carlatech

Great tech for education. Former Spanish teacher!

Blog and podcast about education and technology.

In this Journal that I follow, they have many different authors discuss topics ranging from technologies use for, by Deaf people, education for deaf children, parent-child relationships, to language development.

This is a big issue we are facing in our community. This what I was mentioning about using media as academic resources. Also many different fields required a very specific vocabulary so often interpreters are not able to keep up with academic languages because they are taught the community language.

Josh Murdock offers three tips to engage students: #1: Create a Community From the Start, #2: Assign an "All About Me" Project, and #3: Use Video Announcements

Great way to get my students' attention by having them to fill in the missing word.

Basic primer for those of us just starting to explore curation tools and looking to find the right fit.

List of episodes tagged "technology" on the We Teach Languages podcast. Topics include tech tools, eportfolios, digital games, Google translate, online teaching, and more! I learned about Adobe Spark from episode 103 w Heide Trude.

In a fast changing world impacted by technological advances, language usage becomes "one of the factors being altered most drastically." And as language teachers, most of us feel language teaching has become inevitably bound to technology more and quickly. All this is talked about in "The Edtech Podcast" posted here. Listening through the lengthy audio discussion on how language learning is or can or should be equipped with technology one way or another, one can be happier to see "both sides of change: how we must adjust and what we can take advantage of."

Some colleagues, Eliot Borenstein (Professor of Russian @ NYU) and Shannon Spasova (Assistant Professor of Russian @ Michigan State), started this FB group in the spring and it has been an invaluable forum for me to connect with instructors around the country throughout the spring emergency remote instruction and into planning for fall. It also provides some comic relief.

This site has royalty free pictures and videos that can be used in class without worrying about copyright issues.

I came across this blog looking for communicative activities to do with students online. They have an online immersion program for several different languages but also maintain different blogs for certain audiences. This one is the "General Educator Blog." I found their content helpful and really informative.

I found it very relevant. Would like to try FluentU but not sure if there are free resources. The subcription is $20/mo, not cheap...

I share this with my GTAs. It is another resource that is no longer active. But, the past podcasts prove useful, especially while designing online content, interactions and lessons. Sometimes, the technology is so exciting and enticing that the pedagogy gets a little overshadowed.