My house is so much neater since I discovered Learning Management Systems. Well, I mean, it would be if it weren’t for the first grader and pre-schooler I share it with. But you get my point: no more piles of papers sliding off various surfaces, and my little paperclip stash is Read more…
How can I build a unit around a real-world problem with a real-world audience and maintain maximal target language usage? So much of Project-Based Learning revolves around developing so-called 21st century skills like research, critical thinking, and collaboration, yet we in world languages are tasked with conducting 90% of our class 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…
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…
One of last year’s more memorable Spanish 1 lessons involved blindfolding students and making them touch slimy things. We are preparing for a bake sale so we can ship the supplies we collected for La Laja in Colombia (hopefully, along with some video cameras to share messages between our students Read more…