culture
May 10, 2013
E-magazines with learner appeal
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In my quest to find and review online publishing tools (i.e. sites that will organize your students’ content like a magazine or newspaper) I’ve come across quite a few online magazines designed for our primary audience – middle and high school students. You can find anything I’ve found by looking at my Delicious tags under […]
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August 2, 2012
AP redesign: Units & EQ’s
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The College Board has changed the AP French and German exams this year and aims to make similar (the same?) changes to AP Spanish next year. In light of the coming changes, I decided to get a jump start on redesigning my AP curriculum. I had 9 units + a month exam review + […]
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October 24, 2011
Not your average health unit
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A unit on health is common in Spanish class. We have a unit in Spanish 2 on describing ailments and visiting the doctor. Then in AP I have a unit called “Cuidándome a mí” (taking care of myself). It’s useful -last year’s AP essay was health-related- but for AP I wanted to go beyond the […]
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September 12, 2011
App review: Tour Wrist
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A couple of weeks ago on #Langchat, the Thursday night (8 ET) chat by and for language teachers on Twitter, we discussed iPad (and other iOS) apps that may be useful in the world language classroom. That night I downloaded something like 25 free apps and since then I’ve been on a mission to see […]
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July 10, 2010
Getting vocabulary from a tweet
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You never know what you’re going to pick up from following tweets from pop culture icons like @jesseyjoy or @juanes, or from news sources like Venezuela’s version of Fox News @globovision or Honduran @diariolaprensa. A great tweet came through today as an example. One of my favorite groups, the Mexican trio Camila, tweets mainly through […]
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November 19, 2009
It’s 19 de noviembre!
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http://media.imeem.com/m/X1eVzvIJMO/aus=false/ 19 De Noviembre – Carlos Vives Take advantage of today’s date to play Carlos Vives’ song 19 de noviembre. Here are some ways to use it: Listening: -See if they can hear the date at the beginning without seeing it (Spanish 1). Culture: -Tell students to look under “Historia” in this article to see […]
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October 27, 2009
I recently got permission to download Google Earth and it is addictive. For class, we’ve used it to look at the cropland around the towns in California where Francisco Jimenez grew up as a migrant child. We’ve used it to explore as much as possible the trip up the Orinoco by Alex and the crew […]
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October 25, 2009
Correction on Pin Pon in Shrek
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I blogged about the brilliant use of Pin Pon in the Shrek film (to replace the culturally irrelevant reference to the Muffin Man) here. But since then it appears that video has been removed. The clip is currently available here. (As an added correction I should mention that the tale is actually from a Chilean […]
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October 11, 2009
Juanes’s Paz Sin Fronteras concert was such a big deal on the world politics scene (he’s more deserving of the Nobel PP than Obama, but don’t get me started on that, lol) that it would be a shame for a Spanish teacher to pass up the opportunity to encourage world citizens in our classrooms. Here’s […]
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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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