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November 7, 2013
Calm before the excitement!
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I know, I know – things have been really quiet on the blog lately! But there are good reasons for that. I have been slightly (or really) buried under two big projects. I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and you’ll be seeing it soon too. Look for some BIG announcements very […]
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October 17, 2013
Fluff alert! Guys, you can quit reading now – unless you have a significant other who is a busy mom who needs to streamline her routine! I rarely do this but this post has nothing really to do with teaching. Recently I spent some time looking for a makeup routine that really worked for me […]
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August 1, 2013
It’s August and for many of us that means it’s time to start back to school! Sales are in full swing at the stores where I live and families are stocking up on everything from crayons to uniforms. It’s going to be a great month on Musicuentos. I’ll be sharing some of my favorite tips […]
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June 24, 2013
Today’s my birthday which means it’s been one year since musicuentos.com launched (moved off of musicuentos.blogspot.com). This site was my birthday present last year, and this year for my birthday my personal webmaster (a.k.a. my husband) added some more features I’d asked for, which means you get my birthday present too! First, Twitter recently made […]
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June 14, 2013
A world with no magazines
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I recently read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I don’t recommend it but I caught this great quote: Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet. I used to be a writer. I was a writer who wrote about TV and movies […]
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April 17, 2013
Maternity leave!
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In case you weren’t aware, I am expecting our third child around the first week of May. Yes, I did just have a baby last June – God’s plans for us seem to be a lot bigger than our plans for ourselves! This addition is changing our lives in many ways, including jobs. In the […]
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December 5, 2012
It pays to have a focus
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When I first started teaching, if you had asked me what my one goal was in my Spanish class, I think I would have answered, “To get through the book.” We used a college textbook at the time, divided into two years. In Spanish 1 and 2 in my classes, we finished the entire book […]
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August 22, 2012
Four years ago September 1, I began to blog my journey to be a more proficiency-based, communicative, effective teacher in the Spanish classroom. What a profitable experience blogging has been! Your comments and comradery have benefited me more than I think I even know. In honor of my blogiversary, I’m feeling the spirit of giving, and you […]
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July 9, 2012
The Case for Commands
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Earlier this year when I went to the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, I attended some helpful, creative sessions by some very knowledgeable and effective language teachers and leaders. One of them was about proficiency goals and was given by the director of world languages of a large school district. I […]
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July 5, 2012
Got idioms?
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If you’ve taught language for any length of time, you know that the more students map their English onto their second language, the more garbled their production can get, and the more frustrated everyone involved can get. They think they can do a lot because they’re spouting a lot of words, but the way the […]
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July 3, 2012
If you like Musicuentos, like the Musicuentos Facebook page. You’ll get updates on blog posts and be able to start and join in on discussions related to world language teaching and learning. Join the conversation now!
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June 27, 2012
5…4…3…2…1… LAUNCH!
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And here we go! Welcome to musicuentos.com, the brand new home of my blog, formerly at musicuentos.blogspot.com. After four years of blogging with blogspot, why the move? Well, for one thing, it was just time for a change, and I’d been thinking about and talking about how to change and improve my blog […]
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