Instantly I was excited to see the ID badge. At the beginning of each school year I try to learn each student's name and the Spanish name that each one chooses for the year. There are a lot of names to learn in September. The ID badge connects both the English and Spanish names and their picture. It would assist me and the students to learn and recognize our IDs. These would be fun for the start of the school year, great for "names in a bucket" (throw all of the cards in a bucket and draw out volunteers), and pen pal prompts for in class writing assignments. We could add vocab noting the interests of each student, ages, birthdays for conversation starters. This is a fun way to start the year. We could also use these as our ids for our VoiceThread and blog activities.I am also interested in the trading cards. These could be a great way to visually supplement our culture lessons by making cards for significant Hispanics, by making cards for the people/occupation vocab in our chapters, and even cards of the famous artwork that we try to recognize when we study Hispanic artists. I need to learn more about what access I have to images regarding free use images versus copyright images.
I love all of this manipulation of images and content but the learning curve is very steep for me right now. I am so far from skilled at this. I am trying to work with the Picasa program but am struggling with rookie issues. I am unfamiliar with how to navigate through this program, how to find my images to select for uploading to the Big Huge Lab site. I need more time with the tutorials and practicing the Picasa program. It is hard to be a novice but this seems to happen frequently with me in this course. I am yet again empathetic with my students as they face the challenges of new content in our Spanish courses. I am reminded how valuable it is to have a good teacher to guide me through tricky acquisition of new knowledge and skills.
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