Brillante Viernes: May 4, 2018

Whew!  Friday in May is exhausting for everyone!  I traveled to Lexington to the gorgeous campus of Washington and Lee to record an interactive webinar Thursday evening.  Thank you SO much to everyone who watched and I will share the video and some of my additional resources soon.  I am excited for the first Maryland CI meet-up on Saturday, and I am hoping to facilitate some more in the coming months.  And, I will need some naps after all of this!  In the meantime, here are some of my favorite posts from this week:

• Check out Martina’s list of brain breaks!
• Make sure you have time soon to listen to episode 7 of Inspired Proficiency.
• This looks like an amazing end of the year fiesta PBL!
• Also, World Cup songs are always some of my favorites (and I still use them in class!) Kara has already published some resources on them!
• And while we are getting ready for summer, check out Matt’s list of summer reading books.

And now… a flashback to my blog!

• Last year, I learned more about Lead with Languages.  Check out their website if you haven’t yet.
• Ironically, I am playing Goosechase again today!
• How I made audio QR codes
• Developing presentational writing
• Interpersonal speaking and presentational writing activity
• Reflecting on the fishbowl activity
• A fun end of class activity

Also, I wanted to publish my presentation from yesterday here, and add a few links that I had mentioned for everyone who attended:

I hope that I remember them all, so here we go!

• Here is my post on GimKit to explain how it works
• The Spanish EdPuzzle database
• The MovieTalk database (that can be used for all languages)
• And a longer explanation of MovieTalk if you want to know more!
• Spanish 2 Flipgrid and Spanish 1 Flipgrid
• Laura’s Flipgrid for novice listening
• I mentioned how I start my class with Story Listening which is completely non-tech (other than showing the video at the end!)  This is one way that I start class- story listening with scripts from Kara!
• More of an explanation why I ditched my bellringer and I discuss a bit more on the Inspired Proficiency podcast episode 6
• More of my tips on teaching with technology
• And also two other places where I blog: edcampCIVa (Which I hope people who watched the webinar will attend!) and Path2Proficiency

Whew!  I think that is it!  Let me know if I missed anything that I mentioned or you want to know more.