Thanks to Josh for helping me create a new google group for AP French teachers. This is meant to help replace the old College Board listserv, which is being phased out. Here is the link to the new group: http://groups.google.com/group/ap-french-discussion-group Please help me spread the word to other AP French teachers you might know! [...]
We’ve just done the first project this year where everyone was required to use imovie. The results were generally quite good: kids seemed to like the project, and they had very few issues using the cameras or imovie. The finished products looked really great. Another positive was that is felt more equitable to have everyone [...]
As I said before, my new classroom is more spacious and more conducive to keeping a laptop and projector permanently set up and accessible. I have been weaning myself off chalk, and instead I am typing all my class notes in a word document which I project and then post to the class website after [...]
I am also using the macbooks with my French 3 st. class to do their Francophone country project. After many agonizing usb-losing dramas int he past, I said everyone has to use google docs this time. Except for one very responsible girl who I am letting make a movie instead, everyone is using google docs. [...]
My post-AP exam project this year for the AP French is having them make a FLE (Français Langue Etrangère) educational blog. We are using the macbooks. They are using a website put out by a French educational organization, so it is all in French. http://lewebpedagogique.com/apfrench/ I am really enjoying this project! Not only does it [...]
As I said in my last post, we used the new macbooks to research Francophone countries and make powerpoint presentations in French 3 acc. Some kids tried out keynote, and some used google docs. Making accents with keyboard shortcuts is really easy with the macs, so that is one thing that is now easier about [...]
We recently got a mobile mac lab with 20 computers in Newell, along with new, fast wifi for them. It is wonderful! Our old lab was so slow that it was pretty much unusable. My French 3 acc classes have been working on PowerPoints of Francophone countries, and French 3 standard has been using googledocs [...]
I’m enjoying the flip cameras, but i need some training with imovie. We are getting some mac training in our dept soon, so hopefully imovie will be a part of that! I’d like to do more projects with kids recording themselves with the flip cam this semester. I’m hoping to work that into French 3 [...]
My task for Josh’s committee is using Flip Cameras and iMovie to create and share student work. I recorded my q1 midterm orals for all my classes, and uploaded these videos to the macbook. Josh showed me software that would compress the files (“handbrake”) so that I can upload them to the internet more easily. [...]