Fiona Boughey presented on using Google Apps for language teaching. She discussed creating Google Earth tours to share virtual field trips with students and using Google Video and Forms to create online video comprehension activities. Students can watch authentic videos in the target language and complete the associated quizzes in Google Forms at their own pace from any internet-connected device. Teachers can view student results and scores in a generated spreadsheet.

1. Google Apps for the
Languages Classroom
#afmlta13

2. Contact Details
Fiona Boughey
St Paul’s Grammar School
@FionaR_B
Fiona.Boughey@stpauls.nsw.edu.au
frenchclassroom.wordpress.com

4. Why Google?
Multi-modal
Personalised
Collaborative
Interactive
Free

6. Google Earth Tours
Tours are a guided experience where you fly from one
location to another, view terrain and content and look
around as you wish. You can create tours that record your
exact navigation in the 3D window and even add audio.
You can then share these tours with other Google Earth
users
http://support.google.com/earth/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=148174

7. Use the search box to find the starting
point you want.

8. Zoom in or out and change the aspect
until your are happy with how it looks.
Click on the yellow pin to add
a placemark and name it.

9. Continue the above steps until you
have the amount of places you
want for the tour.

10. Double click on your first place to go
back to the start.
Click on the record
tour button

11. Start recording the tour, double click on each
new place in the left-hand “Places” box to
zoom to the next place.
Just record
Record
with voice

12. Save the tour and right-click to email it for
sharing.

13. Personalise, motivate,
time-mange
Why use
Google Apps?

14. Google Video + Forms = Authentic
Listening/Viewing Activity
Use Google forms to make a comprehension quiz about
an authentic video in the target language.
Students access everything online which means it can be
done anywhere there is internet access.
Results are easily viewed in a spreadsheet generated by
the Google form.

15. Search using Google video – you will find
more results
Watch the video and
write questions – multiple
choice, short answer,
gap-filling etc.

16. Optional – Find the embed code to paste
into a wiki or blog.

17. Click to create a form in Google Drive

18. Enter in the questions you wrote for your
video

19. Choose to share your form with a link (to
email) or the embed code for blogs and wikis

20. Sharing with Students
The simplest way to share
is to give students the link
to the video and to the
form, the idea is that they
watch the video and
answer the questions at
their own pace.
 Optionally, embedding both
the video and the Google form
into a wiki or blog make the
activity more streamlined and
easy to share. But this does
require a deeper knowledge of
how blogs and wikis work.
 Here is an example of one I did
with a class earlier.

21. What next?
 Please contact me or speak to
me during the conference and
I would be happy to walk you
through the ideas presented
today.
 I hope the handouts provide
you with something to take
home and investigate.
 Fiona Boughey
 St Paul’s Grammar School
 @FionaR_B
 Fiona.Boughey@stpauls.nsw.edu.au
 frenchclassroom.wordpress.com