Apps+for+learning+CLIL

**PHRASALSTEIN** Another free app from CUP for learning phrasal verbs. The meaning is illustrated in cartoons, and then there are exercises to practise them.


===Encourage learners to download the **FREE DICTIONARY BY FARLEX** App and tell them they can learn the "Word of the Day" every day and read the "Article of the Day" and other texts, as well as play hangman, spelling bee and other games at 3 different levels:===

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===**WHATSAPP** - use this to create class groups where learners can be in touch with you and one another to ask questions about classes, homework tasks, exchange useful links and ideas for lerning English, sound files, and send you pictures you can use for class speaking activities:===

**PREZI** Watch and make your own presentations on Prezi:


===**POETRY** This App allows you to find poems which match different themes (e.g. optimism, doubt, disapointment, joy, etc.) with different topics (e.g. life, youth, love, family, etc.). You can read or listen to some of them. Idea: encourage learners to find a poem they like, learn it by heart, and recite it to the class and comment on why they chose it.===

**SKITCH** allows you to draw arrows on pictures and add text. Ideal for pictures you want to use as part of a presentation, or for sending postcards of places you have visited.


===**TELLAGAMI** is a mobile App that lets you create and share a quick animated video. You can choose what your animated character looks like. Click here for a teacher tutorial on how you can use it for telling stories, describing processes, making a postcard about a place you have visited, sending messages with your own pictures, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D8qJlL_DEk===

**CAMDICTIONARY** scans texts and translate them into different languages:
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===**GOOGLE TRANSLATE** allows you to record your voice in any language and play back the translation in 90+ other languages, as well as see the written translation, and there is a device for scanning and translating written text:===

===**COURSERA** Join over 11 million people doing free university courses in all kinds of subjects - maths, statstics, biology,chemistry, art, music, etc. etc. etc. There are over 1,000 courses to choose from. Fantastic!===

**CHATTERKID** Draw a mouth on any picture, record yourself saying something, decorate the picture if you want, then send it to someone to look and listen:


=APPS AVAILABLE FROM PUBLISHERS AND OTHER SOURCES=

===**Here is a link for more teaching tools: http://www.scoop.it/t/tools-and-ideas-for-your-efl-class and here is one example you might like to try out for telling stories:** **http://www.scoop.it/t/tools-and-ideas-for-your-efl-class/p/1242154547/story-robe-a-storytelling-app**===

===**Here are apps from Macmillan publishers: http://www.macmillaneducationapps.com/** **I strongly recommend you download the free App for the Sound Chart as it allows you to hear all the phonemes of English and practise writing them.**===

=**APPS FOR LEARNING SCHOOL SUBJECTS:**=

===**PLICKERS** Lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a paper a card (a "paper clicker"), and use your iPhone/iPad to scan them to do instant-checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls. Your data is autamatically saved, student-by-student, at plickers.com. Here you can see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMAX2EQnUXE and here is a brief description of how to set it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpx56rjCVjQ#t=67.063===

===**STOP MOTION** Make animated videos of objetcs or people from your photos for as long as you like. Use them as part of presentations, explanations, showing how a process works, how to set up an experiment, make a machine work, etc.===

===**AURASMA** This augmented reality App allows you to scan an image - a word, a picture, a drawing, a wall poster - and then attach a video to it which will play when someone scans it with their smartphone. It can be used to talk about a topic, explain how to solve a maths problem, describe and show an experiment, describe a picture, almost anything. Watch the following tutorials on how to make and use them, and then get learners to create their own examples:Quick denmo for teachers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYm3DRHRuzs and Step by step guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im532nQsPnA and Making an Aurasma for your classroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm2skiMTUJ8 and best of all for teaching ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHIxYpBW7sc===

=**APPS FOR CLIL SCHOOL SUBJECTS:**=

**MATHS APPS:**
===**With MATH FIGHT pairs of learners can see who is quickest at adding, subtracting, etc at diffierent levels of difficulty - the first to answer wins points. Great fun and good for mental arithmetic.**===

**GEOGRAPHY APPS:**
===**GEOGUESSER is a geography game. It will select a place in the world, or a famous place or city, and you have to guess where it is. You can look around and move along and win points depending on how close your guess is.**===

**Your personal video trainer for free! Camera with adjustable delay on playback. Great for fitness and sports.**


===**SPRINT TIMER is a unique sports //timer// and photo finish //app// that employs the same techniques as the fully automatic timing equipment (FAT) used at the Olympics. ** **Start the //timer// and point the camera towards the finish line**. ===

=== **HUDL TECHNIQUE Record. Analyze. Improve. Athletes and coaches in more than 40 sports use //Hudl Technique// to improve through slow motion video analysis. Use your iPhone, iTouch or iPad camera to record and break down your technique for instant feedback during a practice, race or game.** ===

**BITGYM upgrades your cardio machine with stunning interactive trails from around the world.**


===**SWORKIT: WORKOUT & PLANS was voted #1 in an American College of Sports Medicine study by Florida University on instructional exercise standards. No more gym, or weights, or excuses. //Sworkit// is the workout program for people who have felt too busy to workout, beginners, athletes, travelers, people with injuries, the young, the old. **===

===**MAGNUS - THE ART WORLD IN YOUR POCKET Take a photo of any work and the app tells you everything you need to know – the name of the artist, price, the gallery in which it is on display and artist’s exhibition history. This is basically the Holy Grail of art apps.**===

**Here is an App for ICT Teaching:**


=**CREATE YOUR OWN APPS**=

**Visit this website, watch the introductory video, and start making interactive Apps for learning: http://learningapps.org/**
=**KAHOOT**= ===**Go to https://getkahoot.com and create an account. Then create a quiz with 4 options for answers. Tell learners to go to https://kahoot.it/#/ on their mobile devices, enter the PIN number for the game, give themselves a nickname, and then play the game as a class. Great fun!**===

=**SOCRATIVE**= ===**This is similar to Kahoot (above) but has more options and allows your learners to answer questions on any internet device in the classroom. Play real-time quizzes, do immediate surveys in class, or play a space race game. It provides you with reports on the progress and performance of learners. Watch the introduction at: http://www.socrative.com/**===

=**WEBINAR on using Apps**=