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Quick tech to start your year: Screencastify
I may seem pretty techy to some, but let me tell you, technology overwhelms me quickly. It changes every half second, right? And with all the blogs I follow, some days it seems like I get several blog...
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Quick Tech to start your year: Video DownloadHelper
I love networking with great people. Not only is it how I figure out answers to what I’m doing wrong, it’s also where I get the best tips on new tech tools that will simplify my life without further...
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Quick tech to start your year: One-Click Timer
What’s the technology that gets used the most in my classroom? Broadly, I suppose it’s YouTube. Outside the classroom, Edmodo and Google Docs for sure. But as far as a little tool, certainly the one...
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World language teaching after the Babel fish
Do you remember Kodak and Blockbuster? I do. My students do not. Listen to the man in the NYT video about the death throes at Kodak: What if? What if somebody else would have been a little more...
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The largest Spanish class PBLL collaboration ever?
Sometimes, a mildly interesting idea takes root and then morphs into something you never expected. That has happened to me this year, and I cannot contain how excited I am about it. A toe in the PBLL...
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Native speaker video resource: ¡GRACIAS Project Amigo!
Metas, pasatiempos, y deportes, oh my! Rabbit trails aren’t always a bad thing. Sometimes they turn out to be the yellow brick road with the Emerald City at the end. Here’s the one I hit today: I...
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Book Club ’16: Who Owns the Learning
The title of Who Owns the Learning came up as a possibility for this past summer’s #langchat, and the title immediately caught my eye. It’s been a huge dilemma in my quest to figure out why students...
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This year, consider… 3) paying for apps & services
A while ago, I stumbled upon a site called Sugarcane. It was a game platform, and it was amazing. The platform was owned by IXL Learning, a company making headway in online learning. It was...
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