I have been making videos with Adobe Spark with photos I just happened to have. Those have GOT to be getting boring, kitties and puppies or no. I want to entice more students to engage with this extra practice, and how better to do it than with their peers and THEMSELVES?
I’m not gonna lie, this remote learning situation took me all the WAY back to the drawing board. I couldn’t think of a single thing that I was going to do that would actually be worth trying to do with up-in-the-air, potentially-permanently-ungraded online lessons. So rather than trying to replicate Read more…
I sometimes wonder if I even need Flipgrid. Honestly, I feel like Seesaw can do everything Flipgrid can do better. Almost.
Just as I did with the book clubs, I surveyed my students with a Google Form. I sent the responses to a spreadsheet, and sorted by their reading preferences: most picked alone or in groups. I knew there were some who needed my group anyway
Teenagers need immediate feedback–it’s just a neurological fact. I had been at a loss for how to make that happen with 30+ students, since Nearpod cut me off at 30 and I can only take hearing “You forgot to stamp MY paper!” 20 times a day, max. Fortunately, I have Read more…
If you spend your days reading teaching blogs and connecting with other teachers on Twitter, I’m sure you can relate to my total and utter Spanish student nerdiness. I would spend hours on my bed practicing conjugations and memorizing vocabulary, but when I think back to school, I’m sad to Read more…
“What did you do to these kids this year??” Kimberly was an amazing student last year. She’s one of my THREE Spanish 3 kiddos this year (woohoo! record for non-native speakers!), and, based on her AAPPL results last year, she’s going to be one of our first students to get Read more…
I blame Snapchat filters and Carmen Scoggins. First of all, Snapchat filters are fun, and even with two teen wannabes at home, I wish I had more excuses to play with it. So what did Carmen do at our FLANC spring fling? Give me the excuses. The filters are kind Read more…
I start my class with “Puedos” almost every single day. It makes for an active start to class that also gives me a little time to take attendance and get situated while making sure students can do some basics like pronounce tricky vocabulary, conjugate some essential verb forms, and answer relevant Read more…
I ordered 50 books from Fluency Matters in anticipation of my Spanish 2 animals unit. The thinking was that these would build students’, well, fluency, as well as their contextual vocabulary and grammar as they prepared to make a plan to help their amigos animales. I have been kind of Read more…