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The Classic Film Club came in today to watch part of a film during lunch. They had a good showing: 17 students snuggled in the Welcome Area, munching on lunch and enjoying Chinatown. Presidents Emily and Sofia may be willing to add foreign films to their viewing program, which is great news, since I was hoping to get a group of students in here during lunches to familiarize themselves with French, German, Spanish, and Chinese cinema.
Meanwhile, Becky López’s class works on a class project in the Instructional Area…
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I’ve been learning a little bit about qtz composer, enough to modify a few screen savers and spice up life in the hallways a little…thanks to support associates for getting me set up…and thanks to tumblr.com for making it easy to create RSS feeds of French, German, Spanish, Latin, and Chinese vocabulary…
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Several students, with the help of Computer Science teacher Baker Franke and Math teacher Farukh Khan, have been working on setting up a cluster of SunBlade servers that were donated by the Zoology department at the University. They’re starting the setup in the WLL until they can find a permanent home somewhere else in the school. The completed cluster will be able to compute prime numbers, run complex mathematical problems, and do supercool scientific computing. We hope that the Space Goddesses will look favorably upon them…
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I think Lab has a monopoly on cute kids.
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Mme. Jackson put together a wonderful collection of internet games that help her 3rd graders practice the vocab they’ve been learning in class. Today they were practicing parts of the body. Take a peak.
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Ms. Guerrero’s class created poster boards about various famous hispanic personalities. Check out their work below.
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Vicki Schneider and Diane Jackson’s 7th grade French classes met for a fabulous Moroccan meal prepared by each of the students. What variety of delicious and diverse platters! Kudos to teachers and students for all their careful preparation.
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WLD Faculty met on Tuesday for our first technology workshop. We reviewed how to use Spotlight, connect to the different file servers, and played with a program called Comic Life. We also played a game of Techno-Bingo to review important training items from the Fall Introduction. Where there is chocolate, there is joy.
Here are a few of the comic life strips we made as samples:
The idea is to have one from each teacher by the end of next week for their profiles on this blog - so check up on us in coming weeks to see fascinating interpretations of ourselves vis-a-vie Comic Life!
p.s. Students can play with this tool at any point during the school day to make target language comics in the lab…
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It’s a silly thing, but it’s so helpful when students leave their workstations as nice (or better) than they found them. I’ve come up with a 3P slogan to as a reminder that we can all leave a legacy of cleanliness [Congratulations! You found the clue. Now search for "how many computers are in the lab" in the blog search box].
This side of messy:
This side of nice:
This side of lovely (note microphones pointing up):
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Here are some clips of teachers focused on planning great classes and students focused on learning through audio exercises in the lab. We had a very nice sub the last couple of days, stepping in for Becky López. She enjoyed the images on the AppleTV screen saver so much, she even wrote a poem and haiku about it! I won’t embarrass her by name, but you know who you are. Thank you for your reflections.
MOVING MURAL
Upon the wall, the pictures dance,
I love the way the move;
Drawn from the museums of the world,
Art Institute, the Louvre,
Or other places where fine and
Beautiful things should be–
And now they’re in a language lab
On a wall screen TV.
Paintings and sculpture, photographs
Pass in procession here.
Calligraphy and pottery,
The images so clear.
Art has the power to free the mind,
to replenish the soul–
Even while kids sit at Macs
“Hablando español”
Such unexpected beauty here.
I hope the kids can see.
I hope the share some of the joy
These pictures bring to me.
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JUXTAPOSITION
(Haiku Sequence of Attention)
Masterpieces flash
On the wide screen TV.
Intent kids don’t see.
With their headphones on,
They hear Spanish in the lab
And they answer back.
Each has one small screen,
Access to the Internet;
Alone together.
Silently they change:
Paintings, sculptures, photographs,
Fine art of the world.
Still the children work–
Or they talk, oblivious.
Images move on.
This is how it is–
There is beauty close at hand;
Some will never see.
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Yesterday was a slightly unusual day, since classes were all 10 minutes long to accommodate the assembly and summer book discussion groups. But I did meet a few more World Language Teachers (I think I’ve met everyone now) and enjoyed listening in on one of the groups. Here are some pics from the first day of school in the lab. Becky López has already reserved the instructional area for this Friday afternoon and Annette Steinbarth for Thursday, so stay tuned for some shots of the World Language Lab in action. And I’m happy to report that several teachers have already approached me about getting together for one-on-one training. Fantabulous.
