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September 17, 2010
Prompts with Power: Prezi
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Here’s the Prezi for Prompts with Power.
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September 15, 2010
These are the promised German and French resources from my presentation, “Prompts with Power.” Hausegemacht.tv Radio on demand Morganpost TV on YouTube More radio on dradio For both French and German, a print source I mentioned a few posts back, Ads of the World. Also change your Google settings to show pages in German/French as […]
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September 15, 2010
This is a writing or speaking prompt I’m making available as a follow-up to my upcoming presentation called “Prompts with Power.” Prezi coming soon. The prompt is: ¿Deben los jóvenes salir con novios en el colegio? My favorite audio source for this is from Patito Feo, a teen drama out of Argentina – it’s a […]
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September 15, 2010
KWLA Presentation: PLN-ology
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Here’s my Prezi for the three-hour workshop @jannachiang and I are doing at the annual fall conference of the Kentucky World Language Association, this weekend in Lexington. The title is “PLN-ology” and the topic is how to use online tools, specifically Twitter, the eduPLN on NING, and Delicious social bookmarking, to enhance professional development (and […]
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September 14, 2010
Tweet with double objects
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This tweet from @Fonseca came through just now–why not use it to see how your students do with the double objects? Plus his use of ‘q’ and ‘super’ are fun. “En Bogota hay un restaurante q se llama “EL COMEDOR”, se los super recomiendo! Buenisimo!”
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August 31, 2010
The Pbs Kids website’s Maya & Miguel section not only has a nice selection of Spanish fun, but one of the features is an interactive comic creator, in which you select the background and then choose which words you want to use and which pictures match the words. Wait– it’s in Spanish, you choose the […]
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August 30, 2010
I’m always on the lookout for authentic print and audio sources. I’m convinced that we should be feeding our students authentic audio and print from the very beginning. I think there’s something they can understand in just about anything. (My 1st graders today were “reading” the cuentos on Playhouse Disney Latino’s website.) I think if […]
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August 15, 2010
Added some great new links
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I’ve tweaked some of my links on the right – added a couple of “communicative bloggers” and some “communicative tools” including a FANTASTIC YouTube channel for anyone who’s raising bilingual kids or teaches Spanish to children. I also finally replaced the old Yahoo radio link with a new link to my Pandora station, so you […]
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August 12, 2010
My supply list
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I just made my supply list for this year. It’s been whittled down a lot this year. The actual one has a clip-art face on it but I don’t think that uploaded well to Google Docs. 🙂 (Disclaimer: I should add that I teach advanced electives at a private school that doesn’t have the faculty […]
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August 7, 2010
About three years ago I finally obeyed the inner voice that was yelling at me that textbooks were terribly unmotivating and out-of-date as soon as they were printed and we closed our textbooks forever and haven’t looked back, in Spanish 1 through 3 anyway (we do use a workbook some in AP to get students […]
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July 29, 2010
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in May passed a new policy statement on the use of the target language in the classroom – 90% or above at all levels. It’s about time that we as language teachers realize that 1) language education in the US doesn’t work because we don’t speak […]
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July 15, 2010
A tweet from @samocamila, he’s just full of fun stuff these days: A todos los fans les mando un besote!!!, tengo mucha emoción por cantar para ustedes esta noche en premios juventud, los amo!. Úsalo para practicar la diferencia entre por y para, y no te pierdas la oportunidad de enfocarse a los estudiantes en […]
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