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!!!

Oops it's 12

Urban Planet is still moving along, slowly tho. I am also working on Streaming Video for use with my Academy about bridges. Marcia Preller is helping with that since my laptop is being uncooperative at the moment and I need to show it to 14 different rooms at once. So I will need to burn it to a disc, which we discussed last Wed. also. I will not need the whole video, just a bit as a teaser. We will be building bridges from newspaper and tape and testing them to see what weight they will hold. The video will be a great intro, I hope. That is thing number 9.

11 is the number

I learned many new things last week, researching Informe. One that it was kind of difficult, so I was glad to have the opportunity to do so. But I can see how it could be useful. I will need to do more work on it. I also learned how some of the databases others used will be useful for my students and myself. Good session!

Urban Planet Post-10th

Yesterday I attended a session on Urban Planet and started to create my very own web page! It seems user friendly. And with Leslie's help and also the Ballroom Queen I was able to do some things. I hope I remember how to do more or that the help site is very helpful. Leslie has another idea for me instead of a Blog for my classes-I forget what it is called, starts with an M. More steps. It appears they are getting bigger.