Antolog�a Po�tica Multimedia: Me matan si no trabajo

Antolog�a Po�tica Multimedia: Me matan si no trabajo

Thing 6A-Diigo

Once again, I am impressed with technology. Diijo is a great tool! My husband had to change my operating system and when when this happenned I forgot to tell him to save my favorites. What a big pain it was to get all those favorites back there! This is a great way to keep them safe and accessible! Here are some of my favorites. Hope you like them! http://www.diigo.com/profile/skennally

Thing5 A- About Reader

Yes, the amount of blogs and pods are a bit too much for me right now! I am in the process of completing my masters' degree so my time is quite limitted. Nevertheless, it is a very convenient way to get the news, blogs, pods directly to you! I will definately explore reader in the near future!

One that I would like to recommend is the NPR Education podcast. The link to this one is http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=17350298

Another one is a blog called Tech&Learning. The link to this one is http://www.techlearning.com/blogs/20444

Thing 3 "Real Simple Subscriptions" Reader

Well...I was truly amazed about how truly simple it is to subscribe! I had a subscription to NPR and it comes to my mail at work. I will redirect the news to my google reader. I definitely think that this is a better way of subscribing to any type of media or blog. The only problem is the accumulation of information. However as the instructions suggested here is where we can practice our scanning skills!

I enjoyed the langwitches site. The story telling through digital images is something I can fit in my content area (Spanish). I liked the focus on online collaboration and the teddy bear around the world is a neat idea. I have heard of similar projects before. This is something I would like to incorporate in my classroom.

Finally something small but FUN and useful too...
Mrs. Tolisano had a link to an online stop watch that I thought was pretty cool and useful in the classroom! Check it out!

Thing 1B- Web 2.0 and its role in 21st century teaching and learning.

I am eager to learn "The 23 Things" that will be discussed in this class. I know that they will contribute to the excitement and motivation that I want to instill in my students as they learn Spanish. Learning a foreign language is all about communication, this means that they need to collaborate. I want this collaboration to go beyond the walls of my classroom. What better tool than the Web to do this? In Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times, Leu Leu and Coiro (2004) state,"The Internet allows students and teachers to explore new models of collaborative learning that transcend national and cultural borders" (p.13). If you would like to check out the website for this book you can click on http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/fourth.html . It has great ideas on how to integrate technology in all content areas.

It was clear by the instructional videos that the Internet has changed how we communicate and react to what is happening around us. Keepin up with this technology will help my content area come alive. I do not want my student's learning learning to be stagnant.

I recently had my Spanish for Native Speakers class participate in a contest. They had to write a love poem for Valentine's day (the pre-requisite was a 20 words or less poem). The contest was hosted by Mundo Hispanico, a local newspaper for the Hispanic community. I can not tell you how excited they were to write and send their poems through the newspapers' site! We hope to see the poems published next week. I will let you know if one of them wins "the special prize!"

Students of the 21st century must be able to be literate on the use of the Internet. Being able to identify, navigate, evaluate, synthesize and communicate information found on the Internet will be a tremendous advantage as they prepare to become members of the work force. It will also be helpful in their personal and social lives.

Happy learning everyone!

Mrs. K

About Me

Hola! I work at WBHS and I am currently teaching Spanish II and Spanish for Native Speakers. This is my eighth year at WBHS. I am in the process of completing my master's degree and I recently took a class called Technology and Literacies in the Content Areas. I learned about a wide range of instructional models such as Internet Workshop, Internet Project, Internet Iquiry and WebQuest. I would like to incorporate these models through a Wiki site and I know that this class will guide us on creating a Wiki. I actually started my own Wiki site already! It still needs a lot of work though! This is the link http://kennallyspanish.barrow.wikispaces.net/

Great to be with you guys!
Mrs. K