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January 26, 2016
I love networking with great people. Not only is it how I figure out answers to what I’m doing wrong, it’s also where I get the best tips on new tech tools that will simplify my life without further stressing me out. This tool is a great example. I was talking to Thomas Sauer at […]
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January 22, 2016
I may seem pretty techy to some, but let me tell you, technology overwhelms me quickly. It changes every half second, right? And with all the blogs I follow, some days it seems like I get several blog posts delivered at almost the same time referring to approximately 72 different technology options I must use […]
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May 23, 2014
I just taught my last class for the foreseeable future and what a sweet handful of minutes it was. I decided to revisit the Photopeach final this year, after having not done it for 2 years because of babies arriving at the end of the school year. I’ve blogged about Photopeach and this particular project […]
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January 21, 2014
A few months ago I was at a Starbucks and picked up one of those cards to get a free app download. The app seemed to be some sort of child’s drawing tool, and since my daughter already loves DoodleBuddy, I thought, hey, it’s free, why not. Sure enough, my 4-year-old (excuse me, she’s “four […]
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January 14, 2014
Website review: Geoguessr
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Since my fourth suggestion for a 2014 resolution was to take a step outside the textbook, here’s an easy idea that gives you a way to do that. I recently heard about the web app Geoguessr and I’ll warn you, it’s addictive. Basically, the app gives you Google Earth photos of seemingly random places in […]
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June 16, 2013
The Tech & Learning Adviser Blog did a blog post a long time ago called Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Magazines & Newspapers. It’s the only post of its kind I’ve seen and I’ve tweeted it out several times at people looking for tools to make online magazines with their world language class. We’ve tried […]
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June 8, 2013
Screencast: Photopeach
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My favorite way to wrap up AP Spanish, after the exam, is to do a project we call “21 important things.” Students do a slideshow on Photopeach using, at least: 21 photos with text, illustrating things important to the student No simple sentences At least half the photos from creative commons, properly sourced Music in […]
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March 13, 2013
Authentic resource: trivia games
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¿Es verdad que Einstein ayudó a inventar la bomba atómica? ¿Cuánto sabes de true crime? ¿O el cerebro? Play these trivia games and more – or just explore other authentic content – on the Mexican branch of the Biography channel, Canal Bio, in their games section. Authentic resources like this are rich with contextualized meaningful […]
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February 8, 2013
Tech tools gone wrong
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When I first became active on Twitter, I followed the general #edchat quite a bit and was stunned and fascinated by all the tech tools people were tweeting about. I read blog posts and reviews about the latest web 2.0 tool someone was using in X class and got excited. I tried many new tools […]
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January 6, 2012
Free Ebook for WL educators
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Our generous friends over at Calico Spanish have put together a free resource for you! Sign up today to receive Web Tools for 21st Century World Language Classrooms. This free e-book is an organized, user-friendly collaboration based on past Twitter #Langchats related to using web tools to enhance and develop all sorts of language acquisition […]
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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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January 18, 2010
I just tagged on my Delicious all the Spanish-language corporate websites that I’ve mentioned on my blog. It makes it a lot more convenient to find the sites that my students have found interesting. You can find it here: http://delicious.com/wandermami/Corporate_Spanish_sites
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