I used Google Form to create a “getting to know you”
opportunity to collect contact information from students. I have taught a
grammar concept called the direct object pronoun during my extended practicum,
and the result was intriguing to me. It is not a difficult concept, and some
students sailed through it while others did not seem to grasp the concept
despite all the different modes of delivery and number of times we revisited
the concept. I anticipate using WallWisher to build the foundation for students
in understanding the different parts of speech that is involved in a sentence. First,
the students will brainstorm as a class for a motley list of verbs and nouns
they know of (except for proper nouns as they are too obvious to serve the
subsequent purpose of the activity) Next, they will be asked to sort through
stickies with nouns and verbs so they can look at a Spanish word and be able to
tell whether it is a verb or not. Then I will further train them to identify
the agent and the direct object with a sentence, through a podcast.
