The thing that I have most enjoyed about this class so far is that it’s given me an excuse to check out language learning websites that I wouldn’t have gone through otherwise. I plan to recommend the one that I reviewed to my classes, and possibly even assign some tasks from the site. I also found a few other interesting sites, which I bookmarked, and I plan to spend more time reviewing them and providing them as additional resources to my students.
I have been able to complete the tasks that we’ve been assigned so far, except that I had problems inputting classmates’ blog URLs into my bloglines account. I was planning to finish that this weekend and was also going to look through everyone’s website reviews and comment on some of them, but I will have to wait until Moodle reopens to access the directory of blog URLs.
Two items that are new to me are Skype and Bloglines. I believe they will be useful for keeping up more with what’s happening in the foreign language education field. I don’t have a lot of opportunities to network with other Spanish teachers at this time. I think that both of these sites will provide ways to have a lot of content come directly to me without my having to think about looking for information all the time. I also appreciated learning about the details involved in the epal project. I had not thought of some of the preliminary steps and can see that they would greatly enrich the students’ experiences.
I would like to learn more about the available functions in Skype and plan to spend more time looking through the website. I also would like to learn about website design, which is totally new to me. I will go through the suggested tutorials this week and will try to complete the steps throughout the week. I’m also looking forward to reading about more ways that others are incorporating technology into their foreign language classrooms.
# posted by Janine @ 10:05 PM
