In January, I attended a session by Hall Davidson at FETC titled "Revenge of the Digital Immigrant ". After 3 months, I remember th examples of how Davidson demonstrated that the new generation learns with shorter and shorter clips/segments of information. In order to get their point across, commercials decades ago used to be several [...]

For a while now, I have taken photos of food in different countries. I am uploading them to my Flickr Account Set .
Feel free to use them in any digital storytelling project or world language learning class. Also check out the Times Photo Essay What the World eats?
BTW, I used Splashr to embed the [...]

Just the title of my blog is a give away that languages play an important part in my life. Growing up with German and Spanish and then living immersed in English for the past 20 years gives me a different perspective than a monolingual person.
I often wonder if a monolingual person feels “imprisoned” by their [...]

Crosspost from Egypt Blog .
It has been amazing how many languages and people from different countries have been surrounding us. Egypt is a country that attracts visitors from all over the world. Tour guides have told us that there are mainly coming from Russia and Spain, but we have seen so many different nationalities [...]

Today was the first day of German Summer Camp. I have 18 campers between the ages of 6-12 year olds. I try to let them experience a little bit of everything in this one week/three hours a day camp: Music-History-Culture-Food-Language.
The overall themes for this year’s camp is the capital of Germany: Berlin
I talked to them [...]

Here is a list of Podcasts that I am subscribed to in the interest of being a foreign language educator and instructional technologist.
Technology:

The Tech Teachers
KidCast: Podcasting in the Classroom
Eelementary: Technology in the Elementary Classroom
The Savy Technologist
Spanish Teacher:Notes from Spain

In preparation for the fall, I am adding a seperate blog for my adult Spanish class. Let’s see how managing several blogs through Bloggger works. Adult Spanish 1

Maestra’s Spanish Speaking Countries Podcast is UPLOADED ! 21 countries in North America, South America, Africa and Europe.
You can also subscribe in iTunes to the Podcast. Click on "Advanced", then "Subscribe to Podcast" , then enter the following address:
http://www.sjeds.com/podcast/spanish/countries/RSS_feed_maestra.xml
RESOURCES USED "From Castles to Cowboys" by Scott E. Fredrickson (available through Concordia Programs ) "Rock de [...]

I have added my first Podcast to iTunes. The Podcast is for my 5th and 6th grade students and intended as an audio study guide about all Spanish speaking countries in the world.
They can subscribe to the Podcast via iTunes by clicking "Advanced", then "Subscribe to Podcast" , then entering the following address:
http://www.sjeds.com/podcasts/spanish/countries/RSS_feed_maestra.xml
I have created [...]