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.
I think that's a great way to introduce Wikipedia as a usable source Rosio! Stressing the need for something to be reviewed and "checked" before using it only makes the papers stronger. I agree with the internet being a frightening, especially for elementary school. They do have to obtain tools to navigate the web themselves but building that skill using guided links, like WebQuests, would probably help a lot!
ReplyDeleteSabrina, You are right WebQuest are useful to control where students navigate. For some reason I often forget about that practice. I have created some for assignments, and it usually takes me longer than expected to put it together. However I have read blogs about WebQuest and majority mention that the more practice the better you get at creating WebQuest. Another pro was that they are reusable and easily updated.
DeleteI agree that students must be guided in their use of Wikipedia. I firmly believe that teaching students to be careful of what they find on the internet is a skill that they need to practice across all spectrums, not just in the class room. I also agree with Sabrina regarding using Webquests as a guiding factor.
ReplyDeleteYou are right internet skills need to be practice properly. The world wide web comes with adequate that not everyone knows about and students need a safe place to learn about.
DeleteI know I mentioned this in a few threads already, but consider the following: none of us would disagree that we tell our students that we should consider multiple sources when conducting research. I'm wondering how, given the discussion over the past two weeks, do we place Wikipedia ON PAR with other resources, or below/above? That is, we all have pretty much agreed on its usefulness as a first place to go, but what about after that?
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