Lori Hébert teaches at Urban School in SF. Chinese, Spanish and French. Her new web site is at GoLingual
Evolving Tools:
Online Textbooks with Resources such as audio and video. Most students leave their textbooks at school.
Interactive Whiteboards
She teaches with a lot of Flash with her SMARTBoard. She sets up galleries of images, audio, video or flash so she can pull her lessons together easily.
She puts her SMART Notebooks into the conference in FirstClass that all students and teachers can access. Students in the past have taken these and created review documents.
Projects the students now do are totally different. They used to do posters, songs, home movies. While they still do this, they now also do Dynamic multimedia shows, music videos, documentaries, and others that continue to come from her students. The use of the SMARTboard allows for interaction that engages the students while also allowing the students to internalize and connect to the concepts.
For recording they use Audio Recorder, (free) Sound Studio ($79.95) and QuickTime Pro ($29.95).
Because the students are creating so many examples of digital work, they are creating Progressive Portfolios. They use FirstClass to store their files over the course of the 4 years.
iFLash ($14.95) allows you to make flash cards with images and audio. Two sided and can be created by students or teachers. Can be put on their iPods. This will be something very useful for the Foreign Language classes when we do laptops.
Skype and xLingo (Language Exchange Network) offer much promise.
Digital Stream is a conference that really jump started her use of the technology.
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