Correcting errors is not really a priority for me as a Spanish teacher or an English teacher anymore. Drawing attention to patterns of errors, though? That is my job. So I’ve found a colorful way to help students see the pattern and then do something about it. I first tried this collage Read more…
I’m not using Google Classroom quite as much as I did last year. Uploading videos and submitting shared work have been big hassles. Also scrolling through and finding previous assignments to add to portfolios? It’s been a bit time consuming. Seesaw, however, solves those problems. Gone are the days of Read more…
I have a handful of secret weapons that make my web experience–and my students’–smoother and more productive, and several of them are free in the Chrome Web App store. Extensity First of all, if you’re going to have more than one or two extensions, and you need to function at Read more…
I start the semester with passion projects. I end the semester with passion projects. It brings a sort of unity to the whole semester and gives kids a sense of relevance, of purpose for the whole studying Spanish thing. Now this does mean a little extra tap dancing on my part, Read more…
I resolved to do less in 2015, and I achieved that, partially through Google Classroom, partially through more careful vocabulary and language selection, partially through a carefully designed focus on performance and proficiency. Some of it was just deciding to stop while I was ahead. And so this year, instead of Read more…
My goal with the second IPA of a unit is to help students reflect on their final product and how they want it to turn out. Drawing inspiration from Sra. Toth and Sra. Placido’s Kiva videos, I’ve already planted the seed for students to try to convince others to carry Read more…
Goodness knows I’ve done some experimenting with portfolio platforms. I’m pretty satisfied with the VoiceThread option at the moment, but when my Pinnacle amigo, @jkylewood demonstrated Seesaw (that’s web.seesaw.me NOT seesaw.com, by the way) after #langchat amiga @alenord had already been talking it up, I saw something broader than portfolios. Now Read more…
Ayudando Ando sent me a list of over 50 things that the rural mountain school they sponsored needs: Of course we couldn’t get all 50+ things on the list (much less ship them). But we could use that list as a starting point for our project. And as a perfect excuse Read more…
Google Classroom, how do I love thee? Not only has Classroom helped me all but wipe out late work, but now it also lets me ahead and make and save drafts of assignments until I’m ready to release them to my eager padawans. However, two of Classroom’s other more recent features Read more…
I went and rearranged e-portfolios again. As if I didn’t have enough portfolio templates already. My colleague talked me out of the interactive infograph portfolio. She’s pretty much our tech whiz, so if Sra. Payseur says it’s too many steps to upload an image to ThingLink, create four VoiceThreads, upload Read more…