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Using smartphones in the classroom: make short videos
My Beginner Spanish students often work in pairs (me saying “pareja, pareja, pareja” is what they actually remember the most from my courses, I must admit) and this year I noticed that most of them (if...
View ArticleVideo: ¿Qué hiciste ayer?
Here’s one more video created with students’ smartphones, as described in this post. In this case, students were practicing the past tense, so they had to ask each other what they did yesterday and...
View ArticleWeb tools for language learning I
I recently conducted a small workshop in a community college in which I showed the faculty what kind of web tools I use in my classes and how they can be easily implemented. I talked about Google Docs,...
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Duolingo for homework practice, article and Duolingo for schools
I already wrote about how I use Duolingo in my Spanish courses at the university level in this blog. I also completed some formal research about it, wrote and article and it has just been published by...
View ArticleStudent-created mini-videos to foster communicative competence
On Saturday, March 5th, I ran a workshop at the 10th Central Connecticut State University Conference for Language Teachers about how to have students create short videos to foster communicative...
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