Real world application: Spanish I coming in handy for my son’s 5thbirthday party I have become the Spanish teacher that lets her class make piñatas. We spend a total of nearly two weeks on them. I should be ashamed, shouldn’t I? But what if I told you that this mini-project Read more…
I called up a former student who is an EMT and for whom Spanish class did not quite go far enough: excerpts of our conversation can be found under “Los problemas” in the app I made on appsbar.com as an entry event for the First Aid unit. You can see, and use, a preview Read more…
Google Reader is making grading blogs possible for me. Other teachers have discovered the wonder of feed readers like Google Reader before, of course, but here are some tricks I have been using with Google Reader to manage my COMPASS mini-class blogs. When I just have a single weekly blog Read more…
The first day, I’ll give students a survey to let them rate the which Driving Questions capture their interest the most on a scale of “Now that I know this is an option, I cannot enjoy class without exploring this” to “I could get into this” to “Please, I think Read more…
I’m getting some Problem-based learning (PBL) training straight from the Buck Institute less than 2 miles from my house! Free bonus: a longtime #langchat buddy is helping deliver the instruction! Speaking of delivery, we’re to come away from each of the 3 sessions with a “deliverable,” or a demonstration that Read more…
Image via Jijo Sunny 1. Tweet per pageI presented a page from America (with vocabulary preview), along with this tweet: Escribe un tuit para página 8 y otro para página 9 en la voz de #América #srasxtn #Esp2— Laura Sexton (@SraSxtn) February 24, 2012 We discussed (IN SPANISH!!) the main problems Read more…
I talked my school into Glogster Premium accounts for everyone about a year ago, for the purposes of building our e-portfolio component. I do not regret it, but we are now ready to move on. I had been so frustrated by the limited, list-like functions of ThinkQuest and what seemed Read more…
I don’t know how I survived midnight feedings without a smartphone and Twitter the first time. During my maternity leave, I have not been as connected to my students as I had envisioned (the Edmodo app was not as…convenient as Tweetdeck for one-handed midnight manipulation by phone), but I have spent plenty Read more…
The cameras are all here! The supplies are almost all sorted! If we can get a couple of bigger boxes, double-check inventory, and just get our hands on the memory cards, everything will be just about ready to ship to La Laja in Colombia! That means it is time to Read more…
Spanish III used Diigo to take notes on the lives of prominent Spanish and Mexican artists (plus 1 cubano and 1 uruguayo). English I will use it to take notes on agricultural practices that could be used in Nigeria. The advantages to using Diigo note-taking in general for me: No Read more…