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SPANISH VERBS & CONJUGATION High School Spanish Levels 1-Advanced Rebecca Harper Winter/Spring 2014

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  • 1. SPANISH VERBS & CONJUGATION High School Spanish Levels 1-Advanced Rebecca Harper Winter/Spring 2014

2. RATIONALE FOR TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION One of the many challenges of teaching a Foreign Language is creating authentic situations for students to practice their verbal skills. Technology, when implemented appropriately, can be an extremely useful tool in developing lessons to help students practice and master a language. This presentation will share websites, blogs, programs, videos, graphic builders, and more that can be integrated and utilized by teachers and students in and out of the classroom. 3. INTERNET CONTENT Each resource present as been reviewed and used by other educators and has shown to be reliable and effective. Please note that these are suggestions and how you utilize and incorporate these resources, or not, in your classroom depend on your individual teaching style, comfort with the material and site, as well as the needs of your students. All material is referenced and cited below in the Notes section of this presentation. Click on graphics to link you through to individual sites. 4. BLOG 5. PODCAST & VIDEO 6. KHAN ACADEMY 7. INTERNET RESOURCES: Real Academia Espanola Is the website dedicated to the Spanish language in Spain where a board comes together each year to pick new words to enter into the Spanish Dictionary or to change any grammar. This site, and any of the other Spanish Academies throughout the Spanish-speaking world would help students find words and use a site in the target language. SpanishDict is an online Spanish dictionary, verb conjugator, and grammar reference. Students could use this as a dictionary to help define and translate any verbs as well as review how to conjugate. In addition, there are lists of frequently used verbs and resources to identify and practice irregular verbs. Conjugemos is an site where students can practice conjugating verbs by playing a game that gives a certain amount of time to conjugate as many verbs as possible correctly. You can refine what types of verbs, the amount of time, etc. based on what you need to practice. 8. INSPIRATION: GRAPHIC ORGANIZER This graphic organizer was created using Inspiration Software yet there are many programs and apps that can create a similar GO (i.e. Lucidchart via Google Apps) 9. TEACHING MATERIAL: WORKSHEET A table, made with Microsoft Word, can be used to help students practice conjugating verbs using different verbs and subject pronouns. This allows students to see how to manipulate verbs from the infinitive form into conjugated for and then the translation from English- Spanish. Every student would get multiple sheets with this table in order to practice as much as needed. Infinitivo: Radical/Raz: Yo Tu l, ella, usted Nosotros/as Vosotros/as Ellos, ellas, ustedesSingularPlural 10. TEACHING MATERIALS: CARTOONS Here are sections of two cartoons created by Zachary Jones to help explain when and how to use the verbs to be in Spanish: Ser y Estar . Info graphics and cartoons and be made using Visually, Infogram, Easelly, Piktochart. 11. TEACHING MATERIAL: INFO GRAPHICS Info graphics, as shown below, are great visual aids to help students, especially visual learners, understand what subject pronouns are, why they are important when in verb conjugation, and the patterns behind conjugating verbs. 12. TEACHING MATERIAL: APPS Many Apps for Smartphones or Tablets can be used to enhance classroom learning. Pictured are Livemocha, which connects students worldwide to language learners and native speakers, SpanishDict is a dictionary and grammar reference, and VoiceThread, which allows teachers to pre-select pictures and have students record/narrate what the pictures show. 13. SUBJECT-SPECIFIC WEBSITES The following sites are dedicated solely to Spanish and include a wide variety of lessons, activities, and ways to practice vocabulary and grammar. I would specifically point out or incorporate the section on Conjugating Verbs to supplement my lesson(s) and offer my students another way of learning the concept and more options to practice.StudySpanish.com Trinity College Spanish Grammar Colby College Grammar and Practice Mi Vida Loca via BBC 14. USING THE INTERNET: SKYPE By using SKYPE in the classroom I would be able to have students connect with each other using laptops and headphones to allow them to speak directly to each other in the target language. They would not only practice speaking in the language but they could also help explain to each other various concepts, i.e. verb conjugation, via Skype.Also, with the ability to connect to anyone around the world, we could utilize Skype to connect with another classroom within the US or elsewhere in the world to practice our language skills. If we linked with another classroom elsewhere and followed a similar curriculum we could have students practice using vocabulary and verb conjugation for each unit. 15. USING THE INTERNET: VOICETHREAD VoiceThread is a remarkable program that allows teachers to compile a series of pictures and then ask students to describe what is happening. This is a perfect way to have students use their language skills. Each series could be used to focus on utilizing different vocabulary, verb tenses, verb moods, prepositions and more!Presentation can be viewed on Slideshare 16. WEB 2.0 SMART BOARD LESSONS Using SMART technology teachers can create their own lessons and then share those lessons on the SMART website. This is a great interactive tool to engage students as well as a way to collaborate and utilize other teachers resources/lessons. Here are some Smart Board activities related to Verbs and Conjugations: