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Create World Language Materials with AI

As World Language teachers, we’re constantly creating materials. I have set out to attempt to automate some of that creation. My district has supplied me with a tool that seems worthy to explore, Brisk Teaching, which is a teaching-specific large language model with full Google Drive and Canva integration. My secondary agenda here is that…
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Quick Warm ups with Crossword Puzzles

I want my students to practice high frequency words and to start to work on their spelling. I was thrilled to discover that my students can get that practice through a quick warm up in class generated by Canva’s AI assistant. On Canva there is a crossword game that the AI assist will rewrite with…
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Three ideas to use Google Slides creatively in the classroom

In teaching communication and culture, I make the most of Google Slides in student activities because it is an application that makes visual support easy. In this post I will tell you about three creative ways to interactively use Google Slides in the classroom by sharing ideas I have learned from others. The teacher can…
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Boom Cards

For the first time this year I am using Boom Cards, as they allow students to hear the language, respond to show understanding and get immediate feedback while working at their own speed. The app Boom Cards is a product of Boom Learning and is an online digital resource. I would like to suggest you…
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Quick Start to using the Massachusetts World Language Framework

This year, in 2021, our state finally updated the World Language standards. You may be thinking about how you can align your teaching to these standards. If you were already following ACTFL’s World-Readiness Standards, you will find this document very familiar. But for some of us, the framework will mean changes in the way we…
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Presenting a Session at a Conference

This post is about presenting a session and as an example I am sharing one I presented at MaFLA 2018 called Cartoons, Sitcoms, and Competition Shows: French television as authentic resources. The set of slides for the presentation and all the handouts are linked below. You may enjoy those resources for your own classroom and…
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Making a Project a Task

Inspired by the book While we’re on the Topic by Bill Van Patten, I have been thinking about how tasks, as opposed to activities, fit into my teaching. And mostly recently, I have been exploring how a project in the World Language proficiency classroom can become a task. My most clear understanding of a task…
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Building Relationships between language teachers

Some language teachers are the only one or one of a few in their building. Other language teachers have a department to rely on, but may be in a different place in their professional development than their colleagues. I have a great colleague who I talk to every day and in years past I planned…
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A refreshing new idea: Organic World Language

Jacqueline from Organic World Languages came to our K-12 World Language department today to teach how to do a language circle. I was very excited for the session as my interest in OWL has been building since I attended a short workshop by them at ACTFL. I find their approach to be a good new…
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Ready-made IPAs

Novice and Intermediate French IPAs from Lisa Shepard, Cécile Lainé and Rebecca Blouwolff As you create your own IPAs, it is helpful to take a look at examples on the web. Let me walk you through three sources. You may want to use some of these examples as they are or you may want to…
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