3 Infographs for Gamification in Novice Spanish
I wish I could infograph all day. Reading infographs, analyzing infographs, creating infographs–and it doesn’t matter the topic. From eyeliner to Einstein, ancient artifacts, augmented reality, or syllabuses: infographs my idea of a supercool hobby. (Note: this is probably why I myself will never actually be supercool.)
What it does
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I pasted this into a Google Drawing (I may have a problem) so students could respond to what they were reading just by moving around some symbols: arrows that said either “cierto” or “falso” and a star that said “¡IMPORTANTE!” (Incidentally, several asked if they had to use the falso arrows because they found so much to be true!)
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What it is
I actually only needed half of this infograph to make my point. So the bottom half is what into their interactive notebooks, basically as their vocab list.
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We went through each elemento and discussed whether or not they thought that element could help them. Also: super easy to do in the TL!
¿Te gustan niveles? ¿Niveles pueden ayudar tu español? ¿Qué niveles tiene la clase de español?
THEN we discussed if SPANISH class had those elementos. Perhaps one of the proudest moments I had was when a couple of kids tried to say students don’t have control with their blogs and two blunt and generally Spanish-apprehensive girls seemed offended that someone even dare SUGGEST that they didn’t have control over their personal practice, their cultural topics, their personal vocabulary–each and every day! It wasn’t exactly a TL takedown, but oo the fire in their eyes!
PS I meant to have students write notes on what Spanish class did and didn’t have next to this infograph, but I didn’t exactly time things right to make that possible.
BONUS: Gamification in action
Now this one’s not “authentic” by any means, but it sure is personalized. In the quest (ha! get it? game? quest?) to give students more control (and in a fit of fly-by-the-seat-pants, to be perfectly honest), I decided to let students suggest and vote on what their premios would be for their Classcraft powers.
So basically I took the infograph I’d made before for breaking down Classcraft powers, copied it, and switched a few things out and got this:
I’m most tickled by the girl who memorized trabajar afuera IMMEDIATELY. (Also really hoping the timing works out with Abuela’s annual trip so she can come show them how to make tortillas like she did a few years ago!)
You will notice the practice with quiero to show comprehension–we also used these powers (and the behaviors that lose you HP) for our examples on the puede page.
