We are working on a new draft educational application for learning languages \u200b\u200bbased mainly on dictation. In other games, " The Peacock and the Crane " and " The fox and the grapes ", and include dictation, but not had been overly happy with the result because it seemed too complex texts for elementary students. This new tool has the following characteristics:
- is based on the "Text to Speech" in Google Translate to pronounce any text you write in multiple languages. In this way we have absolute freedom in choosing the dictates sentences. We encountered a problem when using the sounds of the TTS in our hosting because we can not modify the crossdomain.xml and then security constraints not loaded. I solved using a proxy in PHP appearing on this page created by Abdul Qabiz .
- As TTS voice sounds a little artificial and it is sometimes difficult to understand, we added the ability to use sound recordings in mp3. To get good sound we have discovered in Training and Resource Tatoeba project, which are experiencing the most common phrases in various languages. Its contents are licensed CC and very well, so we incorporated.
- use Google Spreadsheets to create lessons. This saves us create forms and databases and have an open tool for creating lessons. Anyone can create a spreadsheet on Google docs as the previous image and publish it in ATOM format (button Share - Publish as web page - ATOM) with the sentences handed down.
still working to improve it, but you can try here . We have set the phrases related to a matter of English Secondary 2 and other useful when traveling. If anyone is interested in working or doing some testing, you can leave us a comment or send an email to asalinasci@gmail.com.
closed on Friday at the Second Congress Zaragoza School 2.0 in which we had chance to participate. As we by here, we were presenting our work in www.vedoque.com . We split the job and I (Antonio) began presenting the web: getting started, our starting ideas ... Then Mary Jesus undertook to explain how to use Vedoque in the Classroom with the fundamental idea of \u200b\u200busing the game to build learning. Here You can view the presentations:
soon publish the video to exposure in the media library section of Congress page. When you do link to here, meanwhile you can see all the experiences delivered on day 13 already published. All we saw were very good live. Colleagues from the Canary Islands, José Marcelo González Pérez and Luz Marina Ramirez War, showed us how to use the platform Chamilo, an interesting alternative to Moodle. We drew special attention to the collaborative activity for the area of \u200b\u200bEnglish. On 14
want to emphasize to our countrymen in Murcia:
- The city as interactive teaching resource for Social Sciences. Luis Antonio Pérez Ortiz .
- School 2.0 digital units. Antonia Pérez Maite Nadal and Donato Pujalte.
addition to classroom experiences, we were in several round tables and conferences in the opening and closing. Now we have much work to do, see the communications that could not attend and that other students said they had been interesting.
Another great experience was meeting personally Celestino Arteta, who knew from his work to promote ICT in Education. I also like to meet again Blonde Manuel Jesus who was my professor in the Master of Secondary Education at the University of Almeria and is another major driver of ICT in the classroom.
Our findings of Congress, three very intense days of sharing experiences, learning, meeting people and looking forward innovative and capacity to improve education. We wish to thank, as we did in Twitter, all attendees to our presentation and the heads of the Ministry of Murcia for inviting us. Also to all advisers Murcia CPR with whom we share the post-conference.
Arriving Congress did not know that participants voted for choosing classroom experiences more he liked them. We were lucky to get the 4 th prize.
(If you have time, will tell you more things because the truth is that as we have said, three days have been particularly intense and inspiring. We need to talk about ARASAAC , television online at school, from work Secondary areas, card covers, Vitorinos ...)