Do You Speak Tech? The Pandemic Edition: Technology and Second Language Teachers

so thank you so much for joining us tonight for the uh for our presentation of do you speak tech the pandemic edition presented by the second language intercultural council as well as um the erlc so edmonton regional learning consortium and mr briggs joe yes we will be sharing the recording um i'm guessing the erlc will put it up on their website and i believe it will be up on youtube as well once they do their magic with it it may take a couple days so we have the bitly the short link in there for the presentation so if you want to access any of the links um to websites that we're looking at and um and you know further on it as well as even the speaker notes there it is and uh i'll remind you of that link again a few times throughout the session it will be up on some slides again if you have your son is driving and you can't take notes that's okay you just uh concentrate on your son driving you home joe and getting you home safe and watch this recording when you have some some timing that's the great thing about online pd is that we're able to go back and watch it when we might have a little more time um pause and you know re-listen to things and um i think that's maybe one silver lining out of this whole pandemic is that we've learned how to do a little more online pd and it's becoming easier and easier so if you um have not uh heard of or have not you know signed up for the other sessions in this series we will be having uh kind of one almost every week between now and and the end of march and so if you go to uh the erlc websites or click there's a link on this uh on this image here that you can use to to get right to the get ready to register or again watch them later when you have time so today we're going to be reflecting on strategies for authentic engagement in the target language through computer assisted language learning or through technology integration in our classrooms and our first session we're going to be kind of breaking up into these sections so start some very quick introductions and a little bit of uh research just sort of that will be sprinkled throughout but i'll show you which uh canadian publications will kind of be grounding our discussion tonight and before we get into the meat of you know implementing technology i want us to talk about why technology in the classroom i think it's nice to start with uh you know uh you know why are we even here and kind of give us a bit of background on that and then we will be going on to talk about some key considerations for integrating technology or which has kind of affectionately become called the the teacher talk with technology and one of our big sections tonight is going to be when in doubt finding help so really talking about when you're looking to implement a new technology how can you start where do you learn how you know how are you supposed to figure out how to use flipgrid or kahoot or you know whatever app or website um you know is the is is the in thing right now and then we'll have a little bit of time to try and then throughout the the session tonight we will also have some time to um sort of you know look at some different technologies and you know there'll be a few kind of little activities to engage you that hopefully you can take back to your to your language classrooms so just very quickly my name is stephanie jackson bezio i work at edmonton public schools at the institute for innovation in second language education where i coordinate and support the french programs there and also support teachers of second languages and bilingual and french immersion programs i also volunteer for slick and for the alberta teachers association and they've partnered up with the erlc to to have this have this uh session and the series presented and i love educational technology um mostly because uh not only did i found that find that it was engaging for students um but i and just super cool sometimes we get to do things like virtual reality or you know find a really neat app site app or website that that works well in your classroom but um i also really appreciated the efficiency of technology and how it was helping me work a little bit smarter it's my email please do not hesitate to email me if you have questions um or you know need some guidance or inspiration or you know anything related to technology and second languages and just want to reach out no problem i'm currently on maternity leave so i'm really looking forward to talking to some adults so please don't hesitate to reach out so here is uh just a little intro activity to kind of get to know you um and one that you might be able to replicate in your online or distance learning classes tell me how you really feel about technology in the classroom and if the numbers or the emojis here don't represent uh you know closely enough then go ahead and choose one of your own and so you know this is kind of a neat way to survey students quickly in the classroom threes and fours three but sometimes two and sometimes i it depends on the day i can be everywhere from a one to a five right great to see a little bit of everything here and that's actually pretty typical for when um we're working with teachers with regards to technologies that we see some two threes we see some people that are one twos and four fives and really all over the board so again please don't hesitate to even if you would like to use this in your classroom um and you want to save five minutes copy and paste the emojis with the numbered text under them from my slideshow and use them in your own slideshow it's really not a problem that's i can save you 10 minutes and that's awesome let's get right into things tonight uh looking at the research there's two canadian publications excuse me that i'll be pulling from tonight and uh the first one is from cassalt or the canadian association of second language teachers and so they've recently you know one of the great things to come out of 2020 maybe one of the only is this a literature review on uh facilitating language learning through technology and uh so seven dollars for members and uh if you're not a member of crystal time you know i do recommend them for some good for some great high quality resources and uh very easy to read uh literature review research that's got i think you'll find through some of these quotes um some really kind of rubber hits the road uh research so some things that might actually give you some ideas what to do in your classroom the second publication is one from um actually where i work at isley and this is a literature review on the um characteristics of successful quality second language programming and so if you click on the link there you can download that for free from edmonton public schools from their resource hub and sort of a bit of a hidden hidden tech tip there is that resource hub at edmonton public schools sort of shameless promotion from my own district um but you will find quite a few resources for uh language teachers in there so for example the communicative targets um yes i'll put the bitly in here again uh so the communicative targets for fsl is sort of a snapshot document that shows um all of the um or not all but sort of a summary of the outcomes in uh for french second language uh in alberta at each grade and so there's some some really neat uh you know things that you can do with that for example we've had teachers take that into their classroom and use them as a self-assessment and so kids might color in the kind of icad statements that they're able to to meet and you know uh that kind of thing sort of do a little self-assessment there uh anytime help anywhere is our district's uh initiative to provide uh support for junior high students doing homework at home and so there's uh and you'll see um we also have some videos in french so for french immersion um and so you know even if you're teaching a you know a lot of times the second language teachers also got some math or social studies or you know other things on their plate and this is one way that you can um you know one way that you can um you know bring that help into the classroom and take a little bit off your plate hopefully so yeah take a look so getting into the why here tonight yeah there's that bitly again at the bottom in case you need to see it again so do you speak tech 2021 after the bitly now i'm going to start here um so again i'm going to give you a little kind of uh thinking activity but i don't want you to enter anything into the chat yet so you are going to prepare your response and you can type it but don't press enter to send it um to the group yet uh this is a trick that you can use when you're working with um online classes to sort of avoid that whole um i'm not going to answer until i see what everyone else says you know thing happening in classes so taking a look at this gif or this you know animated image um how does this gif represent the reality of technology in schools so again take if you know maybe one minute to type out one observation about how this represents the reality of technology in in schools today but do not press enter yet okay if you have a response ready there we'll have you put it right into the chat press enter so i'm not going to read them all so take your you know take a few minutes and read through those responses there uh how the kids picking up on the new technology faster than the teachers like yeah it took him what like two seconds to figure out what to do with this technology right so fast uh the technology in schools is necessary this being confused by the smart board i remember taking a two-day course to learn how to use the smart board my first year teaching it was it was not fun a change happening very quickly always something new to learn it's another tool in our toolbox but don't not throwing out the other things that worked definitely i also i feel for this poor teacher bart's teacher who like is gonna walk into her classroom tomorrow and wonder where her blackboard went and all of a sudden there's a new piece of technology right and so sometimes we don't always get a choice in what technology shows up in our classroom right and yeah it's a little more engaging and definitely saves some time for for bart um and then i even i think the uh the message that he's writing is kind of apropos very on point as well i will not fight the future right another thing that that comes to mind uh when i think about technology in classrooms is i mean this might this might look like a super old classroom but i remember when i went to school it was the same the technology um we had a computer lab so you would all go to the computer lab to sometimes do like a computer assignment um but if not it was having that tv being rolled into the classroom right um and however i don't know that you would see many classes that um lack as much diversity as we see in this classroom here there's a lot of very similar looking children in this classroom this gentleman in the bottom right who's just so excited to take notes after watching on the tv right um this all also this idea of that one technology for the entire classroom and and that there's no interaction between the technology and the students right the technology is there to impart information and the students are there to receive it and then um like traditionally the teacher would not have had much hand in creating the the technology that that's being displayed right and besides you know choosing which video you're you're showing you're not actually creating them right which would be different from today and i think this kind of this idea of the zombie apocalypse seems maybe a little more on point for today but i would like to propose that maybe this uh gentleman here in the front is actually checking out his math google classroom and he's looking for his homework and maybe this guy here in the red top and the grey pants he's actually using the word reference app to look up a word so that he can write his new friend in spanish on whatsapp and then i think this gentleman an orange t-shirt i'm pretty sure he's looking up like knitting tutorials on youtube right we don't we're not really sure what they're doing there yet and then like why technology because oh 2020 i tried writing a song about it but i can't think of anything that rhymes with right let's prove just 2020 prove to us just how important i think technology can be um for today and in the future and being able to make the best out of technology is is is becoming more and more important right for everybody but of course these teachers who you know are thinking that never would have imagined themselves passing or spending you know 90 or even you know a large chunk of their time teaching through technology or this online learning uh teaching from home and it just sort of got pushed into that so fast and just have adapted so incredibly well it's uh just a real testament to your to your hard work and your adaptability and then yeah you ask a teacher how distance learning is going so far one hour here is seven years on on earth for seven years of the technology right and so hopefully um we can show you some strategies for today and and maybe even some specific technologies that can take some of this burden and off of your shoulders and maybe save you some time when you're looking at doing technology and bringing technology into the classroom coming back back to the research we show that uh the research has shown us that there's so many benefits to using computer assisted language learning or technology in a language classroom and so being able to bring that into your classroom and really um [Music] make the most of it and and bringing out you know that individualized instruction and and at the same time as you get you kind of get both sides of the coin you get the students who are working autonomously but you can also you know have more collaboration when you've got that technology being used in the class and so just you know coming back again to that kind of that idea that not only are you giving them more autonomy and you know more specifically the use of mobile devices is leading to more learner autonomy and more you know these these students being able to take the learning outside of the classroom and then also where they're able to collaborate outside the classroom right and then we also see that it's helping them self-regulate their language learning as well so that's sort of just another piece that's bringing in for that mobile technology i think it's pretty clear that technology you know uh and communication has changed with technology and i think a lot of us can relate to this mom's thinking or saying you know i haven't gotten two words out of jeremy this week it's ridiculous sometimes i wonder if he's even able of communicating but then when you look at all of this communication that's actually happening up here it's just in the background and we might not see it right because technology has fundamentally changed how literacy and communication or what they are nowadays right we read different kinds of texts we read them on different kinds of devices this idea of hyper media right and i bolded this last statement because this really um resonates with me this idea of the digital media leading to our students being able to meet in these online spaces with people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds and being able to talk about and share their interests with people from from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds and when we think about that isn't that really the the goal of our language of our language program is that students be able to connect with people from from different backgrounds right i think sometimes we might think like what are they doing online what's going on here what are they doing they're showing you things they're telling jokes they're creating content like photos and videos with text or with you know audio on them they're resolving problems sharing ideas they're making instant connections with other people right and more importantly they're talking about themselves and when i look at this when i look at these um these statements and these you know things that what students are actually doing on tick tock and instagram and snapchat and youtube it makes me think of authentic communication and um i see a lot of these communicative functions of talking about my of you're talking about yourself and making connections and resolving problems i see that in my curriculum um for in the curriculum for second languages across canada and this idea that authentic communication um is what we want students to be able to do in the target language so looking for the authentic communication that from the the moments that we can bring in from the social media from these new technologies into the classroom is not only going to motivate our students because it's bringing their interests into the classroom more but it's also going to offer them more authentic and deeper learning opportunities in the target language and really encourage these deep connections with the cultures okay so that's sort of my my little soapbox speech about why we're using technology in the classroom and i actually see that i'm ahead about two or three minutes i want to take a moment and see if there's any questions or any concerns or maybe any comments that you would like to share with the group i'm just going to stop sharing here so that i can see everyone if you'd like to type something into the chat or even unbeat yourself and share um the rest of the group he looks like we're just still first with it excellent okay yes i just needed more wait time now i know how the kids feel when i ask a question i know right yeah totally there's a lot of beans around around going around about um you know teachers on zoom okay next we're going to talk about some considerations so before we get into you know use this technology for this or you know i want us to talk about um what we need to keep in mind when we're selecting technologies and before we get into what the research says um i'm going to give you this sort of what's sort of become called the teacher talk with technology and just sort of some personal anecdotes and some personal advice um before we get into something so serious we work with a lot of teachers who feel guilty that they're not using enough technology in the classroom and let's just start by getting rid of that negative energy there's no place for that um it's just you know not productive and so we're just not going to feel guilty about not using enough technology and uh you're here today and so that's already a huge step and that's great and most students would tell you that they're super proficient at technology um they might be able to figure out how to use any app or website within a minute because they're these digital natives and we're supposedly these digital immigrants um but that's a little bit of a myth so yeah they're great at pushing buttons figuring out how the app or the web website works within a few minutes but they're also great at consuming technology turns out they need their our support and our guidance when it comes to learning with technology so like they're great at going down the rabbit hole of like funny cat videos on youtube not so great at searching out culturally appropriate uh sources uh for for learning the language of learning more about a culture and things like that and then always always always keeping in mind when we're bringing in a technology what time in um are you using or what class time are you using to learn about how to use the technology like there's some pretty neat websites out there but if you're spending most or a large chunk of your language class time learning or teaching the students um not in the target language but you know in english or french or whatever you know the first language is in your classroom teaching them how to use the technology and there's not a lot of language learning coming out then you know you need to be very you know cognizant of that and you know keeping in mind that the most important thing is is the learning right so uh one more thing i wanted to mention with that is kind of get more bang for your buck by teaching how to use the technology in the target language like it's probably gonna take you twice or four or maybe a hundred times longer to teach the kids how to use a website or for example how to even um with little students or even junior high students at the beginning of the year how to go get their chromebook and log on to the google classroom that might take you two or three classes in a spanish second language classroom to do that in spanish or in french or whatever the target language is but remembering that that is not lost time you're learning curriculum you're giving them super authentic language they're learning about how to use the technology and when you're teaching them in the target language the the vocabulary and the phrases for how to use the technology that's super authentic and so yeah it takes a really long time but it's not wasted time there's one thing um especially if you're on that sort of one two three end of the emoji scale there from the beginning technology is maybe you know a little scary for you this is the one thing i would really like you to take away from tonight is that user-friendly is good and complicated is bad so technology needs to be there to serve your purposes and make your teaching life easier if it doesn't do that then you need to drop it um long past are the days of going to a two-day seminar to learn about how to use a specific technology um you're not going to break the app or the website by clicking around so you know you kind of jump in and try it out and i would say i mean we're going to talk later about tutorials and getting help but if you're on a normal year within half an hour of diving into a new technology you can't see how it could be implemented into your classroom um and then i would say maybe this year we're all a little bit extra stressed and so maybe 15 minutes um and after 15 minutes of playing around you don't have some kind of idea how this could you know be used to teach the language in your classroom drop it come back later hopefully google will buy them and they'll become easier or they'll uh a new website will come come along and so most importantly the language learning has to come first right when we're talking about bringing in technology into any classroom the learning has to come first since we're talking about our language classrooms we're always in the back of our mind thinking how is this technology building language proficiency what curricular outcomes is it targeting is the technology bringing in some authentic cultural or you know some native speakers into the into the classroom are the students producing some language are they listening or reading authentic samples of the language and how are you going to assess those skills right and so the research is also pretty clear that we need to consider um you know the pedagogical implications of any technology that we're bringing into into our classroom okay we're gonna talk briefly about the sammer model uh want to introduce it and then two just kind of some considerations here so the idea for the summer model is sort of that there are different levels of technology integration so when we think about it um we start at the bottom here we've got the substitution where the technology is not really making any functional change so for example you can use you know google maps to look up where a city is instead of going to an atlas it's a little bit faster but there's not much functional change to that right the augmentation comes when we're you know getting a little bit of improvement functionally to that so when you're using on google maps to measure the distance between two places i mean that's pretty instant it's a lot faster than taking out an atlas measuring it with a you know a ruler making the conversion etc etc modification redefinition redefinition this is where we talk about teaching above the line so this is where basically the technology is bringing transformation to the task and really changing how we're um how uh or what this test looks like in the classroom so modification there's a significant redesign so for example you could go in in google maps and you can actually you know walk around the towns and cities all around the world and get you know 360 degree views and that's something you can't do with an atlas right and then redefinition is really that idea of like creating new tasks that you couldn't even think about without technology so for example you've got students who are using screencastify to video record and audio record themselves walking through the streets of a city in in you know in the target culture and you know explaining it and then you can snip all of those together and make it like a collaborative you know documentary with the class that's something that you just can't do without technology so a few different examples and i'm actually um if you check in the speaker notes there there's the link to the website um where i got this from so this first one is from technology is learning um so they kind of give a very simple sam or kind of step up to give you an idea of what this could look like so for that substitution students are using the technology to print off a quiz at home on paper they're still completing it on paper and then submitting it to you when they're back in in person uh that augmentation so if you're doing your quiz via google forms um a lot quicker you can also get some automatic feedback and things like that right when we're talking about teaching above the line we're getting to the modification redefinition and so there we're looking at you know like modification what if they write an essay and they could audio record themselves uh you know reading the essay with the soundtrack and you know play that for some kind of authentic audience like maybe another class or for parents or something like that and then redefinition that idea of that collaborative documentary where the kids could you know come together and each take different parts of a topic and research it and create videos that are going to get snipped together to create this documentary and so just sort of different ways of implementing technology in the classroom but don't discount the power of using technology um in this kind of augmentation capacity so for example the quiz via google forms that is saving that teacher a whole lot of time in providing feedback it's also providing feedback to students in a more timely manner so it's not just that it's more efficient and easier for the teacher but it's actually better for the learning right for students because you know the research is pretty clear that when students get feedback in a more timely manner that it's more you know meaningful for their learning and so it's not always that we have to be like above the line in that modification kind of kind of area right another example here that i'd like to share with you is from peachy publications so i'll just give you a moment to take a look at that so you set up front of my throat there so um oops i didn't mean to click that one for it so for example that um using technology to get an online version of a text is not bringing a whole lot of functional change once you're bringing in like what that's supposed to be an answer read and write for google for example to highlight and annotate um you're bringing in you know augmenting what the technology is really doing when you're reading a text um in the target language next looking at uh modification is you could still with read and write for google but bringing in that speak recognition so maybe having the text read aloud to the student and read and write for google chrome has got more and more uh languages and and accents and things added all the time it's great um and also maybe doing uh speech to text so where the the students can use speech to text to write reflection um share their reflections and maybe have like a live debate on in google meet or zoom or whatever it might be and then taking it even a step forward a step further bringing in some social media so maybe the students are using read and write for google so started all of the same things as before but they're also now collaborating online to create some kind of a product that they're going to then share via social media um then they're going to watch each other's you know each other's products and you know comment back and forth have some kind of analysis and report at the end and so really you know getting the most out of that you know on out of that text and out of reading the text and and using technology to really stretch that learning as far as you can but again keeping in mind that sometimes uh we would just need them to read a text and we're gonna discuss it and maybe you know staying the little line is is totally appropriate just you know knowing what your purpose is right so again coming back to what are students doing with the language and always keeping that in mind um so again don't don't underestimate the power of having uh you know having some fast uh fast feedback and things for the students right and the redefinition that idea that technology is supporting student-centered learning collaboration and communication and when we think about collaboration and communication in a second language classroom especially it's just so so important right okay so we're going to get into the uh talking about where to get help what to do um when you're you're kind of starting with technology is before we move on to there are there any questions comments concerns give you a minute or two to see if there's anything else you'd like to share with us [Music] so nina asks how often are people using technology in the classroom that's a great question and then roxanne's asking i wonder about the access to technology outside the classroom definitely i think that that's something that we always have to keep in mind um and especially when we're thinking about you know the language learning is coming first and thinking about udl or maybe you know universal design for learning that idea that we're giving some choice for the students um and kind of always having non-digital or non-technology options for them to be able to demonstrate their learning right because when it comes down to it um the important thing is they be able to demonstrate the language proficiency right and so and it's not always um the technology isn't always the answer right so another comment about the summer model i'm using flipgrid quite a bit we're going to be using that later on today it's kind of my new favorite moved oral interviews to flipgrid yeah using word reference would love to find more resources to practice and enhance french i use text tech every day we see some that are saying like kind of once a week and some people saying i use technology every day and so yeah it's a bit kind of all over the board which is very typical besides um uh besides the teachers having different levels of of you know being comfortable with technology it also depends on what your school what your classroom has available for for physical technology what your students have available um the age can matter not so much in um that the littles can't use technology but that i mean in kindergarten and you know grades one to six they don't necessarily have their own mobile phones or mobile devices on them um so personally i taught a lot more in junior high and so ninety percent of my students had their mobile devices and so it was quite easy to just oh hey let's do this kahoot or socratov and do that kind of on the fly whereas you know that has to be something that's planned out or you know unless you have a chromebook carter or ipad cart or whatever it is in your room so yeah it can definitely depend excellent okay let's move on here so uh moving on to finding help so where do i start pick the easy stuff pick something really user friendly really easy i highly suggest flipgrid if you haven't tried flipgrid and you're looking for like one technology to try that's going to be the one that i'm going to recommend today um just because it i've used it a few times recently and i was very shocked at how easy it was for how much you get out of it so it can be kind of daunting because it feels like it's all on our shoulders as as teachers to you know know all of the technology um but keep in mind that this is true uh you know with any as with any resource that you bring into your classroom the effectiveness of the resource is going to depend on the teacher's ability to use and implement it effectively right that's not just with technology um the difference with technology is that there's some really great and simple and user-friendly ways to start and to find help so first start small and i mean something simple with the big impact so like with flipgrid um your learning curve is like 10 minutes really and what you get out of it is so huge um that it's really worth the 10 minute investment right um and then my other kind of huge tip is just to search youtube and google so literally i tell my mom all the time like mom just literally google it and she's like what do i google and i say you literally google your question so like how do i use whatever the app or website is or um i even kind of more than google i prefer youtube i love going to youtube looking for tutorials um and we have another flipgrid lover here in the nothing um so that's great okay we're going to actually i'm going to stop sharing this screen and share uh kind of the rest of my screen so that we can take a look at the actual google site a second here and it's open so talking about youtube for tutorials i do have a few tips um when you are uh you know looking for help on how to um you know how to to use a new app or website i'm just kidding there we go so uh you can search in the second language and you'd be surprised how many of these apps and websites have um have helped in the second language and so that's great uh but you're literally just gonna search the app or website with tutorial now my big tip is going to be look for the shortest video so like if you can explain the basics of your app or website to me in less than 10 minutes like ain't nobody got time for that especially no teacher so like 10 minutes or less and five minutes is even better seven minutes love it and part one but that's okay because it'll get me started right um what's great about youtube tutorials is you can slow them down you can watch them again you can have this in the background on your laptop while you have your phone out practicing on the app or vice versa if it's uh only a computer app then bring it up on your laptop and have the youtube tutorial on your phone so you can kind of pause and look um and then also look for a recent one so for example google classroom has a lot of updates so you don't want like a google classroom tutorial from two years ago because you're probably missing like 100 million new features and it the screen might even look different right so yeah under 10 minutes um but it's 20 20 20 21 oh minute and 27 seconds uh and you can kind of already judge like from flipbrid like looking here we haven't come across many videos over 10 minutes some of these people it's like two or three or four minutes that's a great indication that this is going to be a user-friendly technology for us to use right um so literally just search youtube that's my favorite favorite thing to do um i'm gonna give you one more now if you're having kind of problems finding the uh tutorial or if all the ones you're coming across are just not great uh one thing that you can do is filter by playlist so what that does is it gives you all of the um all of the videos that people thought were good enough to take out and save to a playlist right and so it's kind of just a first step of peer review um and so can often you know be quite helpful uh with narrowing down uh your choices this also is a great tip when you're you're looking for cultural videos or you know uh videos that are actually like teaching a concept in the second language that's one thing that you can do um and then along with uh using youtube for tutorials um definitely think about checking out some of the uh you know teaching resources and things like that um some of the pd uh there's a lot of things that you can find so for example uh there's a spanish teacher his name is senior howard um he's really active on twitter and that and he's got a youtube channel and he's got some great um you know ideas for how to teach spanish to kids and uh in staying completely in the target language and i never taught spanish but i followed him very closely had great tips that i would bring all the time into my junior high french classroom even though he's a spanish like grade one teacher so you know there's some and then once you start looking at them you're gonna be you know going down the rabbit hole and kind of looking at the suggested videos and you'd be surprised what comes on so i find a video and i would really love to watch this but i'm just like it's eleven o'clock at night i gotta go to bed i gotta you know get up the next day i'm gonna save this for later right and so under the video you have a save and you're gonna save that to a playlist you can save it to watch later which is just a playlist for you to kind of uh you know like a holding bucket for for videos or you can actually make a playlist specific for like this is teaching inspiration this is french music this is my cooking videos things like that right [Music] okay one other tip that i have for you in the slideshow you'll see a link there for adblock so what that does is it gets rid of those commercials at the beginning of a youtube video so that's uh why you want to be also signed into chrome so do you see here at the top of the youtube page how it says stephanie madame jackson that means that i'm signed into chrome so i'm signed into the into the like internet browser um and that's going to make it so that it will save all of my bookmarks and things in the future um but also when i add on an extension like adblock or accent grid or whatever um it's going to uh remember it next time i log in at school where i log in at my parents house or i log in at home or wherever it might be and so just keeping all of your settings and um getting rid of those commercials i noticed that the commercials uh sorry to give me problems with easy access add-on oh good to know um sometimes what you can do is in the ad block extension you go into the settings and you can like allow all the time the easy accents but yeah can sometimes get into a into an issue with the um with your accents and stuff or with you know different extensions yeah check it out um and then the last thing i wanted to mention with playlist is this new thing about collaborative playlists so i'm not sure if you know that so to get to my playlist i'm going to go up here to the hamburger in the menu hamburger in the top left hand corner and i'm going to go and find a you know like a playlist that i want i'm just going to pick a random one and if i go down here to these three little dots because it's kind of hidden um i'm gonna click the three little dots and i can say collaborate um and i'm gonna just turn that on and it's gonna give me this link so i copy that and then if i give that a link to my students for example they can then add to this playlist so it adds to my playlist and then it tells you who added what video so you're not getting students adding like inappropriate things or whatever but kind of a neat way to collaborate and um a nice way as well um i i'm not sure if it's like this all across canada but i know that here in alberta we often have um students kind of like kindergarten to university level french in the same french second language classroom so like in a grade 8 fsl or french second language you know where they're meeting three times a week for an hour um i'll have a student who's francophone so like who came from a french-speaking country along um with a student who's maybe completely new to canada and so doesn't speak english or french and kind of every level of french and english in between um and so um it's you know a great idea for some of those students that might have been former french immersion or maybe they're francophone or spanish is their first language it's your spanish classroom can get them to you know create you a playlist of some great cultural videos music videos whatever it might be and that's a kind of a nice way to engage them still in the classroom and um engaging with their peers in a way um but not you know always sticking up their hand to answer super super easy vocabulary questions because they know all the answers already right okay excellent uh going back so i'm just gonna stop sharing so that i can go back to the other screen to share okay so moving on to the next one here so uh is there any questions before we move on to kind of this time to try i've got sort of a neat little new weird technology to talk to you about and then we're going to try jamboard and then we're going to look at some um student response systems in flipgrid before we get to together any questions with youtube um with you know the looking for tech tutorials or anything like that before we you know kind of get started on the whole getting to play with the technology thing [Music] okay you can't see my chat all right there we go okay there we go how can students type with accents in microsoft teams our district uses teams um so uh the accent i use accent grid personally but i'm not super familiar with um microsoft teams does anybody else have any ideas easy accents add-on might work as well how do we block an ad so if you even um if you google um adblock for chrome you'll come across uh the first link there can get you to so accent grid does work on multiple platforms because it what it does is it copies the accent to your um like to your clipboard so then all you have to do is go control v it's like you've it's like you've copied it and then you go ctrl v to paste it in and so uh yeah you can uh use that in like copy from accent grading foam and then paste into for example even a word document or whatever it might be yeah and then um if you go into accent grid you can customize it so for example uh just give me a second here i'll probably be able to show you here so um on my accent grid like i picked all my french accents and i have them and when i go shift it's these ones i also have like some dots and arrows and just some kind of handy stuff the euro ones that i found that i used a lot and then so if i wanted this a i would just click on it and then uh wherever i wanted to enter it like if it's here in the speaker notes then i click down there and i go ctrl v to paste it in or right click paste um and then if you're if you right click and go to options then it's gonna open up uh like a grid where you basically uh it's like a table and you just put in the accents how you would like them to show up in the accent grid and so that's how that's how that works there okay now i see there's a chat who's gonna get back to the chat here in a second excellent so i'm going to move on to the next thing to try so this is an idea of a couple of technologies that have come up kind of or come come up for me anyways and become known to me recently um are the window swap and drive and listen another uh way that you could kind of get this is by looking up traffic cams in different places so window swap is a website and go ahead and i'd suggest you know going and opening that up in your own window there and take a look while i'm while i'm talking so window swap is a place where it opens up a window like someone's taken a video of their window in a random place in the world and uh it's kind of neat sometimes you can see their cat you know walking in between or walking around and and things like that so it's kind of a neat way to to get some different you know target culture inputs i guess you could say uh and then the next one is drive and listen so with this one you can choose the city and so there's quite a few cities around the world and then there's a few different radio stations and it's the someone's dash cam so it's like you're driving through paris or driving through barcelona uh with some you know target language cultural you know audio behind you know in the background so you can um hear what's going on in the street and and or listen to the radio and so just some ideas that uh i had with that um second i'm looking for my chat here there we go uh was using that for um like very simply having them kind of that idea of having it in the background so kids think that they're in a different location you know don't underestimate the power of of having a different background for and making kids think that they're you know outside of the classroom another way to kind of do that if you're doing uh zoom or google meet you know kind of having those funny backgrounds uh can can do that as well authentic cultural visuals so even having that in the background while kids are working just sort of giving them the idea that they're like in a different place while they're doing their work that they're outside of the classroom and so all of a sudden they're using the target language but they're not like in the classroom you know what i mean uh playing a game of i spy you know have some fun with it give them a speaking or writing prompt like what do you see what would you do if you were here describe the weather it doesn't have to be a spanish-speaking location for you to use it in your classroom right um it can they could be describing places in their own countries um like in canada in their own homes or they can be describing places that are from all over the world or maybe from if they've come here from to live here from a different country than you know it's that's you know super authentic and interesting for kids um and so just sort of a kind of an out of the box idea there when we're looking at technology in a different way to use that okay i'm going to get all the copy of the link here and get it into the chat it's too many windows and we're going to do a little jamboard here so it's also in the presentation if you happen to be on there before i can get the chat open oh sorry when somebody messages it and it has me like just texting to one person okay here we go now so jamboard is a new google tool so this is available in your like in google drive it's kind of like a virtual whiteboard so i'm going to stop sharing and then bring up the excuse me just had a front come up here bring up the jamboard and so your very first slide is just like if you've never used chambord before or if you just like to try it out it's just sort of a blank slide there for you to try out adding the sticky or drawing or adding some text or whatever and then when you get a moment share one or two ideas about how to use technology for reading writing listening and speaking and you'll see up at the top in the middle you can click to go to the next frame and that's how you're going to be able to to see the uh see the questions there just add a sticky note and share you know maybe one idea that you have for using technology for reading writing speaking listening oral interactions um and then this jamboard will be open for people later to collaborate on or if you wanted to go back or you just can't think of a good technology that you'd like to try or um oh i'd really like to do some reading in my next class but i don't know what app or website to try you can go back to this jamboard and get some ideas from your from your colleagues so maybe about five minutes to take a look at that and play around and at the same time if you've got any questions or comments okay there we go let's get this down [Music] yes you can insert images um our math teachers are kind of liking this because of the whole being able to draw and so if you have this you know open on your phone or on your ipad then you can use your finger or pencil to draw and then up here you'll see that you can go forward so learning vocabulary by playing picture your hangmen audiobooks and the target language yeah i'm going to add my favorite here is read and write for google read and oops and so you've got you know text to speech speech to text it's got uh visual dictionaries glossaries it's got like everything it's amazing it's a really great resource and i know that a lot of school districts or school divisions have that have a you know license for that yeah digital reader i'm just going to import in online dictionaries your translators yeah a curse and a blessing at the same time right so online translators um if you're looking for a really good online translator this new one that we've been using a lot at work is deep l and never ever ever ever show this to your students because it's magic it's unicorn magic how good it works how well it works check here 60 ideas on using jamboard and language lessons i love that thank you is it okay joe if i take that link and put it in the speakers no it's in case somebody wants to use that that looks super interesting thank you very much oh mfl twitter roddy they're amazing they have such great ideas okay i'm gonna put this on here there we go thanks attribution to dale definitely thank you very very much all righty and so bill for translating great for the teacher yeah putting themselves reading a book on flipbridge sharing comments so to see a few i'm feel good here i'm loving that yeah and it's free you gotta love those free technologies right free and user friendly it's a super great lyrics training french music videos or whatever target language you're teaching for sure videos of myself speaking in french and assign them listening tasks it's great that's regarding some great ideas here yeah and then um you can also expand here to see where everyone kind of is at just kind of date and you know see what's being written in them okay one more minute and then we'll go back to the slideshow here stuff quick question definitely yeah is there any way of setting restrictions on what students can access when they're in jamboard what do you mean like which slides or what no what tools so when i tried doing this because i thought oh this is really good they can you know we can do brainstorming or kind of what we're doing here right now and of course they saw all of the oh i can draw and i can this and i cannot and pretty soon the page was covered in scribbly goop okay i just presented to adults and that's how i learned to write that's how i learned to add in the first slide that's like here get your playing out on the first slide because yeah that's what people especially if you haven't used it before yeah um and then things can go missing and whatever and so yeah that's one strategy is having that first slide where it's like okay you get two minutes to like play yeah and then okay these are the slides that i want you to you know put one sticky per idea or you know and give them those parameters but yeah let them let them get out their sillies yeah but there's no like view only can't edit and a view only would defeat the purpose in a lot of ways but yeah you can do view only but then they can't add anything at all can you do that for specific students if they're not following god yeah of course yeah of course so in the link here you can add specific people if you're putting this jamboard into your classroom um then it would have like the class link yeah um but yeah you can you could definitely okay if you have to thank you yeah don't come that's a jamboard sort of a neat need one there okay so student response systems now um this slide will be coming up a few times throughout the this series um and we'll be sort of like on different nights we'll pick maybe a different one to sort of highlight um tonight i did want to give you an overview of sort of the differences between them so that if you are looking to bring in a a student response system into your classroom um that you've got an idea of which one might be appropriate for for which purpose so starting on the left are sort of the simpler and then going to the right we're getting a little bit more complicated basically so uh when we're talking about student response systems um i i knew some of these to begin with but some of them i actually got by posting on a facebook group of you know alberta teacher and resource sharing uh where i asked like what's your favorite student response system so there's a few of these that were new to to me if you're looking for super fast multiple choice no short answer kind of uh questions or little quizzes or exit slips then you're looking at over here on the right so kahoot kit and clickers um as well quizzes these are all going to be multiple choice um you're going to get some automatic feedback um so for kahoot gim kit and quizzes the students would find out um like if they got it right or wrong basically the big difference between kahoot and gimket is gimkit like you can see from this image is that the kids see the question and the response written out on their phone whereas with kahoot the question and responses are written like on the board and then on their phone they just sort of see like little shapes that represent the answers right so they do have to be able to see the board so game kit might be a little more appropriate like if you have some students that have some um issues uh seeing the board and that clickers is a great option if you don't have wi-fi so like if you're in maybe a portable classroom or maybe you're in a classroom or in a school that doesn't have super good wifi or it's a little bit spotty you can use clickers for free so you go to their website and print off a class set of these little like black and white icons and like each icon looks a little bit different and each side of the icon represents like a b c or d and so the kids would hold up the piece of paper with either the a b c or d side up depending on what answer they wanted to give and then the teacher is going to use their their phone to like scan the class or the or the ipad to scan the class and get the answer the the difference here would be that the students aren't getting like on their device because there is no advice they're not getting that feedback uh immediately to them that like they got this right or wrong but you are getting that yourself for individuals and the whole class um if you're looking at doing more like short answer or you want a little more writing uh involved then you're going to want to look to socrative or google forms so we still have the multiple choice true and false um ideas but you can also have paragraph and short answer responses um and you can even have uh feedback for those so if you're asking students to respond with a phrase or a word in the target language you can um have it give automatic right or wrong and give feedback for example in socrato for you know looking for certain words or certain you know phrases to be contained in that answer so that's pretty neat um moving along to quizlet and booklet those are a little more like game-based learning basically um so booklet has got like a selection of games that you can use a modified to teach things in class and then quizlet has got flashcards some games some learning tools so it's a little bit more kind of in-depth than just uh you know short answer or multiple choice we get to the three on the right here these are kind of our uh going beyond uh like an exit ticket or a quiz and really like engaging students um and having them like collaborate together um with flipgrid paragraph and padlet so mr at the bottom padlet is sort of like having a virtual board it's sort of like jab word except you can also insert videos and links and and it like basically looks a little prettier than jamboree but it's very similar paradec is interactive slide decks so for example um i can take my blue slideshow and make it so that as i'm going through the slideshow it also goes through on your end um and advances the slide and then i could ask you you know multiple choice short answer those kinds of questions but i could also ask you to draw a response um and i could also ask you to drag your cursor on to a response so for example i could ask you to drag your cursor on to your favorite student response system um and i could show the whole class like all of their cursors kind of laid on top of each other where you know quickly see where everybody's kind of voting i guess so that's sort of a neat uh a neat idea and then finally we've got flipbrid here and flipgrid is a really super user-friendly tool um i want to say that the learning time on this is about 10 minutes um so i've created for you a flip grid so it's flipgrid.com d-y-s-t like do you speak text 2021 and if you have a favorite technology that you'd like to share with us then do that if not just share a message of positivity encouragement uh hey stay safe or here's my cute dog or whatever it might be um you can to use this in your classroom if you use google classroom you can import your classes and then export your flipgrids onto class google classroom as assignments or you can just give them a join code and of course you can you know kind of simpler is foreign all right [Music] hey sorry i'm back i think i just had a just had a bit of a wi-fi issue there okay so yeah if you have an idea for using flipgrid in the classroom please share that with us is my sound okay can someone give me a thumbs up thank you roxanne and elizabeth love it all good so how many of these are free so for example pear deck um has a free version you get the multiple choice and the i think the short answer if you want to do the fancy like the draggable and the drawing then it's paid um but they uh for example in our school district they've bought a license for the entire district so for edmonton public schools it's free for their teachers right now um flipgrid it seems to be completely free for as much as i've used it they've never asked me for anything socrative is completely free they've never asked me for money same with padlets clickers kahoot gimkit um i'm the only ones i'm not familiar with are quizlet booklet and quizzets and but typically they all have um free and then like dale's or like joseph the kind of the premium options or premium features oh thank you joe for sharing a tutorial he did on flipgrid that's great uh one way that we've been using this um and maybe a way to learn how to use it and also bring that learning into your classroom or into your school i mean um is we've been using it for like staff retirements or staff parties so if someone's retiring or has a birthday then we'll do a flipgrid and everyone will just give them a happy birthday or a happy retirement message um and then you know all of a sudden you've got all these teachers who have tried it and are so surprised how easy it is and they're using it in their classrooms for you know having conversations with students and i work with some teachers who will do like a weekly flipgrid with their students where they'll record themselves as a teacher asking three questions and then the students respond and it's not uh it's not super difficult super simple questions um the point isn't like about homework or anything but that they're using the language outside of the confines of the classroom so they're uh using their phones to take a selfie video of them answering three super super simple questions and just you know kind of what that does to the mind that now all of a sudden the spanish or chinese or french or whatever language we're learning um in the classroom that's not just for the classroom that's a language that is used outside of these walls right and that can be very powerful for students so because i got kicked off i can't share my screen but that's fine we don't need to see any more the last three spot three slides you guys have got that anyways so i hope that um you can take some 10 minutes this this week and and try out flipgrid and i hope that that uh is helpful for you the last thing i want to mention and again kind of a hidden tech tip in this presentation tonight is slides carnival so these beautiful slides and i'll i'm not going to be humble about it because i did not create them um they're free wonderful beautiful templates from slidescarnival.com and so they not only have those nice backgrounds but all those kind of little happy faces and piggy banks and little kind of icons and that are from slides carnival so completely free uh downloading google slides or powerpoint um and they're ready to use they've got beautiful fonts and just sort of uh this one of course is a little more as i'm presenting to adults but they've got some really cool fun slide shows for students so uh some great great great uh great artwork there and some great um a great resource that's completely completely free