You could just assign a writing task to see what they can do. And they could just run the whole thing with a translator. You could have them upload a video of themselves speaking. And they could script the whole thing–and then run it through a translator. You could have Read more…
I need to know two things about the students who will make up my first ever online class: Who they are What they can do I’ve only really taught a Spanish III class once before, though I’ve had 3s mixed in with 2s and one brilliant and motivated independent study student Read more…
Gone are the days of laborious infograph building in Microsoft Word. No longer must I link page after page to convey semester essentials! Now I make a single infograph syllabus on Piktochart to convey the basics of the course, download the image in .jpg or .png form, then upload it to my ThingLink stream to Read more…
I believe that simple resource curation and evaluation are among the most useful skills for 21st century learners to practice. Curation and evaluation are also valuable ways to exercise interpretive reading and listening for a real-world purpose in the world language classroom. Using key words to search provides context, maybe Read more…
I had seen a few people picking their word for the year when my Super Pinner colleague suggested I take the project bilingual. So I made a Spanish version of Mique’s awesome resolution page. I’m looking forward to reinforcing our school-wide “One Word” campaign in the target language and maybe Read more…