Thursday, April 10, 2008

Week 2 Blog Post Writing Prompt -Potential of postcasting and editing audio- comment

I never though about pod casting until I listened some of them. I realized that they are very useful because you can make students practice their pronunciation or tell them some tips about how to learn Spanish. In addition, podcast allow teachers to help other teachers to teach because teachers can share this educational podcast. I found one interesting podcast that i would like to incorporate in my curriculum because it talk about some common difficulties in learning Spanish. This podcast also incorporate some speeches from different presidents. But I enjoyed more was the idea that this podcast provide some Spanish sentences that students have to listen to and try to translate in English. Similarly, it podcast have some English sentences that students have to translate in Spanish after a certain time. These are some of the useful podcast I found:

http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=14&openpod=10#anchor10
Inside this address there are many examples of podcast like this:

http://epnweb.org/player.php?podshow=http://m2.slapcast.com/mp3/johan0808/johan0808-2005-04-17.mp3&podcast=Really%20Learn%20Spanish&program=Really%20Learn%20Spanish%20-%205%20(14:56)
With respect to using a student video student created video in class. I think I will use this activity as a group project for a final. They supposed to edit a video in which they make a little video clip in Spanish. For example, they can prepare a script about a conversation in a Mexican restaurant or any other idea related with any topic developed in class. the presentation will be just from five to ten minutes. In this way they will be able to practice their Spanish and have a fun activity in where they can use their creativity.
Note: Mr Eric
I hope to having created good links.
Thanks!!!
Jacqueline V. Chavez

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