Good afternoon,
I have successfully set up some of the students and others are on the way. We also did a very quick welcome video too which I will post shortly. Your Mandarin is excellent and a couple of my Chinese students were very impressed. Now the pressure is on me to learn Spanish.
Nice to finally have a face (and voice) to connect to your posts
I enjoyed surprising your students by speaking Mandarin. We adopted our daughter Alana from the town of Jin Hua in Zhejiang Province in 2000.I have worked in China as a tour director and studied Chinese in Taiwan for a summer. I also studied Chinese at University of Texas at Austin and at the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Arizona. Are your Chinese students native Australians?
ReplyDeleteJose and Manuel Rodriguez (they are not related)are native speakers. They are both in 4th period. Possibly, your students studying Spanish can set up times to talk with them.
In order for students to contact each other, we will have to have each student make a post; it is in the comments section of a blog post, that the students can begin communicating - just like I am doing with you now. This way, everyone can see and learn from other's communications.
Both of our students should post introductions on their blog. I have told my students that they can type part of their post, but they should either include a video or an audio recording. Today began our week of testing. My students that are juniors are testing and seniors are on field trips all week. I told them yesterday that the next step was to make a post on their blog and keep looking at their partner's blog for a post that they can comment on. Hopefully, some of them will work on this at home or at a library. I've also assigned for them to make audio or video recordings about one of the assignments or vocabulary.
I am very excited that we are really beginning our collaboration.
Mrs. Stovall
I just realized that your school dog has the same name as my daughter - Alana.
ReplyDeleteI need to know what days and times your students are in your class. I will convert the time to our time and post it. Now that some of my students have web cams, they could arrange a web meeting with their partner. The time that your students are in school and mine are at home is really our only window for real time conversations. Your students could include the time that they are your class in their intro post.
ReplyDeleteThis puts the real time conversations in your court. If my student is just meeting with their partner, then a small webcam will be fine. If a lot of your students want to join in, you would want a wide angle web camera on the computer they are conversing on in order for everyone to be seen. That Logitech C910 web cam would be good for this. It is the web cam with the cool special effects.
I would also like for you to video your students talking to my student, and then upload it. This would encourage more collaboration meeting and students watching the video could learn what ever economic topics were discussed during the meeting. I have a Flipcam that makes videoing anywhere easy; Even the upload is super easy.
I was mistaken about the students being in testing all week; they only tested on Tusday. They are back at work.
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