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December 27, 2010
I love collaboration
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Ever since someone said something about not reinventing the wheel it seems we’ve all been in a search to see how much of our work other people have already done. Right? Not really. Actually we still have a tendency to shut ourselves in our classrooms and overwork ourselves and burn out doing things that hundreds […]
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October 1, 2010
Want to guide your advanced students through a culturally-relevant novel by a Hispanic author, written specifically to adolescents? Good! Intensive reading for pleasure is the best way to acquire vocabulary in any language. I’ve put an incredible amount of work into writing reading guides and vocabulary lists for all 20 chapters of Ciudad de las […]
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September 23, 2010
Books recommended as ‘easy’
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I found a helpful post on Amazon.com where someone recommends easy novels to read while learning Spanish. I hope to order them and see whether they might be good for Spanish 2, since I’m all about feeding kids authentic rather than learner Spanish from the beginning. One is La Tierra del Fuego, and the other […]
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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 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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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 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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