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TALFL Keynote: Aim High (Tech)
I am honored to be invited to give the keynote presentation at the Sixth TESOL, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Conference at West Chester University on April 16, 2016.
TodaysMeet room – online space for comments and questions during presentation
In the presentation, I mention many resources for language teaching and learning, many of which are free. I list them below, in order of appearance. If no language is explicitly mentioned, the resource is applicable to many or all languages.
- TodaysMeet
- Line – social network and video/voice/text chat
- Facebook – social network
- FUN – Massive open online courses (MOOCs) in French
- gacco – MOOCs in Japanese
- HelloTalk – mobile app for virtual language exchange
- Tandem – mobile app for virtual language exchange
- Google Forms – create online surveys
- infogr.am – create interactive charts
- Piktochart – create interactive charts
- Microsoft Office Mix – create narrated presentations
- Mixxer – set up virtual exchanges between learners or classes
- Twister – create fake Twitter status updates
- Simitator – create fake Facebook status updates
- YouTube – Repository for online video
- YouTube video editor – online video editing
- iMovie – video editor for Mac
- Movie Maker – video editor for Windows
- Web Tools for Language Learning and Teaching – curated list of free technology tools for language teachers and students
- Duolingo – learn languages through translation
- Transparent Language – online language learning program (paid)
- WeSpeke – set up virtual exchanges between learners or classes
- Teletandem Brasil – set up language exchanges between your Portuguese class and Brazilian classes learning English
- WordPress – blogging/website platform
- Scribblenauts Remix – mobile game that can be played in German and English (paid)
- Say the Same Thing – mobile game where you try to guess what the other player is thinking
- 20Q – play twenty questions against the computer, choose a person, place, or thing
- Akinator – play twenty questions against the computer, but choose a famous person/character
- PurposeGames – create games based on your own content
- Hiragana Keisan (Puchi Games) – calculation game using Japanese characters
- Kahoot – create multiple choice games for competition in class
- Rikaichan/Rikaikun – plugin for Firefox/Chrome browsers that produces a popup box showing the meaning & reading of Japanese words
- Google Dictionary – plugin for Chrome browser that produces a popup box showing the meaning of words in Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Slovak, and Spanish.
- Zhongwen – plugin for Chrome browser that produces a popup box showing the meaning & reading of Chinese words
- Adobe Acrobat – PDF creator and editor (paid)
