I try to incorporate tech into my lessons when possible. To date the two most "techie" lessons that I do are:
German 3 - Creating Digital Children's Books. After learning about the narrative past, each student creates their own digital children's book all in German. They have the possibility of creating the projects using various formats ie. Power Point, iMovie, Windows Movie Maker.
German 5 - Creating a Class News Broadcast. As a completion to German 5, the entire class works together to create a full newscast covering national and international news, weather, sports, personal interest stories, a does it work segment, and an interview with someone. The kids do all of the script writing, acting, directing, filming and editing. Some filming is done in school in our media room and other segments are completed by the students outside of school.
A goal for this program is to learn more ways of incorporating tech into my classes especially new ways to enhance the communicative actions and opportunities for my students.
Here is a photo of my awesome family: my wife Jessica, who teaches art, my daughter Estella and my son Oscar.
