Learn French: Audio Lessons For Fast & Easy Online Learning This is a course where beginners can learn French online with tutorials covering basic vocabulary words, grammar rules, phrases, verbs and conjugations tables, numbers, pronunciation and songs, basic conversations and much more!
I had intially posted an assignment I plan to do a bit later with my French III class, but later decided to improve a blog assignement I had previously done with my French I class. Since I will be using the lesson this week with French I , thought it would be better if I could provide actual feedback by my students. I'll be adding a new post to update this lesson later in the week.
The actual lesson plan is on my blog I use with my students. When I first started blogging I made a category for teachers, but I find it more beneficial to keep the student and teacher posts in a separate place.
Embedded below is the lesson plan I updated for the Blog Based assignment. I found that the process of lesson writing was very recursive. I had to edit the lesson plan several times while I was creating the post for my student blog. I'll update it again when I actually use it with my students.
I ran into some formatting problems when I was creating the post, so there may be some difference in the fonts and sizes of fonts. I also tried to highlight everything that was a direction with the color red to make it easier for the students to see exactly what the directions were.
My other blogs
When I started my blog a year ago, I started with one general blog. I quickly learned I needed different blogs for different projects/classes. As I became more familiar with embedding and creating posts, I had my students to become student authors and they could do their own embedding. Here are my student blogs:
Mon Enfance - My French II class was working on narrating in the past with the preterite and imperfect and their created a collage of childhood memories and a comic book of what life what like when they were younger. They presented both the collage and the comic book in French using the Smart Board to aid the presentation.
Bon Voyage-My French III class had traditionally done a travel project with a scrapbook and last year I migrated the scrapbook to blog posts. This was not an easy task... In an ideal situation I would have had all of the posts created before I got started, but it was not possible to do so. Now that I have student samples I know what to modify for this year.
Chevaliers 3 Projets- My French III class has a separate blog for their assignemnts. I create a link from the main blog to the French III blog whenever they have an assignment. This week I started a wiki with both French III and French AP to facilitate collaborative writing.
Les Meilleurs AP- My French AP class reads the play, "Au Revoir Les Enfants." This blog is for their projects relating to the novel, World War II, and France Under Occupation.
Nos Projets 4 My French AP class members had to create a French identity and find an appartment in France. This is the blog for their assignements and projects. As mentioned earlier, I have recently started a wiki with French AP to facilitate collaborative writing.
Continuous Improvement Website- Cedar Rapids Community Schools.
Goal setting, mission statements, class meetings, data folders, and more. This is a GOLDMINE of information with many forms and templates that can be customized.
Classroom Curriculum Connections: A Teacher's Handbook for Personal-Professional Growth professional development guide by Saskatchewan Learning encourages Collaborative Planning as a professional goal for all teachers to consider.
CASLS is a K-16 National Foreign Language Resource Center promoting international literacy by supporting communities of educators and by partnering with those communities to develop a comprehensive system of proficiency-based tools for lifelong language learning and teaching. Customizable newsletter once a week.
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When you first arrive in a foreign culture, you start at the tip of the iceberg. Above the waterline, which represents your level of cultural awareness, are the actions, thoughts, and words (observational behavior) of a culture. What you don’t see, however, until your water level lowers revealing more of the iceberg is the beliefs, values, and assumptions of a culture that motivates the observational behavior above the surface. Thus, the waterline is one of the reasons wars are fought and you can’t help but feel lost when exposed.
Integrating ICT in MFL Classroom- This should be your starting point for how to integrate technology into your classroom. There are extensive podcasts, slide shows, etc. Joe Dale has done an amazing job harnessing useful resources. His blog is what inspired me to create my own. Furthermore, his students at the
Nodehill
School
have great podcasts that you can subscribe to in ITunes.
Podcasts Foreign Language.Podcasts are a great way to bring language into your classroom. Buying an IPod (I have the third generation Nano which has video capacity) allows you to listen and view on the go. You can also hook your IPod to the TV with a special cord.
ITunes download – You can search for podcasts in the ITunes store.
Creating online surveys with analysis of the results. The free version allows you to see the results for only 10 days.10 days are enough for my purposes.
Ikeepbookmarks - My personal bookmarks. I have collected hundreds of sites useful to me. I can access my bookmarks from any computer and this has been a life saver for me!
The Foundation provides teachers with authentic French language materials and easy to use, classroom tested lesson plans and related methodologies that engage students, teach French language skills and promote the study of francophone cultures. Carole was an African American singer who was most famous by her recordings in
France
with Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones. She is my inspiration…
* Although this video was created after Carole's death, her distinctive voice is ever present in the song. There is a brief clip of Carole in this video.
A larger than life figure with a generous spirit, Carole was a performer who threw herself into her live performances body and soul. She liked nothing more than getting involved in fund-raising tours with singers and musician friends. Indeed, Carole was a regular at charity concerts organized by Restos du Cœur and Les Enfoirés. On March 8th (2001)... she brought the house down at “Voix de l’Espoir [Voices of Hope]” concert organized on International Women’s Day. Taking the stage at Club Med World in Paris with a host of other female singers including Princess Erika, Jocelyne Beroard, Rokia Traoré and Lââm, Carole helped to raise much needed funds for the construction of a Pan-African children’s hospital in Dakar [Senegal, West Africa].”
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Style Statement
There is only one me... remarkable, original, unrepeatable and sacred
Cosmopolitan Nostalgic
La Tour Eiffel
Eiffel Tower 360 Panorama
View the panoramic view of La Tour Eiffel here
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/360-panorama-paris/index-fr.html
Paris Scmap Guide
Click photos to see my pic of the Moulin Rouge. You may have to wait a while. Quite a few pics! You can also click on "See Review" when you see the pic of the Moulin Rouge.
