords that trigger associations in the brain enhancing the creation of further ideas. | Target Language: mapping your steps Improve your vocabulary with mind-maps | Mindmeister Simplemind MindMup 2 |
| Uses in language learning: Vocabulary grammar and syntax, strategies for langauge learning, Multimedia literacy |
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| Babelium | This website gives students the opportunity to record their own responses to video activities. They can plan their responses or give them spontaneously. Teachers are encouraged to develop their own material to upload on the website. They can assign their students their relevant work to be completed at home, and feedback can be given in written or audio-visual form. | Babelium – videos and exercises for oral practice | |
| ComicMaster | Comics have been used extensively in the educational field to engage learners either as “consumers” of narratives created by others, or as “creators” of their own stories. Reading and creating comics, as any other storytelling activity, helps the development of cognitive and communicative skills, facilitates meaning making, enhances writing and reading skills while fostering creativity. | Creating comics in the target language | |
| SeaGull | Tandem learning can be an effective way of accessing native speakers of your target language and practicing in an informal, authentic way. The idea behind tandem learning is that you speak with your partner in your first language, and help them practice; they in turn do the same for you in your target language. | Online Tandem Learning | |
