My experience with Voice Threads

Wow! Voice thread is a web-based communications network for my work with high school students. It's simple, powerful and safe. Definitively, voice thread is a place for creating and collaborating on digital stories and documentaries, practicing and documenting language skills.
I see and I read that all voice threads are private by default, and creators can easily control who can view, edit and comment on content.
I'm happy with this discovery that can help me as a Spanish teacher.

My ideas of teaching Spanish in the classroom

Why should we learn Spanish?

I chose this topic because Spanish is the third language spoken in the world. It's my first language, and I love it. Because when we speak English and Spanish (especially in U. S.) , we are offered a wider range of opportunities.

We can ask ourselves these questions:

1. Is Spanish an important language in U.S.A.?

2. How can you learn Spanish?
3. How can your world become wider?


Knowledge and skills

(1) Reading/Fluency. Students read grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. Students are expected to:

(A) read aloud grade-level text with accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing, and comprehension; and

(B) use prosody when reading aloud grade-level text based on the reading purpose and the nature of the text.

(2) Reading/Vocabulary Development. Students understand new vocabulary and use it when reading and writing. Students are expected to:

(A) determine the meaning of grade-level academic Spanish words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes;

(B) use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple meaning words;

(C) complete analogies that describe part to whole or whole to part (e.g., motor:carro como aire: ____ or carro:motor como llanta: ____); and

(D) use a dictionary, a glossary, or a thesaurus (printed or electronic) to determine the meanings, syllabication, spelling, alternate word choices, and parts of speech of words.

Why should we use this blog? \¿Por qué este "blog?"

The blog will help support student learning. We can use visual media as well as text to help enhance the learning experience in the classroom. It will also help parents observe classroom lessons that are taught. Teachers can design lessons several days in advance and add content relating to teaching ideas for other teachers to view. Teachers can publish students work, so parents can follow along with students progress.