ICT AND CLASSROOM DYNAMICS FOR CLIL.
APPS, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS.
As new technologies advance more and more each day, traditional lessons become more and more obsolete. Today, it is usual to see in the classroom that teachers and students use computers, tablets and other electronic digital devices to go on with the contents of the lessons. Moreover, this engineering allow them to be in contact outside the class time and place, making easier communication among them. This is the reason why I would like to share with you all some interesting tools you can use in your devices (tablets, PCs, notebooks) so as to use them totally free. These are going to make your tasks easier than you had ever dreamt!
APPS FOR TABLETS.
Let’s increase yeour tablet’s productivity by installing the following 5 top free android tablet apps.
Turn your Android tablet into a bookshelf full of books with Aldiko Book Reader, one of the best ebook reader app. Aldiko Book Reader for Android tablet is a simple and convenient program for reading books with a simple and minimalist design. You can access thousands of books and many of them are absolutely free. You can search by author, popularity, genre and so on.
2. KINDLE
Kindle is an application for reading books on Android tablet devices providing you with more than a million books to download free and read. Kindle supports JavaScript Amazon Whispersync, which allows you to synchronize bookmarks and download books. You can manually download books on different formats such as mobi, pdf, txt or. docx, and then place them in a folder / sdcard.
3. OFFICESUITE 7 (PDF & HD)
OfficeSuite is one of the best Android tablet apps for creating and editing office documents, which has the support of virtually all known types of documents. This program has all the features like MSOffice computer includes a File Browser and integration with several cloud service. You can open, edit and create: Doc, Xls, PPT, PDF files.
4. BOAT BROWSER
Experience high quality web browsing on your tablet powered by Android OS with Boat Browser Android browser app. It’s fast, smart, easy and intuitive mobile browser. Open pages in tabs and browsing will not be a problem, allowing you to easily access the sites you like. It also has a manager list, which allows you to delete, move and copy very easily.
With the app Wunderlist for Android, it is very easy to manage and share your daily to-do lists, very visual and in great detail. Through the app, you can synchronize all your tasks among different supported devices via Cloud,share lists via email, Twitter, Facebook and a number of other social networks. Wunderlist has notifications and reminders for important tasks that make sure you do not forget, besides the possibility of creating a new task from your email service.
I found these five apps interesting for any student, but there are other interesting ones on the web. Here I leave you some links where you can find more:
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/70-best-free-android-apps-2013-687252
Learning vocabulary is the most fundamental component of acquiring a second language. Use Lingoversity to create your voice supported personal glossary as an at-your-fingertips reference source. Practice your vocabulary and perfect your pronunciation with the aid of your favorite audio podcasts. Keep track of your day-to-day improvement and you will find that learning a language has never been so easy.
APPS AND TOOLS FOR COMPUTERS.
Modern teachers need to know how apps work into their computers, notebooks, i-pads or smart phones. Apps are important tools that offer us computer technologies. There exist an infinite number of them. Each one is useful for develop something, depending on our interests and needs. Below you can chek 5 apps I found which seem very useful for any teacher who intends to explain foreign languages for their students. I hope you find them interesting, helpful and easy to work with. Enjoy them!
Lingoversity
Learn languages with your vocabulary trainer.
Description
Lingoversity is specifically designed to increase your vocabulary in an effective and friendly way. Unlike traditional learning methods, our concept has the power to stimulate, excite and motivate students. Our unique technology guarantees that you will never forget the words you learn.Learning vocabulary is the most fundamental component of acquiring a second language. Use Lingoversity to create your voice supported personal glossary as an at-your-fingertips reference source. Practice your vocabulary and perfect your pronunciation with the aid of your favorite audio podcasts. Keep track of your day-to-day improvement and you will find that learning a language has never been so easy.
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