Final Project

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.

listen to ‘Spanish Podcast: Direct Object Pronoun’ on Audioboo

Day 10 Homework

Example shows I made:

A gloster on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet I made.

A tagxedo word cloud with words scoured from @mstespana and I picked the shape of a whale. Other ways this app may be used could be scouring words from a theme (e.g. shopping) in a shape relevant to the theme. This can either be done by the teacher as a hook to the unit; or it can be the students who work in groups and get assigned a theme.

And finally, my first prezi. The theme is Art and the grammar point is how to say what you like.

Qué tipo de arte te gusta más? on Prezi

Day 9 Homework (Google Docs, Slides, & Forms)

The Slides in my example could be used in the form of self revision for students at home, embedded on my blog which they have access to throughout the year.



This Doc could be used as a real time note-taking form. If students would like to edit this form, they need to click here.

I have used the Form for getting to know the students. It may also be used at the end of a unit / the school year as a feedback form, but I think the more frequent this is used as a feedback bait the better we can become informed with our progress.

Day 8 Homework Curating using ScoopIt

Day 6 Homework bookr

I found this photo album on bookr from a trip to Spain with Spanish annotations. I like the photos as they are very close to ordinary life in Spain. It could be a good idea to use as a realia in the Spanish classroom.




The following is an album I created !




All albums on the bookr site will churn out an embed code when you click on "Blog this" under the album. To make corrections, click on "Recycle this" on the same page.

Day 5 Homework Using embedding from archive.org and teaching with Spanish Classic

I have embedded this simplified Spanish Classic La Regenta from archive.org. This book is a abridged version of the original. And I could use this in class with some sort of graphic maker to analyse a particular passage, and for us to introduce a new grammar point or new vocabulary.

Day 4 Homework: Embedding music on a blog

Music Playlist at MixPod.com

I have provided a music-only version of Shakira's song Suerte. The idea is to get them to write their own lyrics to the song in groups based around a theme that they have chosen. This is going to act as a unit revision of the all the themes that have been covered, where they can apply all the grammatical knowledge they have learned, and use specific sets of vocabulary according to the theme they have chosen. For example, if they have chosen the theme of Sports, they will be writing the lyrics around Sports, using all the grammatical knowledge across the unit to accomplish the task.

Day 3 Homework Screencast

I found this art / history on Khan Academy, one of the prolific suppliers of educational videos we learnt in class, which poses an example of how to use Screencast as an educational tool and potentially integrating this tool into one's blog for extracurricular purposes.


1) Sign up for one of the services we looked at today.

2) Create a Screencast sample. (i.e. something that you might be able to use with a class.) Embed the result in a post on your blog and comment on how you could see this working for your class.

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Additional Resources: (If you are so inclined)

Using Educational Video in the Classroom: Theory, Research and Practice

By Emily Cruse, M.Ed., Curriculum Director, Library Video Company

http://www.safarimontage.com/pdfs/training/UsingEducationalVideoInTheClassroom.pdf

Is that a Fish in Your Ear? - Bellos

http://vimeo.com/27969381

EdTech of the future - Infographic

http://theconstructionzone.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/edtechfuture-infographic.jpg

Day 2 Homework AudioBoo

listen to ‘First audio clip’ on Audioboo

Hola, como estas?

listen to ‘Hola ’ on Audioboo