Audiria
Audiria is a site that offers podcasts in Spanish as a learning tool. All of the podcasts are free and has a variety of materials like games, learning idioms, quizzes and tests. The site posts a new podcast everyday, so the content is current and one can always find new and different material. One feature I liked is that all of the podcasts are tagged by how complex the language is, so it will be easy to find ones that are suitable for my Spanish 1 and Spanish 4 classes. The podcasts cover a wide range of topics and cover several topics that are in my curriculum so I can add this as a supplement to those chapters. I have never used podcasts in the classroom and I think I will start using this site because not only is the Spanish authentic in the podcasts, each podcast comes with prepared activities for the students to complete.
Blog #2
1/26 - 2/2
We looked at Moodle courses created by past EDT students and it gave me a better idea on what my Moodle will potentially look like. It was interesting to see how many different applications were utilized that I have not used yet like Vocaroo, MyOn, ShowMe, Padlet and Flubaroo. I will have to look into these apps and add them to my PLN. I also learned how to change the sections and rename them properly and how to add an activity or resource to each section. It seems relatively easy to manage the Moodle and to keep each section organized now that I know more on how to edit the sections and what I need to include in each section. Adding a glossary will be useful to my Moodle lesson because there will be many terms in Spanish and the students will be able to look the words up that are not familiar to them. Adding assignments and forums can be added with just a click on the activities/resource menu and the menu has quite a few options like labels, links, files, URLs, etc. for the user to add to their Moodles.
Purpose Games
Purpose Games is a site that reminds me of Sporcle. If you're not familiar with Sporcle, Sporcle is a website that contains timed trivia games on almost any category one can think of. Just like Sporcle, Purpose Games is free. The user can create custom games, share them and play them. The only difference I was able to see between the two sites was that on Purpose Games, the user can use images and maps instead of text. I have not seen or used this feature on Sporcle, so I am not positive if it is an option on Sporcle. Both are great sites for trivia or review on a subject matter.
Blog #1
1/19 - 1/26
Today in class we learned how to use Blogger. First, we created an account and then we selected the appearance. Next, we learned how to add an link and then how to save our blog. I then learned how to add a title and how to publish my blog and view it. We reviewed how to add a link to our Moodle so that it could be viewed. We then learned how to use basic functions on our personal Moodle. We were able to make our Moodle visible to the other students in the class. It was nice putting some faces to some names from last semester's EDT 500 online course.I started using Blogger back in 2008 when we took a school trip to Costa Rica and used it as a means to keep the parents updated every day. I also used it for our school trip to China and to Spain. I have not used it since, so I'm looking forward to blogging again.
