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September 25, 2009
The website of the Latin Recording Academy has undergone a serious makeover, and I have to say it is COOL. More importantly, the nominations for the Latin Grammys are out!! This is an important way for me to see what’s new and what’s popular-I’m always embarrassed at how few names I even recognize on the […]
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September 24, 2009
Certain things are super easy to find songs for. Reflexives. Present tense, particularly yo y tú. Preterite yo y tú. That’s about all love songs do, right? Talk about you and me in the past, lol. But the other day my colleague asked if I knew of any songs for 3rd-person preterite, and that was […]
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September 24, 2009
I just made my first Yodio
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I love professional conferences, particularly KWLA! What could be better than a bunch of awesome teachers getting together and sharing their best practices? That’s how I found out about Yodio. My students in Spanish 3 today wandered the school taking pictures of teachers and staff “commanding” people to do things. They’ve written the commands and […]
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September 20, 2009
This is the presentation I did for the fall conference of the Kentucky World Language Association. And here is the handout.
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September 20, 2009
Found Juanes on Twitter
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You should follow Juanes on Twitter! He’s tweeting right now about his ground-breaking concert for peace at the Plaza de la Revolución in Cuba. He’s @juanestwiter; note that there’s only one ‘t’ in the middle of twiter.
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September 20, 2009
For you French teachers
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This weekend I was at the fall conference of the Kentucky World Language Association (phenomenal!) and after I gave my presentation on YouTube and pop music, it occurred to me I should have offered the French teachers present the url of my favorite French-teaching cyberamiga Diane (@parisprimrose), Foreign Language Fun.
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September 20, 2009
Check out this post at one of my favorite blogs, WannaJugarWithMigo to see how to win a cool bilingual toy from one of my favorite cyberamigas, @mamitati.
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September 15, 2009
My husband is a bit of a tennis buff and so we were watching the US Open final yesterday and watched Argentinian Juan Martín del Potro defeat Federer in a stunning upset. In the awards ceremony, del Potro gave a short speech in Spanish (at 1 mins 15 sec). I thought, that’d be very interesting […]
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September 8, 2009
CNN launches Latino in America
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Embedded video from CNN Video Follow them on twitter– @LIACNN
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August 29, 2009
I blogged about my favorite 5a Estación song, La Frase Tonta de la Semana, here and here. The second time I reported that the music video had been taken down for violation of copyright. Good news, Sony BMG has the videoclip oficial up on the La Quinta Estación YouTube channel, along with the duet with […]
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August 29, 2009
I am in technology heaven
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Kids motivated by technology? Want to get them creating AND listening to their own Spanish? This could be the most revolutionary tool I have seen for my classroom in a long time. I made this video in about twenty minutes. http://www.xtranormal.com/players/jwplayer.swfhttp://www.xtranormal.com/players/embedded-xnl-stats.swf
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August 26, 2009
Today my AP students will do what they do every Wednesday–give a 2-minute oral presentation based on a print source and an audio source, involving some type of synthesis and persuasion. Our current unit (in my own curriculum) is called “Un Pasado que Me Construyó” and is intended to practice and develop command of the […]
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