Technostress: Symptoms of anxiety caused by the use or the thought of use of technology. It does NOT have to happen to you. Do YOU need a converter box as much as your soon -to- become -digital TV?- Check out some Web 2.0 application listings courtesy of the Web 2.0 itself! Easy to manage, search, and... 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 →
Inspiration and Kidspiration Webs as Language Learning Tools
Teaching with concept webs in L2. The rationale of Vygotsky, ZPDs and the Affective Filter As a believer in constructivism and scaffolding, I also believe firmly in Vygotsky's ZPD theory (Zone of Proximal Development), which states that students should be pushed to a next level once a skill is acquired. When we teach second languages it... Continue Reading →
Kidspiration, EFL, and FLES- Combine well
Sample Activity Using Kidspiration for L2/ESL learners Objectives: To use inference skills To make predictions To accurately identify an animal in the target language To apply descriptive phrases in the target language To recognize language in print To recognize oral language To apply descriptions to nouns To organize graphically the ideas of a process Target... Continue Reading →
Spanish/ESL 2.0 – Valentine’s using www.Cryptogram.com
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 http://www.cryptogram.com, a website where you create your own candy hearts. At first, I did the slide myself to conduct... Continue Reading →
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