Projects
HISTORY OF THE NIÑOS DE MORELIA WITH PEAR DECK
Sep. 24, 2020—This project uses the interactive slide deck program Pear Deck to teach students about the children of Morelia. The lesson includes interactive maps, embedded YouTube videos, and chronology exercises to teach cultural content, geography, art, and history and check comprehension. It engages the ACTFL world readiness standards of culture, comparison, connections, and communication. Project Overview:...
TEACHING DIVERSITY USING ARCGIS STORYMAPS
Sep. 24, 2020—This project seeks to use the ArcGIS StoryMaps platform to introduce students to the great cultural and linguistic diversity that exists within the French-speaking world, moving beyond the borders of France. French textbooks and classroom instruction are so often complicit in reinforcing the cultural and linguistic hegemony of France, while sidelining other francophone countries as...
READING COMPREHENSION USING INSERTLEARNING
Sep. 24, 2020—The project uses InsertLearning, a Google Chrome Extension that allows teachers to insert instructional content on a webpage like questions, prompts, additional comments, and access learning and comprehension. In this video, I show how I develop a conscious plan that helps students become purposeful and active readers in their engagement with authentic material. It is...
GOOGLE FORMS FOR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: MOVIE QUIZ
Aug. 10, 2019—This Google Forms activity creates a quiz to be used as a formative assessment. To practice the interpretive mode of communication and engagement with authentic materials, students watch an embedded video about movie genres and then answer questions based on the movie. Lesson Overview: Spanish Novice (Low, Mid, High) One class session Website No costs...
EDPUZZLE VIDEO QUIZ
Aug. 9, 2019—This lesson uses the website Edpuzzle and a Youtube video as part of a unit on food vocabulary and commands. The activity engages the interpretive mode of communication as it asks students to engage with the authentic resource Tasty recipes. The activity gages comprehension with comprehension questions embedded in the video. Lesson Overview: Spanish...
FLIPGRID COOKING VIDEO
Aug. 9, 2019—This lesson asks students to use Flipgrid, Youtube videos, and Google docs to produce their own cooking video. Appropriate for introduction-level students, this lesson provides a model of an authentic cooking video and then asks students practice their presentational speaking. Project Overview: Spanish Novice (Low, Mid, High) One class session Website No costs involved...
FLIPGRID MOVIE SCHEDULE
Aug. 9, 2019—This lesson asks students to use Flipgrid to practice presentational speaking skills while engaging with authentic materials. This activity focuses on movie vocabulary and expressing preference with gustar. For this activity, students use the website for the Mexican movie chain Cinépolis and the attached lesson plan. Lesson Overview: Spanish Novice (Low, Mid, High) One...
READING SPANISH LITERATURE WITH VOYANT TOOLS
Apr. 7, 2018—This pre-reading activity uses the platform Voyant Tools to orient students to the vocabulary, tone, and style of literary text. Students generate data with the online program and then make informed inferences based on the most frequent words and the places in which the words appear in the text. With the attached worksheet, students define...