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= //**This wiki is designed to support and inspire MFL teachers at Westfield to get the best use out of our dedicated ICT suite.**// =



 * ===to boost student independence, engagement and creativity ===
 * ===to give staff the raw materials to plan 21st century learning experiences suitable for the Playstation Generation ===
 * ===to reduce dependence on well-worn websites which 'keep 'em busy' but do not develop higher level language use ===

I have created a starter pack of websites and resources to use below. Please comment on how you get on!

Writing practice
[|Go Animate!] Students can create animations with captions and speech bubbles. Great for putting together NCL2-3 dialogues. [|ToonDoo] Create comic strips. [|Glogster] Students can create amazing interactive poster pages using audio/video clips, images, text. Very simple to use and education-safe.

Speaking practice
[|Voki] Students can create their own animated character and then record sound files. Very cute! Suitable for KS3 and KS4 presentation preparation. If you would like further info about how to use this tool, visit the [|Box of Tricks].

[|PodOmatic] [|Gcast] Students create their own podcasts.

Vocabulary Development and Mindmapping
[|Bubbl.us] Very quick startup flowcharting tool - no signup! [|Wordle] A very simple site producing visually pleasing word-clouds from text provided by you. Great display potential, and lovely for word-level work and vocabulary development by theme / topic / gender etc [|Mindomo] An easy-to-access mindmapping tool [|Mindmeister] A free mindmapping tool

Resources for peer review /AFL / collaborative work
[|Voicethread] Collaborative asynchronous conversation tool. [|Skrbl] Online whiteboard tool

Reference
[|WordReference] An online dictionary

[|Lingro] Amazing dictionary service allowing access to challenging target language materials. This is an incredibly powerful tool.

Games
[|Classtools] A great website where you can easily build your own little flash games [|Chez mimi] Channel 4 game linked to series. MFL games Basic vocabulary games

Culture and Music
[|Seeqpod] A searchable online music mashup - easy to find and play tunes from around the world.

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