Universal+Apps

**NOTE:** The following is a list of apps used in my Spanish II & III classes. I am only listing apps we have actually used in class, along with their uses. Please contribute your ideas as well. Remember to include how you and your students have used these apps so that we have a collection of lesson plan ideas.

__Response Apps: **__ This app is simply a red screen and green screen. I have used this app to quickly assess engagement and understanding during lessons, at  beginning or end of class. Simply ask a yes/no, true/false question and ask students to hold up their devices with the appropriate color screen. I loaded it on all our school iPod Touches. (I looked for a link to iTunes for this app, and I don't see that it is available any longer; however, I am sure there is something like it out there if you search)
 * **Red/Green App (Free) **

 Students may use their phones or an iPod Touch from our class set. If students are using an iPod Touch, they will need an external microphone to  make the recording. Students divide (or teacher can assign partners) into groups of 2. Students record a voice memo based on a given topic,  picture, etc. Student "A" e-mails the memo to partner who listens to the recording and gives constructive feedback. I ask all students to find  something positive in the recording and give that information first, then give suggestions for correcting any mistakes. Students change roles and  student. After both students have to listened to their partner's memo and conferred on the good points and mistakes, students are allowed to edit  their recording. Both students e-mail their finished product to me for grading or discussion. Finally, students end the activity by discussing what  liked and disliked about the activity overall. This summative discussion helps students become better peer editors and give me excellent feedback.
 * **__Voice Memo App__ (Native to iDevices) **

 Students can use this app to take notes, answer questions, submit answers to short answer questions, write descriptions of photos, and many other short writing assignments. The beauty is that note pages can be e-mailed to a partner or to the instructor.
 * __Notes App__ (Native to iPhone/iPod Touch not iPad)

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Life Magazine app, which I use for the photos. Students can do a progressive story based on the picture, simple description, use the photo for inspiration on creating sentences in a certain verb tense. Good speaking prompt practice for upper levels of Spanish. Great practice for past tense since the app does have a collection of old photos. App can be used as a catalyst for writing prompts in journal form. (see Evernote below for journal idea)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">__Life App__ (Free)

Time Magazine app used in much the same way as the Life App (above) and the El País app on the Spanish apps page.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">__Time Mobile__ (Free)

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">This app is quite fun to use. Again, if students are using iPod Touch, they will need an external microphone to make their recording. Also, students will need an e-mail address as with all activities on iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad. Students choose a photo to save to their photo gallery or choose a photo they already have. The photo is uploaded (quickly I might add) to the Fotobabble app. Students can do a bit of formatting by cropping the photo and choosing a frame for it. Students then hit the record button. Students have the option to listen to the recording and edit if they would like. Fotobabble creations can be e-mailed or embedded on a website or blog. I have asked students to e-mail Fotobabble creations to me to critique or embed those on their blogs. Sometimes I just listen to them and grade them straight from the blogs. I also ask students to go to classmates' blogs to listen to the Fotobabbles and leave comments. I am embedding a video that was shot about 3 years ago in my classroom. The video is part of a larger overall documentary video about technology use in my school district, so the video of my students using Fotobabble is pieced together from larger segments that were shot that day. Please forgive my nervousness on camera. I am really more of a behind the scenes person.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Fotobabble App (Free)

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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">This app is a great organizational tool and can be used across all content areas. Evernote is a one of those apps that can be very beneficial to students as they advance in high school and enter college. With Evernote, students can create multiple notebooks to store information. These notebooks can remain private or be shared with anyone. Evernote is a universal app that will synch with all devices, so whatever is entered on a mobile device will be synch when the student opens Evernote on a laptop or desktop. Students must create a free account to get started. I use Evernote as a journal. My students can answer open-ended questions, write opinions, etc. Sometimes they respond to a writing prompt, and sometimes write about a photo we find. These journal entries are collected over a period of time, then e-mailed to me for grading or comment. Students can conduct research on a topic and collect all information in one notebook. Students in any level Spanish class can collect all data, photos or links for projects within one notebook. We are also experimenting with a **Learning Goals notebook** that we will use more extensively in second semester. Here is a video of students in a 1:1 program using Evernote for their classes. Notice the young lady at the end of the video lists Spanish as one of the classes in which she uses this app:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">__Evernote App__ (Free)

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">VoiceThread by VoiceThread.com (iPod touch, iPad, iPhone) (Free)

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Flashcard A+ by Thothling (iPod touch, iPhone) ($1.99)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Flipcards by NOMTEK (iPhone, iPod touch) (Free)