tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442667320151643432.post4965930985506613248..comments2023-10-20T09:53:01.820-04:00Comments on Mis Musicuentos: Myth #6: Memorizing vocabularySaritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02571736145192888452noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442667320151643432.post-29877522597124020992011-09-08T09:38:15.653-04:002011-09-08T09:38:15.653-04:00Hi Laura, I got both your comments, thanks. :) I ...Hi Laura, I got both your comments, thanks. :) I used to use Blogger for our blog. They will let you set the blog to be viewable only by authorized readers or authors. When someone hits the blog, they see "You aren't authorized to view this blog. Please sign in." or something like that. They also let you set it so that it never comes up on the "next blog" function on blogspot's home page. And I gave each one a name that was a combination of our school name, the level of Spanish, and what period they met, so that the likelihood anyone would accidentally land on the front page would be infinitely small. That worked well - I used the permissions function to email each student an invite to be an author, they accepted it and were able to post whenever they wanted, and the post would tell me who wrote it and when.<br />This year we are using Edmodo. The students are liking it a lot because it's so much like facebook. It literally looks like a Facebook wall. The students get a secret code that allows them into our Spanish 3 or AP Spanish group. Also, a group of us have created a group called AmigoWeb for students to collaborate among schools. Let me know if you want to hang out with us there!Sra Cottrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13573869242047566709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442667320151643432.post-65157685088570146962011-09-05T22:16:40.459-04:002011-09-05T22:16:40.459-04:00Did my comment not post? Darn it.
I was reading y...Did my comment not post? Darn it.<br /><br />I was reading your post on "free blogging" and I had some questions about how you do it. How do you set up a blog so that just the students can see it and post without being seen by the rest of the internet? <br /><br />And thank you for this blog. I love reading your posts which give me new ideas and insight to my teaching methods. I'm about to start my second year of teaching and am hoping to incorporate more of your ideas so that my students are more proficient in Spanish.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05028875555025371861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442667320151643432.post-35346489693276985092011-09-02T12:03:21.779-04:002011-09-02T12:03:21.779-04:00I would say abandon it, because abandoning it isn&...I would say abandon it, because abandoning it isn't actually abandoning it. It's just putting it aside until it comes up again or we need it again, and when that happens enough times, the word is acquired. Yesterday or the day before we had the verb 'enterarse de' twice in back-to-back sources, one print and one audio. So we wrote it on the board in the different forms in which it was used and examined them a bit. I feel like something about that triggers in their heads, 'hey, this is pretty common, I might need this.'<br />Another example - I have one AP student who can already use darse cuenta de que (one of our top target phrases for the whole year) -- because it's in her Harry Potter Spanish translation she's reading. :)<br />@Traciepod thanks for the comment, I hope you can win your colleague over. Has she been to a conference or would she be willing to go?Sra Cottrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13573869242047566709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442667320151643432.post-78118972421923990212011-09-02T01:31:41.134-04:002011-09-02T01:31:41.134-04:00I have been trying to re-do my way of presenting/c...I have been trying to re-do my way of presenting/choosing/assessing vocab and totally agree. I only learned what was useful to me and if I don't use a word - I will forget it! My problem is that the teacher ahead of me is stuck to the lists and expects all the kids to know every word from their Sp 2 book in Sp 3 (and uses them on tests). I can't talk her out of it (trust me, I've tried). So I'm trying to meld the dreaded lists (which I edit) with their own lists. We'll see how it works... In AP I like giving credit when they re-use an old word (either by pointing it out and making a big deal or by adding a point here and there). Use it or lose it is our class motto :)Traciepodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16771949542594157850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7442667320151643432.post-77327310612747902082011-09-01T21:38:44.720-04:002011-09-01T21:38:44.720-04:00So, I give vocabulary for pre-reading to facilitat...So, I give vocabulary for pre-reading to facilitate comprehension. Now I just can't figure out what to do with it. Abandon it when story's over? Hope they work it into their own stories? Give CREDIT for working some into their own stories? Give credit for new vocabulary looked up & applied?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03381581852233671826noreply@blogger.com