If you’ve been around my blog for long, you know I love Flipgrid. I wrote a whole series about it last year! With social distancing in the classroom and remote learning, Flipgrid is a powerful tool, now more than ever. They’ve got some great new updates too. Here’s a quick overview. New Names & Organization…
My Spanish 1 students are very energetic this year which makes them the perfect students for physical activities like charades. They also sometime focus to stay on task which can make activities like charades chaotic and unproductive. Here is my work around. I gave each student a verb (bailar, cantar, hablar, etc). Next they went…
This is the second in a series of posts about using Flipgrid in the world language classroom. You can catch the first post here about captions, transcripts, and the immersive reader features. Let’s look at the features available to students as they record a video! Please note that you can turn these all on or…
Learn how to optimize Flipgrid’s features for the world language classroom. This post focuses on target language captions, downloading video transcripts, and leveraging the immersive reader features to support world language learners.
This isn’t a post about another shiny object to chase in this remote teaching journey. In fact, it’s the opposite. It’s a work horse of a platform. No fancy avatars, music, cute graphics, or videos of happy students playing at the log in screen. It’s clean cut, practical, and down to business. If you’re anything…
Teachers are amazing and have shared so much as we shift to a new way of teaching. The tough part is that the information is scattered all over the web & I have trouble keeping track of it all. I’ve asked some amazing educators to share their advice in this post. Scroll down for wisdom…
“Where did I put that?” “Did 4th block had those in?” “Have these grades been entered yet?” “Did I run those copies or not?” If you can relate to any of these questions, you’ve been like me. Over the years I’ve developed systems that work for me to keep my papers organized as a teacher….
Today I used a pecha kucha style speaking activity with Adios Textbook’s street food unit. The traditional pecha kucha is made up of 20 slides that the speaker talks about for 20 seconds. For my Spanish pecha kucha, I cut the pictures down to 6 slides and asked students to talk for just 10 seconds….
So much more than a worksheet, learn how to extend these Hispanic culture sheets into something bigger and richer for students!
I recently wrapped up @karacjacobs “Soy yo” unit. (Side note: It’s amazing!) And at the last minute threw in this quick activity. I wanted to get students writing more but my Spanish 1 kiddos aren’t ready to create something this complex from scratch as fast as I wanted them to so I created this framework…