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The #mfltwitterati podcast – Celebrating the voices of the modern language teaching community!

Thank you for listening!

Joe and Noah

[1:22] Radar: Celebrating 12 years on Twitter and feeding back about the #mfltwitterati conference including mentions of presentations on the Making of the #mfltwitterati podcast presentation and GoFormative with a hat tip to @JakeMillerTech and Episode 19 of the Educational Duct Tape podcast with Corey Matthias

[2:34] @PhilippaMcDona3 on her #mfltwitterati conference takeaways including Textivate, TeachVid, Gimkit and gamifications

[3:15] Upcoming Badge Summit event in Philadelphia and exploring the power of Wakelet including @toddytd‘s awesome Spotify hack. Todd’s example

Here are the step by step instructions:

Go to the web based version of Spotify and search for your favourite podcast. Copy the link in the address bar starting with open.spotify.com. Go to Wakelet and Create a new collection. Name it and add a cover image. Click on the plus icon and Paste in the URL. Choose Grid View. Choose Public or Unlisted. Click Save and exit. Click on the three dots to the right of Share. Click Embed. Copy the part of the code starting with https://embed.wakelet.com and ending with list. Replace the word List with grid. You now have a URL of podcasts with an embedded play button to play the latest episode or if you click on the Spotify link it will take you to that podcast’s homepage.

Here’s a Wakelet Wake of some of my favourite educational podcasts

[7:29] MFLtwittereati Takeaway #highlightREAL by @SECottrell

[10:23] Real lives exam, the brain child of Nick Mair from Dulwich College in conjunction with Chartered Institute of Linguists. “The Real Lives exam series is a brand new format for testing practical, applied language skills in real life scenarios. Focused this year on listening skills, the series has the potential to be extended to all skills in future.” Sign up form here.

AAPPL exam from actfl.org

[12:45] iOS12.1 globe key change by @ggf_jerf And @_senorbax

[14:52] Linguascope

[15:56] MFL Show and Tell: Mnemonics

[17:42] @charte UNAVOCAT

[19:38] @SrtaMcCarthy AVOCADOS

[21:24] @MissEdmonston BUST

[22:41] @MissNewnham ASSASSIN

[24:09] @maisiemoo3009 DOTTY

[25:51] @JohnMcgeejo ACTION

[27:00] @FrauChid ACTIONS

[28:22] @mhslangs DORITOS

[29:45] @hannity24 BUMFACE

[31:28] @strobertsmfl COMPLEX SPANISH FIRST

[33:03] @mflteacher2 ADORE

[34:20] @UxIgFu PALMWOT DOCTOR

[36:24] @chrismfltandl PROF/PIZZAZZ

[38:17] @missmcconville PROFES

Checkout too:

@danhMFL TWINS and OPINION

@beckyward_ BRATWURST

@RachelHawkes60 LOVEIT

@MissJDA24 CROISSANT

@sharanuku CHIPIRONES

@MissMcConville and @LGBoswell COINS

@JessicaLundx CUDDLES

[40:09] TechTalk interview with Daren White

[44:10] Giving feedback with gifs with Keep and Docs and @CatherineKU72‘s Ma Semaine en Gifs

[49:04] Creating One Stop Animation with Slides (inspired by @JakeMillerTech and #StopMotionSlides. See example by Matt Miller

[55:03] Enabling Voice Typing in Docs to create dictations

[57:57] Running Auto translate with Sheets and creating personalised word banks

[1:00:49] Using the Explore feature in Docs and Sheets.

[1:03:06] A few final thoughts and looking forward to the next episode