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Miscellaneous apps for the classroom

Resources for digital storytelling or digital poetry: http://play.magneticpoetry.com/poem/original/kit http://www.piclits.com http://languageisavirus.com/visualpoetry Twine http://twinery.org   Music apps: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ (As a science teacher, can be useful to explain waves and oscillation)   Virtual reality Google Earth VR Google resources for Education using VR:  https://edu.google.com/products/vr-ar/expeditions/?modal_active=none Advantages of using VR in the classroom: Presence of …

Youtube for education (by a fellow French teacher):

Notes from an in-class presentation: youtube.com/education Has content that has been vetted classroom-appropriate. For learning languages, allows the students to hear the proper accent, and pay attention to different accents. Benefits of teaching with videos (short of physically travelling to the country): Immersion, Cognition, Motivation How to incorporate Youtube in …