PART 1
Feedly Additions
As resourceful as Febly is I have not used it as much as I should. This year our Elementary Spanish team has adopted a new curriculum and we are testing it out. To give it a sisered try I been going by it and not adding new information to it. Nonetheless, my colleagues goal an mine is to start adding more cultures related material, which is why I am building my resource network with authentic . I am not a fan of giving my students grammar practice units, then only one unit on culture. My goal is that culture aspect can be better integrated and not a side note.
Spanish4Teachers.org provides resources for teachers to use. It contains lesson plans, worksheets, PowerPoints, culture content, vocab, and technology resources.
FunforSpanish.blogspot.com has authentic arts and craft activities. Season activities get posted and it makes it an easy hunt on finding hands-on craft. In all sincerity I really like this website. Someone once showed it to me at a teacher conference but I did not save it, now it's in my RSS list 😊
Creativelanguageclass.com/blog has 21st century authentic resources for both teacher and students.
Twitter Additions
It is interesting because although my Twitter has always been strictly been for professional use, I have nevered followed an unknown Spanish teacher. the teachers I follow are teachers I know. I am sure that following unknown Snappish teachers can be useful because their view and resources are different than my colleagues' whom I already know of.
@MrsCabelloSC is a K-6 Spanish teacher who shares what her students are during in the classroom. My students fall right in that range and I can copy lesson ideas from her.
@snraluptak is a middle school/high school Spanish teacher who post occasionally. Although I do not teach middle nor high school I want to follow her because it is difficult to find teacher for upper elementary(3rd- 5th).
@mhornillos is a language learner and a translator who post useful resources for people learning a new language or for world language teachers.
@snraluptak is a middle school/high school Spanish teacher who post occasionally. Although I do not teach middle nor high school I want to follow her because it is difficult to find teacher for upper elementary(3rd- 5th).
My Feebly and My Twitter
My Feebly account I have not used much. My Twitter account, I skim through it more often than not. To be honest is more of habits to me. Feebly is new to me Twitter is more common to me and on my "brain breaks" I tend to open it and scroll down to see what is interesting. I need to start during hat with Feeble as opposed to looking down my social media news feed. Yes! I am past of generation X, in my lat , I have Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Often after going through my social media I shake my head and think of all the other productive things I could have been during. Time to build new habits and update my mobile apps usage. I say this with all sincerity because everytime I look at my professional networks I see something that is worth spending my time on.
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PART 2
When students are asked to do their own research, I have learned to limit them to certain resources to help them do empirical research. Some of the resources I have my students use are World Books online and Britannica for s kids. My reason for limiting my students is because I want them to learn how to use professional resources. My students are only elementary students opening the world wide web freely, frightens me. I have to admitted that I am one of those people that thought that Wikipedia was a more open site where literately anyone could publish information. Nonetheless as an undergrad I would always go to Wikipedia to start my research, then I would find look in the database for information that matched Wikipedia. A good percentage of that time I will find corresponding information.
After reading Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica I felt some type of satisfaction that information does get review after being published. It then made me think that an additional source I can give my students is specific Wikipedia pages. Perhaps put them in a PDF format for them to have access to, and explain to them that Wikipedia can be used, as long as the sources are checked.
YouTube is another free resource that I limit the sources. I like to use you in my classroom to introduce and practice vocabulary. I truly believe that students need to listen to Spanish from someone other than me, When students visit YouTube channels in my classroom there are YouTube channels that I have visited before. To be honest my students do not do a whole whole of YouTubing.
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Sunday, February 5, 2017
R.A.T in my classroom
Currently I am teaching Spanish for students in grades 3rd-5th. I have exposed 5th graders to tech-tools and I am looking for better ways to expose them to Web 2.0 tools. Students getting feedback from more people than just me is a benefit I see on using Web 2.0 . Since I am a traveling teacher that goes to six different schools I been limiting myself on exposing the higher grade levels to technology. I only did technology lessons with my 5th graders for two years. Than I introduced my 4th graders, show are now my 5th graders and have a better understanding of our tech tools now. I also limit myself to one tech lesson per year, because other ways I feel I back away from teaching them Spanish.
Replacement
As a teacher I hate using my time to grade papers. Yes, sometimes I get good laughs, but it usually take more time than expected. When I have students complete simple quiz, okay, I can live with grading. When it is larger assessments Google Forms with Flubaroo are my GO-TO tools. It is convenient using this combination of tech tools to grade assessments because Google Forms puts answers in a spread sheet, then Flubaroo does the grading for me. . In the near future I would like to get organized with using Plickers for quick formative assessments.
Amplification
This past three years I have had students present information on various platforms. There was Animoto with a combination of DropBox . Students were placed in groups and they needed to create a presentation on a Spanish speaking country. Introducing two new tools at the same time to students was an interesting hassle that I will never repeat. The following year I used Thinglink. Students assignment for Thinlink was to create an outfits for their favorite season and label them in Spanish. Thinglink was my first approach towards Web 2.0 because students were able to see their classmates work immediately, since they were all placed in the same class. Once they were finished they were able to comment on each others work. Since I asked them to comment in Spanish their comments were limited. Then my school district became a Google district. All students in 5th grade and up got a Google Account, hence Google Slides became my main source for presentations. My 5th graders created presentations on weather reports and once again, they were asked to comment in Spanish. Last year I created classroom accounts for 4th grade classes. All students shared the same account and they enjoyed their small intro to Google Drive. Now that they are my 5th graders I plan on adding a new presentation tool. I have seen a few of my formal 5thgraders and they thank me for introducing them to Google Drive because they use it a lot in Middle School.
Transformation
As a Spanish teacher I would like to pair students with virtual pen pals/keypals with students from a Spanish speaking country. I think this will help them with their Spanish skills and also increase their interest to learn a second language. They will get an authentic experience on using Spanish. Pairing up students with key pals will expand their Spanish skills more than pairing them up with pen pals because they could create an ongoing conversation on their interests and different lifestyles. This, however, opens the doors to more stranger danger, and that is a whole different battle.
Replacement
As a teacher I hate using my time to grade papers. Yes, sometimes I get good laughs, but it usually take more time than expected. When I have students complete simple quiz, okay, I can live with grading. When it is larger assessments Google Forms with Flubaroo are my GO-TO tools. It is convenient using this combination of tech tools to grade assessments because Google Forms puts answers in a spread sheet, then Flubaroo does the grading for me. . In the near future I would like to get organized with using Plickers for quick formative assessments.
Amplification
This past three years I have had students present information on various platforms. There was Animoto with a combination of DropBox . Students were placed in groups and they needed to create a presentation on a Spanish speaking country. Introducing two new tools at the same time to students was an interesting hassle that I will never repeat. The following year I used Thinglink. Students assignment for Thinlink was to create an outfits for their favorite season and label them in Spanish. Thinglink was my first approach towards Web 2.0 because students were able to see their classmates work immediately, since they were all placed in the same class. Once they were finished they were able to comment on each others work. Since I asked them to comment in Spanish their comments were limited. Then my school district became a Google district. All students in 5th grade and up got a Google Account, hence Google Slides became my main source for presentations. My 5th graders created presentations on weather reports and once again, they were asked to comment in Spanish. Last year I created classroom accounts for 4th grade classes. All students shared the same account and they enjoyed their small intro to Google Drive. Now that they are my 5th graders I plan on adding a new presentation tool. I have seen a few of my formal 5thgraders and they thank me for introducing them to Google Drive because they use it a lot in Middle School.
Transformation
As a Spanish teacher I would like to pair students with virtual pen pals/keypals with students from a Spanish speaking country. I think this will help them with their Spanish skills and also increase their interest to learn a second language. They will get an authentic experience on using Spanish. Pairing up students with key pals will expand their Spanish skills more than pairing them up with pen pals because they could create an ongoing conversation on their interests and different lifestyles. This, however, opens the doors to more stranger danger, and that is a whole different battle.
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