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Multimedia slideshows. Promote speaking and writing with Adobe Spark Video, a free app and web tool. Create presentations combining royalty-free images and icons, then download the results to your device or publish them on the web.Photo story. Remove the background of any selfie with the web tool removebg and insert the results into a presentation tool such as PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides or Book Creator. Add a royalty-free background from and create your own personalised photo story with speech bubbles in any language.Talking avatars. Record yourself speaking for up to five minutes with My Talking Avatar Lite or add an augmented reality filter to your face with the MSQRD app to take on the role of a new character. Turn an inanimate object into a talking character with ChatterPix Kids or practise pairwork with Superhero Comic Book Maker and iFunFace.Live titles. Speak into the Clips app and see subtitles appear automatically in real time, in the language you have chosen. You can add a voiceover to videos and still images too. Practise sound-spelling links and produce creative videos with filters, captions and animations to revise lesson content.Speaking homework. Practise listening and speaking skills using the voice recording function in Padlet. Choose the Shelf format to create different columns and assign one column per student. Record different questions in column one and ask students to record their answers to each question in their own column. Give written feedback for each answer so students can re-record if necessary.Animated verbs. Use the camera option in the ImgPlay app to turn a student’s mime of a verb into an animated GIF. Insert the results into presentation software so the GIF loops forever, reinforcing the meaning of the verb.Draw your own. Using PicsArt Animator, create a drawing representing some vocabulary or a grammar point. Choose the duplicate slide feature after each stroke so you can play it back as an animation. Export the results as a GIF or video.Talking picture. Draw an image in Keynote, apply the Line Drawing animation and add a voiceover to practise speaking skills and channel students’ creativity. Add a text box and animate the text using, for example, the typewriter animation. Run all the animations at the same time and export the results as a video.Texting stories. Practise writing dialogues and turning them into video clips or GIFS using TextingStory. Add emojis to create a gap-fill with accompanying comprehension questions, which you can play in a presentation tool such as PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides.Virtual treasure hunt. Promote problem solving skills by creating your own map using Google My Maps and sharing it with students. Give them a set of clues in the target language and ask them to find the answers by exploring your map in Google Street View mode.Flip the classroom. Make a grammar screencast or find one on YouTube. Create a listening comprehension exercise using Edpuzzle. Add multiple-choice questions and ask students to overdub the video with their own voice.Flipgrid. Use Flipgrid to create a grid and topic. Record a question for your students and ask them to post an answer in the target language and give each other feedback. Let them upload videos they’ve previously made too, as well as add captions and emojis over their videos.Speedy drawing. Use AutoDraw to draw simple pictures and convert them into professional-looking, downloadable clip art for revising vocabulary or practising grammar. Create individual pictures or scenes made up of different images for your multimedia projects. Play Pictionary as a whole class activity.Video feedback. Use tools such as Screencastify or Screencast-O-Matic to record your screen and your voice and save the results as a video. This is great for giving students feedback on a text they’ve written in a word processing package such as Word, Google Docs or Pages.Voice typing. Practise pronunciation by using voice typing in Google Docs to convert your voice into text in a range of languages, including French, German and regional variations of Spanish, among many others.Get interactive. Create an interactive presentation using Mentimeter and ask students to give their opinions of the different question types. As their replies appear on screen, respond to their answers dynamically in the target language and ask them to answer in kind. Export the results as a PDF or image as evidence of their work.Build an e-portfolio. Ask students to use Book Creator to create an e-book of all the multimedia outcomes they’ve produced for a unit of work, showcasing their speaking and writing.Create a magazine. Use Flipboard to collect interesting articles around a theme, to share with your students in a magazine format. Encourage your A-level students to enable the regional edition of the Flipboard app so they can search for articles from the country they are studying – ideal for their independent research project.Improve your fluency. Use CuePrompter to turn your web browser into a teleprompter. Record yourself reading your transcript using voice recorders such as Voice Record Pro 7, SpeakPipe, RecForge II or RecordMP3Online while your text scrolls down the page.Social media CPD. Follow the #mfltwitterati on Twitter or join Facebook groups such as Secondary MFL Matters and Global Innovative Language Teachers for unlimited professional support. Subscribe to the #MFLTwitterati Podcast for a monthly fix of innovative ideas from the MFL teaching community. ................
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