Just celebrated the finale of two educational technology courses at UVIC with many members of our cohort on the North Island. It has been a blast and I’ve learned a lot. One of the most amazing projects I witnessed was an ibook about the local culture and language made by Reed Allen and Diane Harris– way to go you two! …
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Classroom 2.0 Mooc
Classroom 2.0 Mooc has proven to be very informative and useful to my teaching. Roger Shank spoke one Saturday morning about why large Stanford style Moocs may not work. He stated, “larger is not better.” The best learning, according to him, happens when there is a small group with a mentor learning about a subject they are interested in. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...What a great way to perform the learning outcomes for Grade 11 French: find a true French recipe from the Francophone world via Twitter and make it for the class. Preparing French food together helped build community, reviewed our French food vocabulary, and created authentic research opportunities. …
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Questionnaire
Today in the French 11/12 class, I handed out a questionnaire to get my students’ thoughts about tweeting and blogging. They could respond in either French or English. The questionnaire included the following questions:
1. What is one aspect about Twitter that you are enjoying?…
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To begin, I realize that tweeting and blogging can be complementary practices in the language classroom. Either can be used to gain viewers to the others’ platform. It was through Twitter that I was able to get readers and comments on my class blog and it was with blogging that I was able to discuss resources that I found on Twitter. …
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Tweeting
We love Twitter. In a survey of my class this week, 18 out of a class of 20 said they preferred tweeting to blogging. Perhaps it’s because last week, we had tons of fun as we added daily tweets to a story that we started about an alien. …
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After reaching the half way point on the calender for ETMOOC, I thought I would try some different Moocs.
However, before I discuss the new Moocs I have signed up for, I wanted to talk a bit about the ETMOOC experience. …
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As I spent the weekend reflecting on the use of Twitter and Kidblog in my French classroom, I realized Twitter has surpassed my expectations for usefulness. In the beginning, I had rallied my class around the idea of using Twitter to practice, each day, a French phrase, using some verb tense or other language structure from our daily class work. …
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Last week, I had posted my frustrations with blogging, as no one was commenting on my students’ work. Well, Donna sent me a reply and recommended that maybe I connect with a French blog from a school in Victoria, so I did just that. …
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