World+Languages

= World Languages =

Technology Committee Rep: Elizabeth Randall
=__Technology in use in Spanish 4__ = ==I used BrainSharkfrom the web2.0 that Lori Miller showed me. I guess I should say the Spanish 4 students used it. At the beginning of the year they made paper dolls that we called "mini mi". During Chapter 1 we discussed Spain's history and culture. At the end of Chapter 1 I used BrainSharkfor a project/alternative assessment. == ==The students had to create a slide show presentation of their Mini Mi's trip to Spain incorporating certain details that we covered in the chapter, as well as give an audio description in Spain to go with the slide show. We took pictures of their "Mini Mi" and cropped them on ActiveInspire to paste into photos they found on the internet, used the camera on the ActiveInspire to take a picture of their Mini in the backdrop and paste it into a PowerPoint, finally uploaded the PPT into BrainShark and added the audio. ( If we cropped the Mini and tried to paste it into PPT it would paste in with a dark square around it, so to overcome this issue we had to use the camera function mentioned above) == ==The students enjoyed the project once they got the hang of it. Of course there were technological gliches along the way. A repeating one was students saving their work to a computer and then not remembering which computer they used and thus not finding their project. My biggest issue was that it was quite time consuming. I am not sure that they Spanish they got out of it was worth the week+ that it took to do. == ==You can view these by going to BrainShark and search for Mini Mi or Mini Me or Pirata Pete. There are others save as various names, but these would be good examples. ==