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Screen Image of Tool and/or logo:
VoiceThread:



Google Maps:



Does tool require Sign-in?
Voicethread: Yes Google Maps: No

Description of Tool:
Voicethread:

With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with **no software to install**. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds [|images, documents, and videos] and allows people to navigate slides and leave [|comments in 5 ways] - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). [|Share] a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can [|doodle] while commenting, use multiple [|identities], and pick which comments are shown through [|moderation]. VoiceThreads can even be [|embedded] to show and receive comments on other websites and [|exported] to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. (Source: [] )

Google Maps: Google Maps is a Google site where you can view maps from different perspectives. You can see and navigate through different areas from satellite view, map view, or street view. You can also see images of different places. You can virtually navigate through streets and specific landmarks and locations (ie. museums, parks, castles).

How does tool apply to your curricular area? (if your group contains more than one curricular area, give an example in each area)
Voicethread: Based on a specific topic, students can collaborate to create presentations in the target language. Students have the opportunity to hear themselves and others speak the target language, share videos, images, and documents. Students can gain experience practicing and immersing in the language in and out of the classroom.

Google Maps: Students can virtually visit different countries and locations where the target language is spoken. Students can virtually travel through streets, parks, museums, and other landmarks. They can become familiar with the culture and geography. They can also see pictures that users loaded of different locations.

Where does tool fit in Digital Blooms and why?
VoiceThread:

Using VoiceThread students can practice and apply all elements of Digital Blooms. For example, a project could be given where a student has to create a presentation, evaluate and analyze facts, apply vocabulary, understand the language, and remember what they have learned and practiced.

Google Maps:

Students can create a presentation incorporating Google Maps information based on virtual travel, images, and geography. Students can understand and evaluate the different cultures, geographies, and architectures among others.

=Part 2=

Adapted Lesson Plan (Adapted from part of a lesson plan created by Daniel Paniccia for NCTeach)
Lesson Plan: November 18, 2011

=A. Cooperative Learning Lesson=


 * 1) B. Heading

Grades: High School Unit: ¿Qué prefieres comer? Lesson: El plural de los sustantivos/Vocabulary (day 2) 90 minute duration


 * 1) C. Objectives

-Students will be able to change a Spanish noun from singular to plural. -Students will be able to explain the agreement that exists between a Spanish noun and the preceding article. -Students will be able to recite general rules for making a noun plural. -Students will be able to translate the vocabulary in the chapter to from English-Spanish and Spanish-English (working to meet throughout the unit).


 * 1) D. ScoS

-**1.02** Use basic words and short learned phrases during interactions orally and in writing.
 * -2.02** Demonstrate understanding of oral and written questions about familiar topics.

-**2.03** Follow oral and written directions, commands, and requests.
 * -5.02** Identify similarities and differences in the structural patterns in the target language and his/her own language(s).


 * 1) E. Activity

Project will be introduced and students will be grouped:

Students will use VoiceThread to create a presentation based on different Latin American foods that they have researched. Students will have the opportunity to practice the vocabulary that was introduced in unit and will also practice making sentences with plural nouns. Students will break into groups and each group will have a laptop and they will be assigned a country. They will have to introduce the country using what they have learned on Google Maps because each country has different regions and geographies which can affect the food. Students will include up to five facts about their country. Students will then use the internet to find facts about the foods of that country. Students will use their recorded voices using VoiceThread and include pictures and any other resources related to the country. A tutorial will be given beforehand to help students learn VoiceThread and Google Maps.