Halloween Vocabulary and Activities for French or Spanish Class!

Still looking for Halloween vocabulary and activities for your French or Spanish classes this year? These products includes 35 vocabulary words in the target language with clip art, blank Halloween Bingo cards, directions for how to print off your own Halloween bingo cards online, bingo word list, word search, word scramble, and directions for making virtual Halloween Greeting cards in French or Spanish.  

FLANC Presentation 2012, "Social Networking: Who to Follow for the Best World Language and Technology Teaching Tips and Resources"

Thank you to all of the amazing teachers that attended my session at FLANC (Foreign Language Association of North Carolina) this morning! You were great! As I said in my presentation today, I will be posting my PowerPoint Presentation on the FLANC Conference site that will be available after November 15th. All attendees/members will have access. I believe you have to click on members in order to access the conference documents, and then follow the onscreen instructions.

If you would like to look at the Today's Meet room from our session today to see other participants tips, or comments scan the QR code below, or click on http://todaysmeet.com/flancsocialnetworking.

If you are interested in creating your own QR codes go to http://www.qrstuff.com/.  You can get a free QR code reader App in the Apple App Store. I use the one called QRReader.

Here is the link to Poll Everywhere that I used in my presentation today to learn more about you.  

I know that some of you are wanting access to today's PPT as soon as possible. Here are some of the links that I shared today. The details will be in the PPT.  Sorry about the strange formatting below. That is how it copied and pasted from my presentation. I wanted to get this up ASAP.

Here are my sites and my contact information:

Click "Join this site" or "Follow this blog" on the right!-->

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Lizs-Lessons/ (23 French, Spanish, and technology freebies)

Facebook- Liz’s Lessons

http://pinterest.com/LizsLessons/

https://twitter.com/LizsLessons

http://www.diigo.com/profile/Ebucrek

Google + Liz’s Lessons
  
lizslanguagelessons@gmail.com 

You should consider selling your own teaching materials on Teachers pay Teachers! Just click the link below to sign up.  Elizabeth Bucrek‘s Unique Referral Program Promotion Link  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Signup?ref=ebucrek .   

 Diigo:

http://www.diigo.com/ Diigo is a free social bookmarking site.

http://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

http://www.diigo.com/profile/Ebucrek 

French & Spanish Blogs:
 

http://zachary-jones.com/

http://www.mmeduckworth.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/ sduckworth100  

http://unaclaseconclase.blogspot.com/

http://teachingfsl.blogspot.ca/

http://spanishplans.org/

http://teachingespanol.blogspot.com/


http://kinderlatino.blogspot.com/

http://laprofesorafrida.blogspot.com/ 

http://lewebpedagogique.com/hispadictos/

http://bilingualteacherclubhouse.blogspot.com/ 

http://worldlanguageclassroom.wordpress.com/      

http://foreignlanguagehouse.com/   

http://ordinaryfslteacher.blogspot.ca/ 

http://icionparlefrancais.wordpress.com/

http://francebienvenue1.wordpress.com/  

Technology Blogs: 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://android4schools.com/ 

http://edudemic.com/

 The 50 Education Blogs You’re Reading

http://www.kleinspiration.com/

Tammy’sTechnology Tips for Teachers
  
http://blog.kathyschrock.net/ 

Education Blogs:

 http://www.the-lesson-cloud.com/ 

http://www.teachingblogcentral.com/ 

http://www.teachhub.com 

http://theorganizedclassroomblog.com  

Facebook: 

Top Teacher Resources 

https://www.facebook.com/ScholasticTeachers

https://www.facebook.com/edutopia                              

Top Teacher Freebies 

Twitter:                                                                                                     

https://twitter.com/Angela_Watson  

https://twitter.com/Elisabeth13  

@msfrenchteach

https://twitter.com/Larryferlazzo  

Pinterest: 

http://pinterest.com/jennca/  

http://pinterest.com/miscositaspix/

http://pinterest.com/crob84/?d 

http://pinterest.com/stuffedbackpack/?d 

http://pinterest.com/janafair/?d   

http://pinterest.com/multilingliving/

http://pinterest.com/mrsorman/?d 

FREEBIES: 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/ 

http://www.classroomfreebies.com/ 

http://www.classroomfreebiestoo.com/ 

Top Teacher Freebies  
http://www.teachersnotebook.com/  

French I Vokis

Vokis are a quick and easy way to make listening activities for students, or for students to use for speaking activities! They are much more engaging than the textbook listening activities. You can use them in class for quick listening comprehension activities, or post them on your website for students to use for homework assignments. That way they can listen as many times as they need to.

They are also great for students that are sometimes too shy to speak up in the classroom. With a Voki, they can record their voice at home when no one else is listening, and re-record as many times as they need to.

Sometimes you don't always have time to speak with each student individually during class at the end of every unit in order to assess speaking.  Vokis can be used as one type of speaking assessment as well.

Here are a few Vokis that I made for my French I students to review and reinforce concepts. In addition to the Voki, I post one or two comprehension questions, and ask students to text me, or email me their short answer.

WEATHER AND CLOTHING VOKI

PLACES AND A+ DEFINITE ARTICLES VOKI

CITY VOKI 

ADJECTIVES AND ADJECTIVE AGREEMENT VOKI

French Video Clips with songs for learning AVOIR and ALLER

Our students can always use more practice with verbs in French I. Here are a few video clips of French songs that I have been posting for my online students for practicing the irregular verbs AVOIR and ALLER.

AVOIR ROCK SONG 

LE VERBE ALLER SONG

French Verb Song: Aller from Foreign Language House

Great Glittery Graphics for your Language Teacher Website!

Looking to spice up your teacher website or blog? Need something to catch your students' attention? I have found a few great sites for this that I have been using in daily learning announcements that I post for my online students.

One site that I have been using is Editing Myspace. You can pick the language that you want, and it has graphics in French, Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Ger man.  Zingerbug also has graphics in Spanish.  Zwani has graphics in ten different languages including French, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Italian. You can choose the language if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. Just copy and paste the HTML code to your website, or blog!

Here are a few examples:

Spanish comments

Graphics for French

Comments by ZingerBug.com
 

EditingMySpace.com - Más Hola Comentarios

EditingMySpace.com - Plus Vendredi Commentaires

Top 3 Products and Freebie Linky Party

I'm joining up with Hopkins Hoppin' Happenings for the 

Top 3 Products and a Freebie Linky party! 

My top selling product is Texts & Tweets-Quick Formative Assessments. It is the first product that I ever posted on TpT :)  Students love texting and Twitter. Take advantage of this interest in order to get some formative feedback on their learning to guide your teaching. Only $1.75

My second top selling product is my SUPER Technology Template Bundle! This document contains student instruction sheets/templates for eleven popular websites used in education: Wordle, Glogster, Wallwisher,Stripgenerator, Bombay TV, Blabberize, Voicethread,Xtranormal, LiveBinders,Voki, and Bookemon. It also includes teaching ideas, checklists, and rubrics. It's an easy way to increase how often you use technology in your teaching. This product is only $7.99

 My third top selling product is 18 Formative Assessment Templates! This product includes a variety of classic formative assessments.  It is a great deal for only $4.99.

And the one you are all waiting for...my most downloaded FREEBIE, 10 Active Games! This product has been downloaded 14,286 times! Includes explanations for how to play the Plunger/Flyswatter Game, Concept Relays, Paper Basketball, Catch and Throw, Snowball Fight, Hot Potato, Tic-Tic-Boom, Spelling Race, the Circle Game, and Magnetic Darts. These games were some of my students' favorites!

Video Clips for French I: "Les Chiffres", "L'Alphabet", et "L'Heure"

I have been searching a lot recently for video clips for enhancing learning in the online French I course that  I am teaching. We are not allowed to use YouTube within the course for copyright reasons, so I have been using www.schooltube.com, and www.teachertube.com instead. They do not have as much variety as YouTube yet, but it seems like they are growing, and I have been happy so far with what I have found.

You could use these videos for a warm-up activity, for a pre-teaching activity, or post them on your school website, or class blog as a reference for your students. 

Here are some of the videos that I have used so far: