Technology and TPRS

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Technology and TPRS

PowerPoint Ideas:

1. Storytelling

2. Kindergarten Day/Intro to FVR Books

3. Replacing Overheads

• Overheads are:

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© Bulky

© Slippery

© Messy

© Often B&W

© Limited in some ways

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4. Virtual Visits to Various Views

• When field trips are impractical

5. Student Stories for Class Listening

6. Review Games

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• Ladder to the Stars

• Easy Jeopardy

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7. Karaoke Songs

• Christmas Songs

• Other Songs

8. Reading and Listening

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• Reading together as a class

• Fill-ins for Songs

• Fill-ins for tapes

Non-PowerPoint Technology:

1. DVDs: A TPRS Teacher’s Dream

• Always check the back of the case to make sure the DVD is in the language you need.

• Make sure it works on your DVD player before class starts.

• Some DVDs work for Europe, but not for the US, and vice versa. Check with your player’s manufacturer to see if it can switch.

2. Read-Along DVDs

• Check the DVD player to make certain the DVD works on it.

3. Home-made Movies

• Take your camera or video camera to familiar locations in your area and then discuss them.

4. Internet Audio

• French.about.com

– Audio lab (in left side bar)

• Les chiots

• Many Textbooks

• Annenberg/CPB www.learner.org

– Destinos

– French in Action

5. Internet Virtual Tours

• Museums

– http://museoprado.mcu.es/home.html (Prado en español)

– http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp (Louvre en français)

• Cities

• Major events

6. Online Free Books

• http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html

• http://www.gutenberg.org

7. Computer Programs

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• Oscar Lake

• Carmen Sandiego version 2

– In French and Spanish

– Check compatibility!!!

• Many learn at home programs

• Encyclopedias in the language

• Veo Veo from Scholastic (Spanish)

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http://www.wor.com (World of Reading)

8. Online Games

• http://www.boowakwala.com/

– Spanish, French

• http://www.readinga-z.com/samples/index.html

– $30/6 months up to $75/1 year, discount for 10 or 50+

• http://www.quia.com/ http://www.quia.com/pages/odsp.html (odfr.html)

9. Champs-Élysées/Puerta del Sol

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• http://www.champs-elysees.com/

• Current news features.

• Extensive cultural notes.

• $89 for 6 month subscription for CÉ

• $99 for 1 year subscription for Puerta del Sol

• $89 for 5 month subscription for Schau ins Land

• $99 for 1 year subscription for Acquerello italiano

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10. Upper Students

• Video tape skits for lower levels to watch.

• Teatro de Cuentos de Hada

• Une pièce sur la Révolution Française

• Spanish Mighty Mini-plays

• French Mighty Mini-plays

• German Mighty Mini-Plays

11. Tape Off TV

• Cable

• Satellite

Technical Tips and Tricks

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• Polderbits – for recording any old tapes or **gasp** records onto your computer

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• Swish – for making flash type media

http://www.swishzone.com

• Dazzle/Pinnacle Studio – for recording from a VCR to computer

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• ClickBook http://www.bluesquirrel.com -- to make little booklets easily

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Hyperlinking in PowerPoint

1. Highlight what you want to click on during the show to make you jump to another slide. This can be a word, a line of text, or an object of some kind.

2. On the menu at the top, select INSERT and then HYPERLINK (you can also use CTRL-K or the icon on the tool bar).

3. Choose where you want to go when you click on that link.

a. Web page or existing file

b. Place in this document

c. Create new document

d. E-mail address

4. Click OK.

è The hyperlinks will ONLY work when you are SHOWING the presentation.