The hard part is that it’s a big leap for the teacher. Even for the teachers who are comfortable creating content, it’s a big risk to promote student-learning via content creating. And for me, a tech coordinator with 300 students, 40 faculty members and 50 computers to support, the time it takes to (a) assist the teacher in creating, managing and delivering the lesson and (b) assist the students in their content creation is daunting.

But the payoff is tremendous.

Silvia, I whole-heartedly support both student and teacher created content.
In fact, I am contemplating/struggling with ways to incorporate both into
my Spanish classes. I say struggling, because I am doing it on my own,
without much education and support from the Tech. dept. at my school. I
blogged about this very topic on my own blog recently.

For example, I want to create a blog for my level 2s, but I can’t quite
envision how this would manifest itself in a Spanish class. I don’t want
the blog to just be a repository of work I have assigned to students.

Additionally, I have an iPod classic, purchased for me by the school.
However, the operative word is one iPod. How do I make a go of this when I
teach 10-15 students at a time? How do I promote the process of learning
Spanish via student-created work with just one iPod?

Silvia, if you have suggestions re: the utility of a class blog in a level
2 Spanish class, and how to promote process of learning and student
created projects via one iPod, I would really appreciate it.

I anxiously await your reply.