Teaching World Language in an Online Environment
Presenter: Alexa Haselhorst
November 5, 2020 11:00am
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Agenda:
World Language Standards:
2. Interpretive Communication
3. Presentational Communication
4. Culture
Poll- Which mode of communication has been going well?
Use the Chatbox to type your response:
Image via Pixabay. No attribution needed.
What tools should I use?
NC Virtual is not endorsing or vetting any type of online tool, but we have compiled a resource list for your reference.
https://ncvps.org/digital-transition/
Guiding Questions: (is it easy, is it appropriate, is it safe?)
What has already been created for us to use in NC?
https://goopennc.oercommons.org/ and
https://sites.google.com/dpi.nc.gov/remote-learning-resources/home and
Have you checked out those resources? Do you follow any professional groups? Wakelet?FB?Twitter?
How do we use tools to help us meet the standards?
Let’s think about some of the tools that we have been using to meet our standards-
Then let’s take a closer look at our standards.
-Interpersonal communication
-Interpretive communication
-Presentational communication
- Culture
NC K-12 Modern World Language Bridging Document
Poll
What’s your favorite web tool that you have been using?
Let’s use mentimeter to make a wordcloud of your responses.
Go to www.menti.com and use the code 74 85 97
Photo via Pixabay- no attribution needed.
List of popular webtools.
Quizlet* EdPuzzle
Quizizz* Whiteboard.fr
Kahoot* Jamboard
Wizer.me* Bookwidgets
Vidyard Educandy
Lingt * VoiceThread
Goformative* WordWall.net
Padlet* ClassKick
Pear Deck Seasaw
Near Pod Mentimeter*
Loom*
(* ones that I have used)
Zoom- Breakout sessions- this is the best for interpersonal communication so that it’s 2 way, but given the constraints that we have, how can we make other options work?
Ideas in Breakout sessions:
Other Ideas:
**How can we lower the affective filter? Give the students what they need to be successful. Support them with scaffolding, sentence frames, word walls, transitions words. Create a warm environment.
Choiceboards
A couple examples of Interpersonal Communication
Information Gap Activity:
If online, have 2 google docs- group A and a group B. Group A has one set of information. Group B has the other. The students have to ask questions to get the missing information.
Ex: Hobbies:
Group A: Group B:
Marie - plays soccer Jacques- plays hockey
Lucas- reads Suzanne- writes poems
Claire- skateboards Stéphane- plays videogames
Jacques- Marie-
Suzanne- Lucas-
Stéphane: Claire
Ask your partner, what the students like to do.
Depending on the level- give your students support.
Ex:
What does … like to do?
Other Info Gap ideas:
Recipe with the 2 groups having different ingredients.
Train schedules
Clothing- who is being described?
Shopping- who buys which item? Groceries? Clothing?
2. Interpretive communication- Listening/Reading
EdPuzzle- embed questions into a video
ThingLink- augment images, videos and virtual tours. Choose an image, then add tags to add text or video.
Nearpod- Create presentations- as a live lesson or student paced.
GoFormative- Create quizzes with text, video, images and different types of questions.
Lyrics Training-
Wizer Me- Create worksheets. You can also search worksheets that others have shared.
Example with Interpretive Communicative
Goformative:
https://goformative.com/formatives/5fa1927cd6fbe0813a0ab5c8?preview=true
(This would be better with an authentic text, but I used to as an introduction about my family when meeting my students.)
3. Presentational Communication- Speaking/Writing
*Give your students what they need to be successful. Word walls, sentence frames, transition words, anchor charts and grammar supports.
*How can you have those online? Post it to the whiteboard. Have it as a Google doc. Bitmoji Classroom?
Speaking Prompt- Add a link to a Vocaroo, Flipgrid, or an image.
They can record using Vocaroo.com or Screencast-o-Matic or Vidyard or Loom
Write an email or social media post.
Watch a clip with no sound- write what happens.
Create a comic strip (the strip designer app for iPad)
Write a story (Storybird, Book Creator, StoryJumper)
Beginning/ Middle/ End- show an image and then students say what happened before, etc?
Mindmeister/ Picktochart/ Canva/ Goanimate/ Wevideo/ Voki/ Read Write Think- Trading Card creator/ Lingt- add video, text, voice, mp3, image and then assignment either speaking or writing prompts.
Choice Boards
How do you use Choice Boards with your students?
https://wlclassroom.com/2020/06/16/choiceboard/
Check out LeslieGrahn’s resources- @grahnforlang
Culture
How are you presenting culture? Investigate and Interact?
Where do you get your authentic materials?
-FB Groups/ Wakelet/ Pinterest/ Google Images/ IF Profs
Ex: Wizer.me worksheet from Jenny Burke-
Topic-- French numbers and school supplies shopping with authentic Carrefour ads for the kids to practice stating prices in Euros. You can set it to auto correct the answers for matching, true/false, etc.
French numbers 0-1000
https://app.wizer.me/preview/XO5A8R
French numbers and prices
https://app.wizer.me/preview/43O30D
Here is the link I used for the listening section of the quiz:
(The above links were created by Jenny Burke.)
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Some Final Comments
Don’t forget to check student view! Don’t forget to include directions about how to submit the assignment.
How to get images that are public domain- Unsplash/ Pixabay/ If you use Flickr, then you can use imagecodr.org to get the attribution.
Keep reasonable expectations for you and for the students!
Thank you for attending this webinar! -Alexa
"just breathe" (CC BY-SA 2.0) by chintermeyer