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Seesaw vs Flipgrid
I sometimes wonder if I even need Flipgrid. Honestly, I feel like Seesaw can do everything Flipgrid can do better. Almost.
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I sometimes wonder if I even need Flipgrid. Honestly, I feel like Seesaw can do everything Flipgrid can do better. Almost.
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…
I don’t feel like keeping up with coros or listening practice this year, but I do want to keep the weekly infusion of energy from learning a new song. What’s more, I want to tap into the message from the recent AATSPSC keynote and give kids a little more control, a Read more…
I’ve failed at Persona Especial. I can think of nothing more admirable and relevant and beneficial than making your students your curriculum. But as I have failed at becoming Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell in the past, I have failed at becoming Bryce Hedstrom. I run out of patience and so do the Read more…
This year I shared some of my favorite resources: from music to social media, authentic texts to tech tools. I also shared some strategies that have worked really–I mean REALLY–well for me, as well as some that are still evolving. I’ve also shared posts about what NOT to worry about, Read more…
First world problems are so 2015. Still, I thought that brainstorming problems they could personally relate to would inspire and motivate the young inventors in my class to come up with something, you know, useful. Little did I know that current events across the Caribbean would prove more inspiring. Read more…
I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that pizza and ranch is a thing. But when one of my students drew it next to her name for her first card talk, it got my wheels turning. We OBVIOUSLY had to start with the verb gustar if we were going to talk about Read more…
Two of my favorite Seesaw features are drawing and labels. Combine them with comments and student selfies, and you can have a quick and easy casting call! The casting call can be used to demonstrate a variety of communicative skills: interpretating character descriptions summarizing interpreted facts presenting biographical information I Read more…
If there’s one thing that catches my students’ attention as surely as music, it is memes. Sure you can have students read memes for some authentic input. But how exciting is it to see what kind of jokes and jabs they can come up with? And it doesn’t matter if meme generators Read more…
So my master plan to improve listening through music and the coros bellringer pretty much fizzled. Music is still THE number one way to hook students right off, but it kind of loses its magic if I do it every day of every week, ALL. SEMESTER. LONG. As I’ve been going through this Read more…