Colleen

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[] I found this article article very interesting. I graduated from college seven years ago and never had the opportunity to use this technology in college! There was so much information on note taking and mapping. The sparknote site was very detailed and had more than just literature. I used a similar site a few years ago when I started reading Don Quixote in Spanish and it was useful. However, I hope that students are actually reading the material first before looking at Sparknotes. I am also puzzled about using wikipedia and yahoo answers for academics. I've used it for asking questions about travel and cat health, but not academics. Overall, a very nice and eye-opening article.

A link to our classmates' views on blogging: []

John, Therese, Andrew and I chatted about internet safety. Watch our discussion by clicking on the link! []

Here is a picture of a very nice giraffe. It is in the Fisher Building in lovely Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. I took this picture on a digital camera, uploaded it onto the desktop, then uploaded it onto Flicker and finally uploaded it onto the Wiki. I could use pictures to start as writing prompts or to use as images in Power Points when I introduce vocabulary. There are countless uses for photos and I will use my travel photos for a lot of purposes.

This is a link to my video page. I have two videos up on the page. I am in a Spanish Food unit in my Spanish 4 class. I show several videos from El cocinero fiel, the faithful/constant/loyal cook, which for some reason is translated to "The Funky Cook" on some videos. He shows you, step by step, the directions of how to make authentic Spanish cuisine. I give students a worksheet, where they have to name the ingredients in Spanish, define the verbs in English (to peel, to blend, to add, etc.), and will need to put the steps in order (all written in Spanish). After watching six videos, four from El Cocinero Fiel, one from another person on you tube, and a video from The Frugal Gourmet, they take an open-notes quiz to see what they learned on recipes and food. They have to write an original recipe using the vocabulary they learned. []