I’ve been slowly re-vamping my units to include more interpretive reading and I’ve been using Google Forms for the reading. This is a Choose Your Own reading activity that asks students to choose an animal to adopt as part of a bigger Adopt an Animal mini-unit. Here’s the great cool part: it has different choices …
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I’m always surprised how little teachers use Google Sheets (or Excel) because it has so many features that help make all the little tasks we need to do as teachers less time consuming. One of these is Data Validation. Data What? Data validation is a neat little feature that adds a drop down menu to …
At the end of last semester I was wrestling with how to work on pronunciation. Alas, I was tired of hearing “Il essssssssssssst anglaissssss” and so I started to brainstorm ways students might be able to work on this problem without me. This particular pronunciation issue is, in my opinion, an input and reading issue. …
A colleague asked me to help her come up with a way for students to do peer reviews of projects using Google Forms. The results had to be viewable only by the teacher and the student and all students had to have access to the links to submit the peer reviews for every student in …
This last summer I spent some time with my six year old cousin. He has some speech issues and sees a speech therapist weekly and is not, in general, a great talker…yet. However he loves playing the Guess Who game. Do you know this game? You have cards with images on them that you slide …
Who doesn’t love a good game of Bingo? I created an interactive slide deck for Bingo with the classroom objects. NB: In the textbook a bicycle and car are listed in the classroom objects section. Who am I to judge? There’s also an mp3 player and a CD player. I just make fun of those. …
I updated what I give my students so they can learn how to do the accents because the amount of time in college class I am willing to devote to this is 0. (Note: For younger learners, I believe it’s important to devote as much time as you need to teach students how to do …
Work smarter not harder Quizlet has a feature that they call “diagram.” It’s pretty darn cool. You upload a photo and then place dots on it and student identify the dots. The implications for language learners to practice identifying vocabulary are clear. Here I am using it not so much as a “diagram,” but as …
Tech Support – How may I help? If there’s one thing I dislike it’s taking up precious class time to do tech support and answer technology questions. It my seem ironic, but for an Instructional Technology Coach and teacher in a paperless classroom, I’m pretty picky about what type of tech I use in class. …
