One of my favorite working software programs, Pixie is not only versatile but quite creative. I vouch that all my students, younger and older, love to use it. For this project, I saved a template where the students will describe in detail what their restaurant will be like. As they opened the template they were... Continue Reading →
St. Valentine’s Day- Día de San Valentín- ESL/Spanish projects
LingTECHguistics goes heart-sy! I think that, at times, I have an unhealthy fascination with Valentine's Day. It all begins in mid-January. After that, everything from that day on turns red, pink, and heart-shaped. This lesson was made using www.cryptogram.com, a website where you create your own candy hearts. At first, I did the slide myself to conduct a lesson... Continue Reading →
Using Pixie 2 for L2 lessons
Feliz Navidad con Pixie 2 Pixie 2 is a program license from Tech4learning designed to involve skills which include a) typing b) fine motor drawing and coloring using the mouse c) research and critical thinking through the search for clip art and stationary d) the production of relevant and meaningful activities. However, it can... Continue Reading →
L2 and differentiation: centers galore!
The hot topic of differentiated instrruction entails that all teachers, L1 and L2 alike are expected to do the following:set up individual goals by student, and by level of abilityconference one on one with studentsstudents must be grouped by ability, ensuring a combination of low, mid, highKUD, RAFT options should be available (Sternberg)1. After setting... Continue Reading →
Spanish 2.0/EFL/ESL- Lesson with autoshapes
My favorite thing to teach is colors. Colors are everywhere and in everything. Yet, of all the color lessons that I have taught in English, Spanish, German (ages ago), and French, one of my favorite central topics is the gumball machine. Lesson Plan Objective: To teach target lingo (colors and shapes) and Lingtechlingo using a... Continue Reading →
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