Boston,+ACTFL+Conference


 * // These are some of the workshops I had the opportunity to attend in Boston at the Annual Conference and World Language Expo ACTFL. November, 2010... //**

  The ultimate classroom interaction. E ngaging and innovative singing, chanting and role-playing strategies that reinforce generic vocabulary and grammar objectives, while motivating students to learn.    Today’s digital reality. Ideas and resources to language educators aimed at making learning relevant in our technological age.    Creating innovative, interdisciplinary thematic units to craft critical thinkers. Discovering how to create motivating activities and assessments, through technology, that go beyond both the textbook and walls of the classroom. http://thinkthematic.wikispaces.com[[thinkthematic:home|/]]      Spanish resources from the Embassy of Spain. Received information about the resources and materials offered by the Spanish Ministry of Education and other institutions. Here are some I would like to share: [|http[[http://www.educacion.es/redele/enlaces.shtml|://www.educacion.es/redele/enlaces.shtml#][|referencia]]] [|http://cvc.cervantes.es][|/]      Ten steps to total fluency. In this session, John Conner, Spanish teacher at Groton school and author of the acclaimed Breaking the Barrier series, leaded participants through ten activities or steps to make classes more productive. [|http][|://www.tobreak.com/the-ideal-lesson-][|plan] ; <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.4in; margin-top: 4.8pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.4in; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">