Although this year is winding down, I'm getting all wound up over technology. I'm excited about incorporating more technology in my new job this fall, and doing so mindfully. There is so much work to be done, and the more I try to clarify what I know, the more expansive my search gets. Class Dojo leads me to Twitter. Edmodo leads me to Schoology to Haiku Deck. Each gem I uncover is attached to an entirely differnent universe-sized mind-map of new information. I'm getting buried.
Evernote for organizing, note-taking, sharing, digital-portfolio building...
Schoology and Edmodo for classroom learning systems, online discussion, online quizzes and assignment submission...
Class Dojo and Student Action tracker for behavioral data... motivation
Twitter... I'm still stuck on Twitter. I have no idea how to use it or why I would, why I should, and the harder I try to make myself care about Twitter, the less interested I am in figuring it out. Ugh.
Answer Underground for networking regarding real-time help requests and digital collaboration...
Flipped Classrooms
So many ideas to dive into this summer.
11 June 2013
19 March 2013
Lessons from Édith Piaf
To French IV students:
What was the personal message you got from watching the film "La Môme"?
What was the personal message you got from watching the film "La Môme"?
- The message for me was not to regret small things, and to love all people because you don't know how they got where they are.
- The message for me is that the mistakes in my life don't have power unless I give it to them.
- A lesson in the film is "you have a life" because it is her message the entire time she was sick.
- The message for me is that you can destroy a life with too much love, you must have a life with more than one important thing in it.
22 February 2013
20 February 2013
Self-imposed road blocks
Overcoming the obstacles I've created for myself in my classes is wearing on me. I want everything prefect. My goals of teaching French in context are extremely difficult. They require so much more planning, and in the end, I much prefer my courses in this style than simply when following the book. However, I find my struggle to break away from the book is increasingly difficult when it comes to scaffolding students. They need the book. They love the structure of it. After 2 years of following page by page to get them to their third year, they are reluctant to leave it.
We start each day with 90 minutes of class. Although I haven't used the book for all videos and quizzes, I've relied a lot on the worksheets and book exercises to help learn the language and grammar concepts.
The students are working on the ideal Monarch project. I need to blog about this later, how it's going and how I'd like to change it.
Things I'd like to create:
Things on the agenda this year:
We start each day with 90 minutes of class. Although I haven't used the book for all videos and quizzes, I've relied a lot on the worksheets and book exercises to help learn the language and grammar concepts.
The students are working on the ideal Monarch project. I need to blog about this later, how it's going and how I'd like to change it.
Things I'd like to create:
- Est-ce que je peux posters for all conjugations.
- Est-ce que je peux poster for various locations
Things on the agenda this year:
- Teach 6th graders French
- French Wedding reception for the Personal Finance Class
- Read Les Misérables in English
11 January 2013
Scatterbrained
There are so many things that I want to incorporate in my upcoming classes that I can't keep it straight. So I've decided to compile a list here to keep my ideas in one place. Even though I have a hundred apps for this exact thing, such as Evernote and Mindmapping software, nothing beats making a dang list.
French III Honors
French III Honors
- Context: Louis XIV, French Revolution, Napoleon.
- Text: Les Misérables annotated edition from Barnes and Noble
- Literature Circles on Fridays
- Text: Chapters 1-5 for grammar points and vocabulary building, but NOT for context.
- Using Technology to support instruction and encourage self-directed learning
- Edmodo? (create online quizzes about verb conjugation that are automatically graded)
- Evernote?
- Googlesite for the entire class
- Epals?
- Kidblogs for online portfolio
- iPad apps for instructional uses
- iPhone/Android apps for student support
- Common Core: Multiple Sources
- Les Mémoires de la Marquise de la Tour du Pin
- Daily News reports
- Radio France portions
- RFI for audio with transcripts
- Context: Studying French through film analysis
- Text: Discovering French Blanc (Nouveau!) for grammar and vocabulary resources
- Using Technology to support instruction and encourage self-directed learning
- Edmodo? (create online quizzes about verb conjugation that are automatically graded)
- Evernote?
- Googlesite for the entire class
- Epals?
- Kidblogs for online portfolio
- iPad apps for instructional uses
- iPhone/Android apps for student support
- Common Core: Multiple Sources
- Daily News reports
- Radio France portions
- RFI for audio with transcripts
- Film reviews and texts relating to film
- Context: Qui suis-je, et pourquoi?
- Text: Discovering French Bleu(Nouveau!) as curriculum basis, chapters 3-6
- Using Technology to support instruction and encourage self-directed learning
- Edmodo? (create online quizzes about verb conjugation that are automatically graded)
- Evernote?
- Googlesite for the entire class
- Epals?
- Kidblogs for online portfolio
- iPad apps for instructional uses
- iPhone/Android apps for student support
- Common Core: Multiple Sources
- Daily News reports
- Radio France portions
- RFI for audio with transcripts
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