The students like the clips! ¡Feliz Navidad!

The students enjoyed the clips from Unitedstreaming. I believe because it was better than listening to me again. I used them for a grammar review-just as a reminder of items we had studied and they had supposedly learned. Then I assigned a short writing and performance project with a rubric from rubistar. ¡Feliz Navidad! ¡Prospero Año Nuevo!

One new thing, hmmm I don't think I'll......

...ever find my own. I am enjoying using the new things presented in class. Because they are all new to me. The rubistar rocks! Already used it for a project due Monday, and I was thinking about a rubric, so now I have one. I have 5 clips from Unitedstreaming ready to use in my Spanish class, that either introduce or review topics we have covered. I want to explore ¡Movie more and start on Comic Life so I can use them in my class. Marcia is a great resource for my next project on recipes and we already have plans for that with the Research Project Calculator. And so on......

Here's another, I have lots to say, different topic

I had problems with the streaming video. What a learning experience! The burned video would only play on a computer so I needed tech help to have it converted to DVD-which I should have done in the first time.. Then the 2 segments I wanted to use were backwards. Then the video tower to play to 14 classrooms changed. Then .....you get the idea. But finally I made it. The whole 5 minutes played successfully. It took me about 2 hours of running and talking to people and lots of sweat equity to do it.

Oops, I'm behind

I have learned how to make a movie with this MACbook. Enough knowledge to know, I don't know enough. I had to have help to burn it to a disc and make it into a movie. From a PC guy who worked on the MAC side with me. It looks like my kids can do it, so it's on my schedule!!!