<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://matsl.wetpaint.com/xsl/rss2html.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://matsl.wetpaint.com/scripts/wpcss/wiki/matsl/skin/peach/rss" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>MATSL - Recently Updated Pages</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/pageSearch/updated</link><description>Recently Updated Pages on http://matsl.wetpaint.com</description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>info@wetpaint.com</webMaster><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:56:58 CDT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:56:58 CDT</lastBuildDate><generator>wetpaint.com</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>MATSL</title><url>http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/dJtQePuX2A0X2Njy3dsEjA23237</url><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com</link><description>The Bennington College MATSL students wiki for collaboration during their 3 week 2007 residency and beyond.</description></image><item><title>Merrie McIvor</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Merrie+McIvor</link><author>merriemcivor</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Merrie+McIvor</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:56:58 CDT</pubDate><description> 			   Hi,&lt;br&gt;This is a picture of me with Argentine singer/song-writer Justo Lamas, his wife, Eva, and their daughter, Camila. Justo has given two concerts at our high school in Chelmsford, MA., and will return April 30, 2008 for another exciting time. His concerts are highly charged and interactive, since the students learn his songs prior to the concert. Learn more about Justo at his website: &lt;b&gt;www.justolamas.com&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Prior to teaching Spanish in Massachusetts, I taught Creative Writing, Spanish and Russian at West Valley High School in Spokane, Washington for 16 years. Even before that I taught Spanish in Bellevue, Washington and English in La Crescenta, California. Teaching languages has to be one of the best career choices available.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One of the great things about teaching languages is that I get to travel with students to far-off places.April 2007 I traveled with nine students from Chelmsford High to Managua, Nicaragua. We had a great experience of language immersion and service learning. That was my second trip to Nicaragua with students. I have also had the privilege of traveling to Russia, England, France, Finland, Panama, Mexico, Spain and Portugal. My most recent trip with students was to Burgos, Spain this past February.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Speaking of Spain, seven years ago I had the wonderful experience of being a Fulbright Exchange teacher in a Spanish public high school in Badajoz, Spain. I lived with a Spanish family and was a part of the community for ten months. I highly recommend the Fulbright experience to all my teacher friends. It is phenomenal!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the personal side, I have been married for 38 years to Rev. Dr. D. William McIvor, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Sudbury, MA. Our children, Kristen Louise (32 in June) and David Wallace (30) bring us joy every day. Kristen is working on her doctorate in urban ecology at the University of Washington in Seattle and David is working on his doctorate in Political Science at Duke University. Kristen celebrated 6 years recently with her partner, Don Andre, and David has been with Hollie Johnson for 9 years. Currently, Bill and I adopted a cat last October and named him Barnabas, the &amp;quot;encourager.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#bf7878&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Checking In: Life on the Outside!!</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Checking+In%3A+Life+on+the+Outside%21%21</link><author>autumnbower</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Checking+In%3A+Life+on+the+Outside%21%21</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:50:56 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;b&gt;Autumn&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#418c50&quot;&gt;What a busy summer. Just getting ready for school to start on Wednesday. We made it to Disney and back with no problems. Loved it. Today, my family helped me clean my new classroom to get it ready for students. Melissa, I would love to see your t-shirt design. I hope everyone enjoys this last long weekend of summer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hi Gang,&lt;br&gt;School for me starts next Wed., Sept. 5. Had a great trip out West to Seattle earlier this month. We rented a cottage on Puget Sound and spent four glorious days with our kids and their partners. The rest of the two weeks we visited family and friends, asked ourselves why we ever left the Pacific Northwest and how we could possibly return. (Seriously, we love New England, but Seattle is our home.) At school, we are getting ready to welcome our 14 visitors from Burgos, Spain. We will go there in February. Any of you who want more info/advice on taking kids abroad, let me know. This will be my 11th trip in a variety of formats. It is the BEST thing you can do for kids to make the language and culture come alive. Chao, amigos. MERRIE, la vieja&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;PS Here is a video on YouTube by Justo Lamas. He still has concert dates open (but not many), if you are interested in hosting a concert at your school. Some of the footage in the video is from our concerts at Chelmsford. Too cool.&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNVrbMeWD00&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;Christine&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;Sunday morning I am heading out to San Francisco to visit with my sister, who is 9 months pregnant! My husband will only be joining me out there on Monday. We are going to spend a couple of days exploring the vineyards of the Russian River Valley (mmm...) while my sister finishes her last days of work. We are looking forward to playing with our soon-to-be two year old goddaughter all week long! And who knows, maybe we will be there when the little one arrives!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;Deb&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;AHAAAA! I finally made the top contributors page! Notice who is mysteriously missing???? Maybe because he&amp;#39;s in London...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;Hello Deb,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;Sounds like you had quite the move! Did your cat get any of the Prozac? We had to drug my husband&amp;#39;s cat when he moved here from Canada. The drug worked like a charm. She caused no problems at the border. I hope you are doing well and school, too! -Christine&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;Melissa&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;Incredibly I haven&amp;#39;t felt even a tinge of Wiki withdrawal since getting home...I have been keeping myself busy visiting my family and friends. Last weekend I went on a camping and rafting adventure with two of my best childhood friends which was incredibly fun...I even have a souvenir--SUNBURN! I totally forgot what the sun felt like after spending three weeks in classrooms. Autumn, I managed to make us some fun T-shirts following your advice, thanks!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;Tomorrow morning I leave for a roadtrip with my boyfriend. He is not a teacher and can you believe that he has not actually had a vacation in years? Thank goodness for summers off! Anyhow, we&amp;#39;ll be stopping in DC, then heading to Manteo, NC, and then making our way over to Chicago after visiting his brother in Virginia. After that, I get to start really thinking about school and Action Research designs and all of that fun stuff. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#34736b&quot;&gt;I hope that you all enjoy the rest of the summer. Have fun!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#406b65&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#406b65&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#406b65&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;DEB&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;Well, today is moving day. All of my belongings were packed in the moving van on Wednesday and are headed south. My husband, two dogs, and cat are going to cram ourselves in the Subaru in less than an hour and point the nose toward Wilmington. He drives like he flies--no layovers...Can you say Prozac? They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said NO, NO, NO! `~) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Querida Deb, te deseo suerte con tu mudansa y espero que todo llegue intacto especialmente tu estado mental. Cuidate besos y abrazos,&lt;br&gt;Mari.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My matslly things&amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;..&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;By Pam Anderson, in the wee hours of the morning of July 28, while reflecting on 3 incredible weeks at Bennington. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;WebQuests and wikis,&lt;br&gt;blogging and linking&lt;br&gt;IMs, podcasting,&lt;br&gt;I&amp;#39;m so tired of thinking.&lt;br&gt;Passwords, and logins&lt;br&gt;Citation Machine&lt;br&gt;These are a few of my matslly things. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Data bases and searches&lt;br&gt;On Eric and Jstor&lt;br&gt;I don&amp;#39;t think that my brain&lt;br&gt;Can take very much more.&lt;br&gt;Field notes and first cuts,&lt;br&gt;What clues will they bring?&lt;br&gt;These are a few of my matslly things.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Explanation,&lt;br&gt;Interpretation&lt;br&gt;And Perspective, too&lt;br&gt;Just think what self-knowledge can do for you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Application and empathy&lt;br&gt;Essential questions&lt;br&gt;Understandings that endure&lt;br&gt;I must learn that lesson.&lt;br&gt;Design it all backwards&lt;br&gt;What wisdom it brings&lt;br&gt;These are a few of my matslly things.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Amalia and Shumway&lt;br&gt;Morel and Alberdi&lt;br&gt;Project Comprehension&lt;br&gt;I don&amp;#39;t think I&amp;#39;m ready.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Borjes, and Dahlmann&lt;br&gt;These names have a ring.&lt;br&gt;They&amp;#39;re now a part of my matslly things.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Martin Fierro&lt;br&gt;Jon and Peter&lt;br&gt;Deb, Lisa, too.&lt;br&gt;Without Carol and Nancy&lt;br&gt;Oh, what would we do?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Isabel and Noelle&lt;br&gt;And &amp;quot;Le risistance&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;What broke our hearts?&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Au revoir les infants.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;Desaparecidos&lt;br&gt;Of sad things we sing&lt;br&gt;Yet these, too, are part of our matslly things.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&amp;#39;ll miss all my new friends&lt;br&gt;The laughs and great chow&lt;br&gt;We&amp;#39;ll chat by moodle&lt;br&gt;When I figure out how.&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s time to go now&lt;br&gt;What more can we say?&lt;br&gt;So let&amp;#39;s wind this all up&lt;br&gt;With a great big loud CHE&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#166f8c&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guille&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hola, Y&amp;#39;all!!!&lt;br&gt;Hope life is treating you all well. I&amp;#39;ve been having a great time myself. Went blueberry picking yesterday, saw a couple of movies (Transformers was pretty good, as was the new Die Hard movie......seriously, it really was good). &lt;br&gt;I&amp;#39;ve been doing a bunch of carving..... I finished that spoon from the wood that I found outside VAPA, and I have almost finished my own version of Xul Solar&amp;#39;s &lt;i&gt;Casi Plantas&lt;/i&gt; [Almost Plants] (Original picture here: &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.xulsolar.org.ar/obras/40-11.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.xulsolar.org.ar/obras/40-11.htm&lt;/a&gt;). I think it&amp;#39;s going to be called &amp;quot;Casi...&amp;quot;. It&amp;#39;s made from olive wood, which is one of hte most beautiful woods in the world....in my humble opinion. Anyhow, it needs some polishing, but here&amp;#39;s a glimpse of how it&amp;#39;s going so far. &lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Guille,&lt;br&gt;Loved what you did with the olive wood. Very nice. The resemblance to Casi Plantas is eerily &amp;quot;right on.&amp;quot; Merrie&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Venga! Gille eres fenomenal mira que bien te esta quedando la casi cuchara. Te felicito porque tienes mucho talento, espero que algun dia me hagas el honor de crear algo para mi. Saludos a Emilia y no te pierdas y escibeme cuando tengas tiempo. Abrasos y besos,&lt;br&gt;Mari.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wow! Guille, the Casi Plantas is incredible!!!! Beautiful work! Please share when done! -Christine&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#157e8a&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Lisa B.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Lisa B. is writing to you today from &amp;quot;art camp&amp;quot;, the &amp;quot;Holbein VT Art Event&amp;quot;, in north Burlington, VT (Colchester, VT). Dozens of professional artists from all over the country teaching art workshops throughout the week. I made my first real oil painting a few days ago (I&amp;#39;m pretty much a water-media girl with a bit of oil pastel and mixed media thrown in, but no oil experience except w-a-y back in undergrad art school). I&amp;#39;m having lots of fun and it is relaxing not to not be the &amp;quot;sage on the stage&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;queen of the screen&amp;quot;, etc. Today (Fri. 8/3) did a dry pastel class and a watercolor class. One more workshop, tomorrow morning in watercolor figures. Here&amp;#39;s a few of my partially finished works (all are just 3 hour exercises).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;The Shangri-La Motel, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Still Life w/ Pears, 8x10, acrylic&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;New Smyrna Beach FL &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;gouache (opaque watercolor)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;18x24&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Garden, Watercolor, 10x12 Track-side, FL, oil pastel, 18x24&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lisa,&lt;br&gt;The artwork is great. Here&amp;#39;s a suggestion....come back to Bennington next summer and do an art workshop with us. It would be so fun, creative and matslly. Think about it. (Carol?) Merrie&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lisa,&lt;br&gt;I love your artwork I think is Chevere.(is more than great) Take care and continue making great artwork. hugs,&lt;br&gt;Marilyn.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hello Lisa,&lt;br&gt;It looks like you had a fabulous time at Art Camp!!! I agree with Merrie. Could you teach an art workshop with us next year? -Christine&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Test page action research</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Test+page+action+research</link><author>prjones2</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Test+page+action+research</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:32:34 CDT</pubDate><description>There is no abstract available for this page revision.&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Marilyn Hidalgo</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Marilyn+Hidalgo</link><author>tresfrias</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Marilyn+Hidalgo</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:28:37 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;h2&gt;   &lt;i&gt;My name is Marilyn and I m from the Dominican Republic.Teaching is my passion, but my family is my life.I love to spend time with my family and friends. I have three children: Gabriela is 15 years old, Adriana is 13 and Alex is 11. They are very smart, well behave and they make me very proud. My husband is my best friend the love of my life and most of all, he is a great dad. I teach Spanish to 7th and 8th graders in the Buffalo Public Schools. I m working in the MATSL program at Bennignton College.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#cf8080&quot;&gt;You&amp;#39;re a busy woman and here you are adding yet another BIG thing to your life. I commend you :-) Lisa B.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/ojala/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/ojala/index.html&lt;/a&gt; Espero que esta pagina sea util. 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Autumn &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/&lt;/a&gt; This site has free foreign language clip art for educational purposes. Especially good for adjectives. Lisa M. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.west-windsor-plainsboro.k12.nj.us/grover/grover_worldlang2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.west-windsor-plainsboro.k12.nj.us/grover/grover_worldlang2.html&lt;/a&gt; Another really useful link chock-full of tons of sites for French. Links to many, many resources from language to culture to evaluation. Choose from French, Spanish, German and Chinese. Lisa M.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html&lt;/a&gt; I had forgotten about this fantastic website called Tennessee Bob with a HUGE amount of resources about everything under the sun. He&amp;#39;s (Bob) got quite a story, check it out. Lisa M.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.lexilogos.com/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.lexilogos.com/index.htm&lt;/a&gt; Fabulous online French dictionary source. I learned about this site last summer from Noelle. Amanda&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;Thank you, Amanda, for posting this url. I added it to my cybrary. -Christine&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taVe2WfCx4I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taVe2WfCx4I&lt;/a&gt; Really cool youtube clip of the TGV breaking the world record for speed (574.8 km/hour)... my students loved this! Lisa M.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.langlink.net/langlink/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.langlink.net/langlink/&lt;/a&gt; Great link containing most major languages. Helpful in explaining the evolution of languages. Check it out! Lisa M. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/affichescomitehistoire.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/affichescomitehistoire.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;  WW2 information from the French government. Autumn&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.parisdailyphoto.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;www.parisdailyphoto.com&quot;&gt;www.parisdailyphoto.com&lt;/a&gt; Great resource for pictures of authentic daily life in France. Updated daily. (may contain some mature material appropriate for high school but up to you to decide for middle school...) Lisa M.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;Fabulous blog Lisa! It is as if I were back in Paris where I long to be again. I will most definitely use this highly cultural blog with my middle schoolers next year. Amanda&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#bf0ef0&quot;&gt;Loved it!! Although it&amp;#39;s written in English, I think it would be extremely productive in my classes. I plan on using it with my lower level classes to expose them to many aspects of the French Culture, and show them the different facets of life in Paris. Merci. Nadia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Garamond&quot;&gt;The photos are a great tool to teach the culture of La vie quotidienne en Paris. It is a good way for them to &amp;#39;cyber&amp;#39; travel. Autumn&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot; face=&quot;Garamond&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot; face=&quot;Garamond&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot; face=&quot;Garamond&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ffa500&quot;&gt;I spent at least 15 minutes exploring this site, its links and comments. The writer of this page, not only takes beautiful photos, but also provided great cultural information. Christine&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.about.com/french&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.about.com/french&lt;/a&gt; Daily blog with many useful activities/information. Lisa M.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ffa500&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.ambafrance-us.org/fr/jeunes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.ambafrance-us.org/fr/jeunes/&lt;/a&gt; Direct link to the French Embassy Site for kids. Many other interesting topics to explore within the Embassy Site as well. Amanda&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.bonjourdefrance.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/&lt;/a&gt; Good ressource of reading comprehension samples, grammar explanations and activities, thematic vocabulary lessons, and games. Nadia&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot;&gt;The graphics are bright and engaging. I like the fact that the words are only in French with a picture and not an English word. Autumn&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;The amount of sound files available is incredible! This is a great site to give to students who are always looking for more to do! Christine&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;font face=&quot;Verdana&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.lesclesjunior.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.lesclesjunior.com/&lt;/a&gt; is a site based on the popular news magazine &lt;u&gt;Les Cl&amp;eacute;s de l&amp;rsquo;Actualit&amp;eacute; Junior&lt;/u&gt;. It has articles that are of manageable length, are challenging, and interesting. Nadia&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;I really liked the condensed form in which this site presents the news... easy to adapt and use for a variety of ages. Lisa M.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ffa500&quot;&gt;Love it! My favorite part of this site is the section titled &amp;quot;R&amp;eacute;cr&amp;eacute;-info Chez les dingos&amp;quot;. I love talking about crazy world events with my students in French. They learn fun vocabulary and are always focused on listening. There are also some great articles and lessons for our classes. I am going to encourage my students to check this site out weekly. Merci! Christine&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www2.adeater.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www2.adeater.com/&lt;/a&gt; This site includes countless of commericals from various Francophone countries. These commercial could be used for oral compehension or as a cultural component. Christine &lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;Update: This site is currently under construction. Hopefully, it will be back up soon. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;I love this site! Merci beaucoup Christine! I cannot wait to use this with my 8th graders next year. Amanda&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.leclubfrancais.co.uk/babelzone/frenchpages/gamezonefrench.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.leclubfrancais.co.uk/babelzone/frenchpages/gamezonefrench.htm&lt;/a&gt; Stories with sound! Games! All sorts of vocabulary and themes (family, days of the week, the house, Boucles d&amp;#39;or est les trois ours...). Christine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.cyberpresse.ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.cyberpresse.ca&lt;/a&gt; Linda: is the Qu&amp;eacute;bec news on the web, you will find several French Canadian newspapers from Montr&amp;eacute;al to Qu&amp;eacute;bec to C&amp;ocirc;te Nord.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://fr.canoe.ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://fr.canoe.ca/&lt;/a&gt; Linda: Votre portail d&amp;#39;information sur l&amp;#39;actualit&amp;eacute;, la culture, le showbiz, les sports, la sant&amp;eacute;, les technologies, la finance, les voyages,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www2.canoe.com/infos/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www2.canoe.com/infos/&lt;/a&gt; Linda: this one is a little different but as good.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#c723d9&quot;&gt;Great websites to use with higher level classes for reading comorehension of articles to follow the events and politics in France. Nadia&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://conjuguemos.com/home/images/index/index_04.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://conjuguemos.com/home/images/index/index_04.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;  Exercises for students to use to supplement what is being covered in the classroom ( grammar exercises, Linda) There is a page where you can create your own assignments for your students. Autumn&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#6d38a6&quot;&gt;Hey oui Autumn la conjugaison c&amp;#39;est moi. Great site. Linda&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#6d38a6&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.quia.com/shared/french/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.quia.com/shared/french/&lt;/a&gt; A teacher from my school ask me if I was using quia with my students and now I know why, this web sites is incroyables. Have fun Linda&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;I knew of this site from awhile ago, but had forgotten it... great resource for games, but also to create your own things in very little time. Lisa M.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html&lt;/a&gt; Supplement excercises in differents levels, you just need a snowstrom day to go throught this site (may be a couple days). Linda&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;This site may be of use to you. It is a French teacher&amp;#39;s page based on the concept of virtually moving to Paris. There are some links for resources that you could purchase, but at least the ideas are free: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.paris-360.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.paris-360.com/ &lt;/a&gt;This is a funsite for students. Autumn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#2289bd&quot;&gt;This is a good website for students to discover Paris through text and pictures. It shows most of the monuments of Paris, and great pictures of Paris at night and during the day. OHHHH PARIS!!!!! Nadia&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#2289bd&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#2289bd&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;The photos are beautiful and the perspectives are fun! I know I will use this site next year! What a find! Merci. Christine&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/subjects/french.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/subjects/french.asp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;font color=&quot;#ffa500&quot;&gt;The French page on National Qualifications website provides a variety of material that can be used in different levels. Nadia&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;  &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.additionalneeds.net/Online_Learning/french.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.additionalneeds.net/Online_Learning/french.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;font color=&quot;#ffa500&quot;&gt;Directory of French websites on French Topics that are organized by themes and levels. Nadia&lt;/font&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;  &lt;font color=&quot;#ffa500&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/&lt;/a&gt; Useful website news in many languages. Marilyn.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;font color=&quot;#ffa500&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>News references</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references</link><author>tresfrias</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:00:31 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.elpais.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.elpais.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.elmundo.es/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.elmundo.es/&lt;/a&gt; come check out some spanish news - chris fronhofer&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ffa500&quot;&gt;I am a news junkie in any language, so thanks for these links. Great source for authentic texts, too. Merrie&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.bolpress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.bolpress.com/&lt;/a&gt; - Advance your news research by visiting this bolivian press site dealing with politics, society, and a variety of opinion articles all that can be characterized as analytical and interpretative. An excellent site if researching contemporary politics. - chris fronhofer&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.alianzanews.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Improve your Spanish.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot; title=&quot;www.alianzanews.com&quot;&gt;www.alianzanews.com&lt;/a&gt;-It is one of the best Spanish language newspapers in California. You can read education, cultural articles and sports.-Veronica Meza-&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.laoferta.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.laoferta.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.laoferta.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.laoferta.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; It is a bilingual newspaper with national and local news from San Jose, California. It can be an option for students to read Spanish aloud and discuss Latinos news.-Veronica Meza-&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot;&gt;I really like this site - very accessible to students of any level due to it being bilingual. Laura&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/2002/4/15/escenarios/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; In this link, you can find fresh news from El Salvador. Spanish language students must be in touch with different cultures. In this case, they can search closely El Salvador-Veronica Meza-&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;I agree Vero that it in order to amplify your perspective it is essential to read the news from different to countries. It seems like this site is set up like many other typical on line sites which makes it easy to navigate. - Chris Fronhofer &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;excelsior.com.mx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; In this link, students and teachers can reach mexican news daily. It is a newspaper located in Mexico City-Veronica Meza-&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/News+references&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot; title=&quot;www.msu.edu/~sandinkr/tprsarticles.htm&quot;&gt;www.msu.edu/~sandinkr/tprsarticles.htm&lt;/a&gt; Susan Gross has a wealth of TPR-S related articles on her site. Learning Spanish with stories by Kristy Placido. Learn more about the role of grammar in...-Veronica Meza-&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.onlinenewspapers.com/spain.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/spain.htm&lt;/a&gt; This website has a list of websites with many of the newspapers in Spain. I couldn&amp;#39;t just pick one because there are many good newspapers, but I think that everyone can pick a newspaper that they would prefer to teach from.--Shakita&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/&lt;/a&gt; This website gives you daily news in many languages. Marilyn&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>MATSL WIki</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/MATSL+WIki</link><author>srawhiney</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/MATSL+WIki</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:43:39 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Help Deb at her new job! (8/5/07)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please share with me your tried and true first days activities. I don&amp;#39;t know know any of my new students...&lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Tried+and+True+First+Days+of+School+Activities&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot; title=&quot;Tried and True First Days of School Activities&quot;&gt;Tried and True First Days of School Activities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Checking In.....(8/3/07)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;I created a page on the WIKIfor us to drop our Summer outside of MATSL news and messages. It&amp;#39;s called &lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Checking+In%3A+Life+on+the+Outside%21%21&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;Checking In: Life on the Outside&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy. &lt;br&gt;Guille&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;Are You Experiencing post-MATSL Letdown? 8-1-07&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Or are you in post-MATSL ephoria?What are you up to? Are you all Moodling like crazy? If you drop in here make sure to add a check-in, maybe even make a new page for check-ins? &lt;br&gt;Lisa B. &lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;(PS-Lisa&amp;#39;s art photos now posted under Guille&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Checking In&amp;quot; page, see above).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;Speaking of Blogs...7-25-07&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#333333&quot;&gt;Why not blog this week about the big question you&amp;#39;ll be answering this Sat. &amp;quot;what do you understand and how did you come to that understanding&amp;quot;. Many of you have a great resource in your blog b/c you&amp;#39;ve been talking about your journey all along, others of you have just touched upon the topic and will need to do this thinking now. Carol made a big point yesterday about wanting you to &amp;quot;go meta&amp;quot; in your Sat. talk about this question. What does that mean to you? Check out this site for a short definition. Lisa B. &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://education.calumet.purdue.edu/vockell/EdPsyBook/Edpsy7/edpsy7_meta.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/vockell/EdPsyBook/Edpsy7/edpsy7_meta.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;Amanda&amp;#39;s Great Tech for Teachers Resource (from her Blog) 7-25-07&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.education-world.com/a_tech/archives/technology.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/archives/technology.shtml&lt;/a&gt; This site, education-world.com has tons of good resources for educators but this particular page is all about technology. Lisa B.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lisa M.&amp;#39;s Hubby Checks In - 7-25-07&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lisa&amp;#39;s hubby sent her this link: &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.techcrunch.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.techcrunch.com/&lt;/a&gt; It&amp;#39;s a techblog on new and upcoming tech offerings, hints, freeware, etc. Fun to just click around the site and see what they&amp;#39;re talking about.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;YouTube Debate Tonight! 7-23-07&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;Are you following the YouTube debate between presidential candidates that will take place based on video questions submitted by YouTubers? Check out this &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003801634_debate23.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6912406.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; then go to CNN and check it out. There are people &amp;quot;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://blogher.org/node/22747&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;live blogging&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; the event and Edwards is having a live &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/edwards-plans-post-debate-chat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;webcast&amp;quot; chat&lt;/a&gt; after the CNN event so people can ask him questions directly (this I&amp;#39;ve got to see). This is the future folks, don&amp;#39;t snooze through it ;-) Lisa B.&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sizing and Croping Online Tech Tool: 7-17-07&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Easy to use, free, online picture cropping and resizing - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.resize2mail.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.resize2mail.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lisa B.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;Post on the Wiki about: Week 2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;How did Babel Fish do? Talk about it in the wiki. Are online translators a problem or a benefit for your language students? Do they help you or hinder you as the teacher? Could you create a class lesson using an online translator? Lisa B.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;La Fiesta!&lt;font color=&quot;#d48c8c&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt; WANT TO SEE &lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/LA+FIESTA&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;MORE FOTOS&lt;/a&gt;?c Also, new photos on the Photos at the Lake page.&lt;br&gt;Updated by merrie July 27.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot; size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;Se ruega poblar responsablemente...&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;melissa&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;Poblar la WIKI es dominar la WIKI&lt;/font&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;-Melissa&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;(Publicado por Guille)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ffa500&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is the MATSL collaborative wiki. This space is used to share questions, comments, resources and to work in groups during the three week MATSL summer residency 2007, and beyond. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Our class page: &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://lisabrux.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://lisabrux.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can find class assingments there. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tried and True First Days of School Activities</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Tried+and+True+First+Days+of+School+Activities</link><author>srawhiney</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Tried+and+True+First+Days+of+School+Activities</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:37:51 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font color=&quot;#f502f1&quot;&gt;DEB&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hello everyone! Y&amp;#39;all know I&amp;#39;m starting at a new school (this week--Dios mio!!). You are such a talented group of professionals, and I know you all have some wonderful things you do on the first days of school. It&amp;#39;s my turn to be your student: could you share some of your great ideas? I&amp;#39;m teaching a hodge podge of levels: 2, 4 honors, and (of course!) my 5 Honors Film course. Thanks to Merrie for already giving me some fantastic ideas! Merci/Gracias!&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Blog, Websites, and IM names</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Blog%2C+Websites%2C+and+IM+names</link><author>lisabrux2</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Blog%2C+Websites%2C+and+IM+names</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:44:38 CDT</pubDate><description> 				&lt;b&gt;MATSL websites&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Chris - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://cfronhofer.googlepages.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://cfronhofer.googlepages.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;Lisa M. - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://lisamaupin.googlepages.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://lisamaupin.googlepages.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nadia - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://nnadia27.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://nnadia27.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Marilyn - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://hidalgo73.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://hidalgo73.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Merrie - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://merriemcivor.googlepages.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://merriemcivor.googlepages.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://merriem.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Christine - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://mmegoulet.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://mmegoulet.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Shakita - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://shakitaj.googlepages.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://shakitaj.googlepages.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Amanda - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://amandajan.googlepages.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://amandajan.googlepages.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Laura - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://lauralpaternoster.google.pages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://lauralpaternoster.google.pages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Melissa - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://pytlakmelissa.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://pytlakmelissa.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Guille - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://wworsnopp.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://wworsnopp.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Veronica - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://meza.veronica03.googlepages.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://meza.veronica03.googlepages.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Pam - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://panderso09.googlepages.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://panderso09.googlepages.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Linda - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://lindamorneau.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://lindamorneau.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Autumn - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://autumnbower.googlepages.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://autumnbower.googlepages.com/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://autumnbower.googlepages.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blogs&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Lisa B.&amp;#39;s Artblog - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://artwommin.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://artwommin.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Marilyn - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://mhidalgo.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://mhidalgo.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Christine - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://christinematsl.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://christinematsl.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Veronica - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://veronicameza.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://veronicameza.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lisa M. - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://madamemaupin.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://madamemaupin.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Shakita - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://shakitaj.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://shakitaj.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nadia - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://mmederoy.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://mmederoy.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Pam - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://pam-matsl.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://pam-matsl.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Chris - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://cfronhofer.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://cfronhofer.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Melissa - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://matslmelissapytlak.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://matslmelissapytlak.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Amanda - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://amandamatsl.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://amandamatsl.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Amanda&amp;#39;s Food Blog - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://champagneandcornichons.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://champagneandcornichons.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Guille - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.guilleworsnopp.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.guilleworsnopp.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Merrie - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://merriem.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://merriem.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://dmaria-matsl.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Linda - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://mmemorneau.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://mmemorneau.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Autumn - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://automnerbm.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://automnerbm.blogspot.com/&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://automnerbm.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Laura - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://laurapaternoster.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://laurapaternoster.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;IM &amp;quot;handles&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; 					 			  			 				 				Here are the IM handles, or buddy names, for your class:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lisa B. - lisabrux&lt;br&gt;Melissa - mpyts&lt;br&gt;Veronica - vrncmz&lt;br&gt;Marilyn - tresfrias&lt;br&gt;Guille - ecbarrell&lt;br&gt;Shakita - shakdawg02&lt;br&gt;Merrie - bmcivor&lt;br&gt;Chris - chrisfronhofer&lt;br&gt;Lisa M. - lisamaupin7&lt;br&gt;Nadia - nnnadia27&lt;br&gt;Laura - laurapaternoster&lt;br&gt;Pam - panderso09&lt;br&gt;Christine - ytremedford&lt;br&gt;Autumn - autumnjmst&lt;br&gt;Amanda - amandajanes08&lt;br&gt;Linda - lindamtupperlake&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>WebQuests by Spanish MATSL Students</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/WebQuests+by+Spanish+MATSL+Students</link><author>VrncMz@aol.com</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/WebQuests+by+Spanish+MATSL+Students</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:45:10 CDT</pubDate><description> 				&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://merpam.googlepages.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://merpam.googlepages.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Merrie and Pam&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It is more or less complete now. Feel free to offer any advice...I am not Webquest sensitive - &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://argentinawebquest.googlepages.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://argentinawebquest.googlepages.com/&lt;/a&gt; - Chris&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;Chris, it is great how you incorporated the course material in your webquest. It is colorful, clear, specific and interesting. It is a great work!-&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;Veronica Meza-&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#c421c2&quot;&gt;Chris, very cool webquest. How advanced are your students? It looks like your take the challenge of challenging your students seriously with the level of the readings in the webquest and level of conceptual understandings and thought that you require. Very ambitious approach, I admire that. Have you always taught this way or did MATSL actually mold you into this type of teacher?-Melissa&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Great job incorporating class materials into your webquest. I found a few grammatical errors which I sent to you in your email. Laura&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A webquest on immigration&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://vemala1.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://vemala1.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(En Ingl&amp;eacute;s)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://vemala2.googlepages.com/home&lt;br&gt;(In Spanish)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Laura, Vero, y Marilyn&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#884aa1&quot;&gt;Great job taking a controversial issue and teaching students how to deal with it maturely. Persuading and arguing appropriately are great life skills to have. I will refer to this webquest during the school year.--Melissa&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#884aa1&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;Wow! Your Webquest is extremely powerful. The importance of becoming an activist comes through in just reading your webquest, before reading the articles and completing the tasks. I love the structure the layout and organization as well. Here are a few minor, minor things. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;ol&gt;  &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;  &lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;separate andcultures in first paragraph&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;  &lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;Excellent introduction&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;  &lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;I love the variety of articles that they have to read. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;  &lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;Would &amp;ldquo;on a daily basis&amp;rdquo; be better than in daily basis in the conclusion. - Chris &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;La versi&amp;oacute;n en Espanol (est&amp;aacute; terminada) &lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://vemala2.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://vemala2.googlepages.com/home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;Laura, Veronica y Marylin.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;Vamos a Madrid! &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://pytlakmelissa.googlepages.com/webquest%C2%A1vamosamadrid%21&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://pytlakmelissa.googlepages.com/webquest&amp;iexcl;vamosamadrid!&lt;/a&gt; It&amp;#39;s not quite done yet, but hopefully it will be by Thursday...Melissa&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot; face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;You have done a great job implementing a webquest and blog into your Living in Madrid Virtually project - this is definitely a project I would like to try and can&amp;#39;t wait to hear how it goes!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;Laura&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;Very nice WebQuest!  It is filled with such great ideas!  The blog is fabulous!  Congratulation!  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;Guille: &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://wworsnopp.googlepages.com/queesunsimbolo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;http://wworsnopp.googlepages.com/queesunsimbolo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot; face=&quot;Garamond&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Action Research-Chris, Laura and Veronica</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Action+Research-Chris%2C+Laura+and+Veronica</link><author>VrncMz@aol.com</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Action+Research-Chris%2C+Laura+and+Veronica</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:20:01 CDT</pubDate><description>Goals: What are the relationships between teacher responses and questions and student thinking? Do teacher responses and questioning lead to deeper student thinking?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Research Question: What happens when teachers respond to student contributions?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Disciplined Statement:&lt;br&gt;There is a connection between teacher silences and/or revoicing and the student process of engaging in more interpretive thinking. At times these revoicings are a tool to signal to students that they should continue an idea or have reached a more interpretive and significant thought.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Data:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;T: &amp;ldquo;Don Segundo Sombra, what does it mean?&amp;rdquo; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After this question, that appears to seek interpretation, three students respond. After each response the professor either says, &amp;ldquo;yes&amp;rdquo; or nods his head. Each response is directly related to the question and appears as such:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;T: Don Segundo Sombra, what does it mean?&amp;rdquo; &lt;br&gt;S1: The night is coming. (The professor nodded his head and said &amp;ldquo;yes&amp;rdquo;). &lt;br&gt;S2: It has arrived, or the time has come. (The professor repeated again &amp;ldquo;Yes, yes&amp;rdquo; while he continued to nod his head). &lt;br&gt;S3: It&amp;rsquo;s the end of the Gaucho. &lt;br&gt;T: Yes, the Gaucho that is going to continue, it is to say the spirit of the Gaucho. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;P: What does Don Leandro represent as far as Argentina?&lt;br&gt;Many students contribute several answers. For every answer the professor responds similarly by saying yes and repeating the word that the student said. Some contributions included city, power, civilization and education. The professor then asked, &amp;ldquo;What political party do these characteristics coincide with?&amp;rdquo; Several students&amp;rsquo; responded &amp;ldquo;unitarios&amp;rdquo;. The professor said yes and then right away asked how it reflected the country. The following dialogue appeared:&lt;br&gt;S1: The end of the Gauchos.&lt;br&gt;P: Yes&lt;br&gt;S5: The combination of the two ways of life.&lt;br&gt;P: Yes the union.&lt;br&gt;S3: The progression.&lt;br&gt;P: Yes the progression. As a country we should progress appears as the moral. It is the hour to educate us. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a graduate classroom language learning activity, when teacher asked conceptual questions then repeated a student&amp;rsquo;s initial answers or were silent after a student&amp;rsquo;s initial answers, students offered additional simple answers (meaning answers that were limited or literal), as well as offering more analytical answers (where the answer was based on the text) and interpretive answers (where students created their own meaning based on their opinion about the meaning of the text). After students offered a more interpretive and contextually meaningful answer (though this was sometimes a short answer), teacher responded with positive feedback, summarizing or revoicing the student&amp;rsquo;s answer, and sometimes adding to the interpretive answer, then moving on to a new conceptual question.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Field note:&lt;br&gt;The professor took out the packet of the last chapters of the book Don Segundo Sombra and repeated the name and asked a question, &amp;ldquo;Don Segundo Sombra, what does it mean?&amp;rdquo; S1 said &amp;ldquo;The night is coming&amp;rdquo;. The professor nodded his head and said &amp;ldquo;yes&amp;rdquo;. He kept nodding his head in silence. S2 then said, &amp;ldquo;it has arrived, or the time has come&amp;rdquo;. The professor repeated again &amp;ldquo;Yes, yes&amp;rdquo; while he continued to nod his head. S3 then said it&amp;rsquo;s the end of the Gaucho. The professor said &amp;ldquo;yes&amp;rdquo; and then repeated &amp;ldquo;the Gaucho that is going to continue, it is to say the spirit of the Gaucho&amp;rdquo;. S4 then said it &amp;ldquo;is is like Fierro was the last Gaucho.&amp;rdquo; The professor said &amp;ldquo;yes&amp;rdquo; and nodded his head for a period of time. S4 then added &amp;ldquo;he is the last Gaucho, but more educated.&amp;rdquo; The professor said &amp;ldquo;yes&amp;rdquo; and repeated, &amp;ldquo;More educated&amp;rdquo;. Again he repeated &amp;ldquo;yes&amp;rdquo; and then started to provide the class information about the book. He spoke about literature that was coming out during the beginning of the 20th century. He spoke about the national novels that were written and how it represented a cultural movement. He asked the question, &amp;ldquo;What it is called?&amp;rdquo; Some students tried to answer by suggesting reality or magical realism. He said no and then provided the genre, the novel of the land. He presented examples from Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico explaining that they represented the identity of these different countries focusing on the lower class, the farmers and the different landscapes. He returned to Argentina and said this is a gaucho text and asked &amp;ldquo;What is the plot?&amp;rdquo; &lt;br&gt;S2: It is a story of introspection. &lt;br&gt;P: Yes&lt;br&gt;S4: That he is an orphan&lt;br&gt;S5: And he is living with his godfather.&lt;br&gt;P: Yes, who is his godfather?&lt;br&gt;S5: Don Segundo&lt;br&gt;P: Yes, yes. &lt;br&gt;S4: But he finds out that he has a father.&lt;br&gt;P: Yes he is going to live with his father who is. (He pauses to allow students to answer) &lt;br&gt;A few students say Don Leandro. Another student mentions that he meets Raucho and says that they are brothers. The professor says, &amp;ldquo;Yes brothers, or half brothers.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;P: What does Don Leandro represent as far as Argentina?&lt;br&gt;Many students contribute several answers. For every answer the professor responds similarly by saying yes and repeating the word that the student said. Some contributions included city, power, civilization and education. The professor then asked, &amp;ldquo;What political party do these characteristics coincide with?&amp;rdquo; Several students&amp;rsquo; responded &amp;ldquo;unitarios&amp;rdquo;. The professor said yes and then right away asked how it reflected the country. The following dialogue appeared:&lt;br&gt;S1: The end of the Gauchos.&lt;br&gt;P: Yes&lt;br&gt;S5: The combination of the two ways of life.&lt;br&gt;P: Yes the union.&lt;br&gt;S3: The progression.&lt;br&gt;P: Yes the progression. As a country we should progress appears as the moral. It is the hour to educate us. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Photos at the lake</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Photos+at+the+lake</link><author>merriemcivor</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Photos+at+the+lake</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:48:01 CDT</pubDate><description>    				    				   				  &lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Proyecto de comprensión, Marylin, Laura y Verónica</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Proyecto+de+comprensi%C3%B3n%2C+Marylin%2C+Laura+y+Ver%C3%B3nica</link><author>VrncMz@aol.com</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Proyecto+de+comprensi%C3%B3n%2C+Marylin%2C+Laura+y+Ver%C3%B3nica</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:56:56 CDT</pubDate><description> 				&lt;br&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute; existe la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n?&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;                   (La inmigraci&amp;oacute;n existe parad&amp;oacute;jicamente para construir naciones)&lt;br&gt;                                      (pie de foto)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;-Metas&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los estudiantes tendr&amp;aacute;n un entendimiento y crear&amp;aacute;n su propia reflexi&amp;oacute;n del concepto de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n, interpretando las causas y los efectos de inmigrar a otros pa&amp;iacute;ses con base en la lectura previa del webquest, &amp;ldquo;La inmigraci&amp;oacute;n&amp;rdquo;, dise&amp;ntilde;ado especialmente para esta unidad de estudio, la cu&amp;aacute;l es dirigida a estudiantes del octavo grado.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; -Entendimientos perdurables&lt;br&gt;1.Pensar, dialogar y expresar la definici&amp;oacute;n interpretativa de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n, partiendo de un punto de vista personal, ya sea basado en una experiencia vivida o familiar, o partiendo de su propia interpretaci&amp;oacute;n personal basada en los puntos estudiados en la clase.&lt;br&gt;2.Saber distinguir las diferencias entre emigrar/inmigrar. &lt;br&gt;3.Visualizar, enlistar y mencionar algunos de los estereotipos de los inmigrantes.&lt;br&gt;4.Es importante que el estudiante identifique y reconozca su propia herencia cultural porque partiendo de su origen puede quiz&amp;aacute; comparar y ser m&amp;aacute;s emp&amp;aacute;tico con la diversidad cultural que ofrece la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;5.Identificar algunos de los lugares, a d&amp;oacute;nde van los inmigrantes.&lt;br&gt;6.Mencionar y enlistar algunas razones de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n,&lt;br&gt;7.Provocar la sensibilizaci&amp;oacute;n en los estudiantes acerca del fen&amp;oacute;meno de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n. &lt;br&gt;8.Mejorar la expresi&amp;oacute;n oral y escrita, enfatizando el uso del vocabulario, la gram&amp;aacute;tica, la sintaxis y el contenido expuesto en las presentaciones orales, la descripci&amp;oacute;n de si mismo, la entrevista a un inmigrante y la claridad en la reflexi&amp;oacute;n escrita y oral.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-Preguntas esenciales&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1.&amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; es la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n?&lt;br&gt;2.&amp;iquest;Cu&amp;aacute;les son las diferencias entre la e/inmgraci&amp;oacute;n?&lt;br&gt;3.&amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; buscan los inmigrantes?&lt;br&gt;4.&amp;iquest;A d&amp;oacute;nde va la gente que e/inmigra y por qu&amp;eacute;?&lt;br&gt;5.&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo es el choque cultural de los inmigrantes?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-ACTIVIDADES&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Actividad #1-&amp;ldquo;Proyecto de identidad personal&amp;rdquo;-.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;El entendimiento perdurable adquirido en este ejercicio es el #4. (Ver la p&amp;aacute;g. 2).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Prop&amp;oacute;sito: Practicar el vocabulario ya adquirido entre &amp;eacute;stos: Comida, descripci&amp;oacute;n de una casa, la familia, lugares en la ciudad, pasatiempos y deportes partiendo de la propia experiencia personal, y reconociendo que todas las personas son diferentes, iguales e importantes. &lt;br&gt;Contestar en el sal&amp;oacute;n de clase las siguientes preguntas, partiendo de su propia experiencia como ser humano. Los estudiantes en parejas, seguir&amp;aacute;n el siguiente formato, contestando en forma oral a la pregunta, &amp;iquest;qui&amp;eacute;n soy yo? &lt;br&gt;Evaluaci&amp;oacute;n: Al terminar, los estudiantes presentar&amp;aacute;n su propia descripci&amp;oacute;n oral enfrente de la clase. El maestro evaluar&amp;aacute; al estudiante con una r&amp;uacute;brica para ejercicios orales, siguiendo cuatro categor&amp;iacute;as: Uso del vocabulario, uso de la gram&amp;aacute;tica, pronunciaci&amp;oacute;n y motivaci&amp;oacute;n al presentar la descripci&amp;oacute;n personal.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;T&amp;iacute;tulo del ejercicio: &amp;iquest;Qui&amp;eacute;n soy yo?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Soy de&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Lugar, olores de la casa y/o de la ciudad&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;.Me encanta&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Comidas, especialmente de las fiestas especiales, reuniones familiares&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;.Mis actvidades&amp;hellip; &lt;br&gt; . Pasatiempos favoritos&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;.Mi familia y amigos&amp;hellip;&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Personas que son importantes en mi vida.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-Al terminar las presentaciones orales, se realizar&amp;aacute;n comentarios a nivel grupal, enlistando&lt;br&gt;las semejanzas y diferencias entre las diversas presentaciones. Se har&amp;aacute; la lista en el pizarr&amp;oacute;n en una cartulina.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Actividad #2. Trabajo de imaginaci&amp;oacute;n y reflexi&amp;oacute;n personal:&lt;br&gt;Los entendimientos perdurables adquiridos en esta actividad son el #1 y #2. (Ver p&amp;aacute;g. 2 con la lista de entendimientos).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;Quisieras vivir en otro pa&amp;iacute;s? &amp;iquest;D&amp;oacute;nde? y &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute;?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Prop&amp;oacute;sito: Formar una definici&amp;oacute;n interpretativa del concepto de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n y las causas por las cu&amp;aacute;les emigra la gente. Cada estudiante presentar&amp;aacute; enfrente de la clase una narraci&amp;oacute;n escrita de su pa&amp;iacute;s imaginario o real, explicando el d&amp;oacute;nde y el por qu&amp;eacute;. Adem&amp;aacute;s deber&amp;aacute; dibujar, utilizando colores, c&amp;oacute;mo lucir&amp;iacute;a su pa&amp;iacute;s imaginario o real. (Con esta actividad se pretende que el alumno indague a la vez que imagina y se divierte, creando m&amp;aacute;s conciencia de que el proceso de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n puede ser por voluntad, necesidad u obligaci&amp;oacute;n).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Actividad #3&amp;ndash;Web quest,&amp;ldquo;La inmigraci&amp;oacute;n&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;Los entendimientos perdurables adquiridos en esta actividad ser&amp;aacute;n: #1, #3, #5, #6, #7, and #8.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Se requiere que los estudiantes visiten el Web quest dise&amp;ntilde;ado especialmente para esta unidad de trabajo. El Web quest se encuentra en Ingl&amp;eacute;s y en Espa&amp;ntilde;ol en los siguientes sitios cibern&amp;eacute;ticos: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-www. http://vemala1.googlepages.com/home&lt;br&gt;(Web quest en Ingl&amp;eacute;s)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-www. http://vemala2.googlepages.com/home&lt;br&gt;(Web quest en Espa&amp;ntilde;ol)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Informaci&amp;oacute;n&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;El gobierno de los Estados Unidos est&amp;aacute; tratando de llegar a una decisi&amp;oacute;n acerca de la situaci&amp;oacute;n inmigratoria en este pa&amp;iacute;s. Ellos quieren escuchar las opiniones de los ciudadanos americanos.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;El Congreso de los Estados Unidos te ha pedido ser parte del equipo de ciudadanos que ayudar&amp;aacute;n a aconsejarlos acerca de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n. Tu trabajo radicar&amp;aacute; en investigar el tema de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n desde diferentes puntos devista. Usando la informaci&amp;oacute;n, vas a decidir, dependiendo de tu perspectiva, si la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n es buena o mala para los Estados Unidos, hoy en d&amp;iacute;a. Vas a presentar tu decisi&amp;oacute;n, apoyado (a) por los datos encontrados, usando el formato de un Power Point Display al Congreso de los Estados Unidos. Tu Power Point tiene que incluir por lo menos 3 hechos por p&amp;aacute;gina que tu hayas encontrado, y que apoyen la discusi&amp;oacute;n grupal.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Proceso&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. Re&amp;uacute;nete con equipo de ciudadanos al que has sido asignado.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2. Lee las gu&amp;iacute;as dadas para el proceso, referentes a la construcci&amp;oacute;n de un concenso:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/processguides/consensus.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Discute con tu equipo: &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute; es este proyecto importante?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;T&amp;uacute; tambi&amp;eacute;n tienes que persuadir a los miembros de tu equipo que ellos pueden de estar de acuerdo con tu punto de vista. Entonces lee la gu&amp;iacute;a del proceso acerca de los argumentos persuasivos:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/processguides/persuasive.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ahora est&amp;aacute;s listo para leer los roles de los personajes en esta p&amp;aacute;gina.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;.Asignaci&amp;oacute;n de los personajes y sus actividades a realizar:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cada ciudadano en el equipo tendr&amp;aacute; que tomar uno de los siguientes papeles o personajes. Aseg&amp;uacute;rate de leer detenidamente las funciones de cada personaje con el fin de que entiendas, qui&amp;eacute;n eres, y el punto de vista cr&amp;iacute;tico que vas a tomar. Toma notas a la vez que lees los recursos asignados a t&amp;iacute;; en otras palabras, aseg&amp;uacute;rate de captar, &amp;iquest;cu&amp;aacute;l es la idea principal? &amp;iquest;cu&amp;aacute;les son los detalles m&amp;aacute;s importantes? Recuerda de escribir las respuestas a estas preguntas en tus propias palabras. &amp;iquest;Hay alguna informaci&amp;oacute;n que quieras acotar de esta investigaci&amp;oacute;n? Si es as&amp;iacute;,recuerda darle el cr&amp;eacute;dito al autor.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;PERSONAJES O ROLES A ESCOGER:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;#1. Un ciudadano de Arizona&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;La persona responsable de este personaje es ahora un ciudadano de los Estados Unidos del Estado de Arizona. T&amp;uacute;, tus padres y abuelos han vivido todas sus vidas en Arizona.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ve a los siguientes sitios en el Internet para adquirir informaci&amp;oacute;n y comprender tu punto de vista acerca de este tema. T&amp;uacute; tienes que leer toda la informaci&amp;oacute;n de tu personaje para hacer una decisi&amp;oacute;n en el informe.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.actionsiteNodeId=136&amp;amp;languageId=1&amp;amp;contentId=51473&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/againsti.htm&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.minutemanproject.com/newsmanager/templates/mmp.asp?articleid=50&amp;amp;zoneid=11&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.minutemanproject.com/newsmanager/templates/mmp.asp?articleid=53&amp;amp;zoneid=19&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.minutemanproject.com/newsmanager/templates/mmp.asp?articleid=57&amp;amp;zoneid=15&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://publicagenda.org/issues/debate.cfm?issue_type=immigration&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los puntos importantes en los cu&amp;aacute;les te puedes enfocar son: &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute; la gente emigra a los Estados Unidos? &amp;iquest;Cu&amp;aacute;les son los problemas asociados con la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n ilegal? &amp;iquest;Piensas que la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n es buena o mala para Am&amp;eacute;rica en estos tiempos? &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute;? Revisa la gu&amp;iacute;a de informaci&amp;oacute;n para que recuerdes que est&amp;aacute;s haciendo y cu&amp;aacute;l es tu rol/papel en esta informaci&amp;oacute;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;#2. Un nuevo inmigrante mexicano:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;La persona responsable de este personaje es ahora un residente legal, quien naci&amp;oacute; en M&amp;eacute;xico. T&amp;uacute; emigraste a los Estados Unidos con el fin de encontrar un mejor trabajo para ayudar a tu familia y tener una mejor vida.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Visita los siguientes sitios en el Internet para buscar informaci&amp;oacute;n acerca de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n para comprender y ahondar m&amp;aacute;s en tu punto de vista acerca de este tema. T&amp;uacute; tienes que leer todos los recursos que enriquezcan a tu personaje para hacer una decisi&amp;oacute;n en un informe:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.kqed.org/w/mosaic/latino/changingfaces.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/newamericans/mexican_intro.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4076603 &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;- T&amp;uacute; vas a necesitar cerca 7 1/2 minutos para LEER estos reportajes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;http://www.alianzanews.com/ver_nica_meza&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.alianzanews.com/movilizaci_nde_los_inmigrante_por_dream_act&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.laoferta.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=3548&amp;amp;lt&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los puntos en los cuales te debes de enfocar son: &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute; la gente inmigra a los Estados Unidos? &amp;iquest;A d&amp;oacute;nde van los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos? &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; problemas enfrentan los inmigrantes? &amp;iquest;Piensas t&amp;uacute; que la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n es buena o mala para Am&amp;eacute;rica hoy en d&amp;iacute;a? &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute;? Revisa las instrucciones para que recuerdes que est&amp;aacute;s haciendo con esta informaci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;#3. Un reportero de un peri&amp;oacute;dico&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;La persona responsable este papel es un reportero de un peri&amp;oacute;dico que est&amp;aacute; investigando y escribiendo acerca de la situaci&amp;oacute;n de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;Recuerda que en sus trabajos, los reporteros abordan los hechos sin juzgar.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/quiz.html &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-Este es un peque&amp;ntilde;o examen que vas a tomar.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://publicagenda.org/issues/debate.cfm?issue_type=immigration&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.pbs.org/itvs/beyondtheborder/immigration.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010611/&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.kqed.org/w/mosaic/latino/changingfaces.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.laoferta.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=3548&amp;amp;ltemid=38&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los puntos en los cuales te debes de enfocar son: &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute; la gente inmigra a los Estados Unidos? &amp;iquest;A d&amp;oacute;nde van los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos? &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; problemas enfrentan los inmigrantes? &amp;iquest;Piensas t&amp;uacute; que la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n es buena o mala para Am&amp;eacute;rica hoy en d&amp;iacute;a? &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute;? Revisa las instrucciones para que recuerdes que est&amp;aacute;s haciendo con esta informaci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;#4. Un representante del congreso de tu condado.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;La persona tiene que votar en la legislaci&amp;oacute;n de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n. Tienes que examinar los dos lados de esta situaci&amp;oacute;n muy profundamente.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ve a los siguientes sitios en el Internet para buscar informaci&amp;oacute;n acerca de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n para entender y aclarar tu punto de vista acerca de este tema. T&amp;uacute; tienes que leer todos los recursos para enriquecer tu personaje con el fin de hacer una decisi&amp;oacute;n s&amp;oacute;lida en tu informe:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/quiz.html- &lt;br&gt;Este es un peque&amp;ntilde;o examen que tienes que tomar. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.laoferta.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=3548&amp;amp;ltemid=38&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://publicagenda.org/issues/debate.cfm?issue_type=immigration&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.cis.org/topics/costs.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010611/&lt;br&gt;- Entra a leer&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4076603&lt;br&gt;- Vas a necesitar cerca de 7 &amp;frac12; minutos para escuchar este reporte&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;http://www.kqed.org/w/mosaic/latino/changingfaces.html&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ve a los siguientes sitios en el Internet para buscar informaci&amp;oacute;n acerca de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n para entender y aclarar tu punto de vista acerca de este tema. T&amp;uacute; tienes que leer todos los recursos para enriquecer tu personaje con el fin de hacer una decisi&amp;oacute;n s&amp;oacute;lida en tu informe:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Actividad #4-.Cuento corto relacionado con la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los entendimientos perdurables que el estudiante va a adquirir en esta actividad son: #1, #3, #5, #6, y #7. (Ver en la p&amp;aacute;g. 2 la lista de entendimientos perdurables).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los estudiantes leer&amp;aacute;n, en voz alta como actividad grupal, 2 cap&amp;iacute;tulos del cuento, &amp;ldquo;Cuando era puertorique&amp;ntilde;a&amp;rdquo; por Esmeralda Santiago.&lt;br&gt;.El prop&amp;oacute;sito es entender la parte ling&amp;uuml;&amp;iacute;stica, el vocabulario del cuento, comprender el contenido e identificar algunas razones de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n impl&amp;iacute;citas en el cuento.&lt;br&gt;.Evaluaci&amp;oacute;n: La evaluaci&amp;oacute;n que se realizar&amp;aacute; es de tipo informal. Los alumnos intercambiar&amp;aacute;n opiniones en cuanto al concepto de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n, en una actividad &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;de lluvia de ideas. Los estudiantes tendr&amp;aacute;n un mejor entendiemiento del choque cultural a trav&amp;eacute;s de la interpretaci&amp;oacute;n del cuento. Al finalizar el cuento, la maestra dirigir&amp;aacute; una discusi&amp;oacute;n en clase basada en las siguientes preguntas: &amp;iquest;Qui&amp;eacute;nes son los inmigrantes? &amp;iquest;Cu&amp;aacute;les son las causas de emigrar? &amp;iquest;A d&amp;oacute;nde emigran y por qu&amp;eacute;? &amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo se presenta el choque cultural en el cuento? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Actividad #5- Los estudiantes ver&amp;aacute;n la pel&amp;iacute;cula, &amp;ldquo;Un lugar en el mundo&amp;rdquo;, pero antes recibir&amp;aacute;n una lista de vocabulario que se usa en la pel&amp;iacute;cula para ayudarlos en el entendimiento de la trama.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los entendimientos perdurables que el estudiante va a adquirir en esta actividad son: #1, #5, #6, #7 y #8. (Ver en la p&amp;aacute;g. 2 la lista de entendimientos perdurables).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;inmigrar mucama&lt;br&gt;emigrar estancia&lt;br&gt;tierra patr&amp;oacute;n&lt;br&gt;pampa malaracha&lt;br&gt;&amp;aacute;rida vale&lt;br&gt;seca nene&lt;br&gt;monja pedalear&lt;br&gt;Utop&amp;iacute;a galp&amp;oacute;n&lt;br&gt;parias vacuna&lt;br&gt;vos mate&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;*Los estudiantes necesitar&amp;aacute;n contestar preguntas b&amp;aacute;sicas antes de ver la pel&amp;iacute;cula. Solamente, s&amp;iacute; o no.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1.- &amp;iquest;Has vivido en otro lugar?&lt;br&gt;2.- &amp;iquest;Has visitado un pueblo?&lt;br&gt;3.- &amp;iquest;Has visitado una ciudad grande?&lt;br&gt;4.- &amp;iquest;Tienes familiares provenientes de otro pa&amp;iacute;s?&lt;br&gt;5.- &amp;iquest;Conoces a un inmigrante?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;La clase discutir&amp;aacute; las preguntas antes de ver la pel&amp;iacute;cula como una manera de acercarlos a la realidad planteada en &amp;ldquo;Un lugar en el mundo&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;. EVALUACION &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A.-Con base en la pel&amp;iacute;cula, &amp;ldquo;Un lugar en el mundo&amp;rdquo; analiza y contesta las preguntas esenciales con un compa&amp;ntilde;ero en clase. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1.- &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; es la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n?&lt;br&gt;2.- &amp;iquest; A d&amp;oacute;nde van Ernesto y su madre? &amp;iquest;A d&amp;oacute;nde va Hans? &amp;iquest;A d&amp;oacute;nde va Nelda?&lt;br&gt;3.- &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; buscan Ernesto y su madre? &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; busca Hans?&lt;br&gt;4.- Imagina, &amp;iquest;c&amp;oacute;mo fue el choque cultural de Ernesto al llegar a Buenos &lt;br&gt;Aires? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los entendimientos perdurables que el estudiante va a adquirir en esta actividad son: #1, #2, #5, #6, #7 y #8. (Ver en la p&amp;aacute;g. 2 la lista de entendimientos perdurables).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Prop&amp;oacute;sito: A trav&amp;eacute;s de estas preguntas, se evaluar&amp;aacute;n las razones y el entendimiento de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n, en una parte ling&amp;uuml;&amp;iacute;stica, aplicando el uso del vocabulario en el contexto de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n planteado en la pel&amp;iacute;cula. Los estudiantes entregar&amp;aacute;n por escrito el enlistado de preguntas en forma individual. &lt;br&gt;El maestro (a) utilizar&amp;aacute; una r&amp;uacute;brica global para evaluar el entendimiento de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n planteado en la pel&amp;iacute;cula &amp;ldquo;Un lugar en el mundo&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Actividad de evaluaci&amp;oacute;n&lt;br&gt;En grupitos de 4 personas, los estudiantes escribir&amp;aacute;n y representar&amp;aacute;n una escena en Espa&amp;ntilde;ol sobre la vida de Ernesto en Buenos Aires despu&amp;eacute;s de salir del campo, mostrando el choque cultural que vivio Ernesto cuando lleg&amp;oacute; a Buenos Aires. &lt;br&gt;Se utilizar&amp;aacute; una r&amp;uacute;brica oral y escrita para evaluar esta actividad. &lt;br&gt;(Ver agregado con las r&amp;uacute;bricas)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los entendimientos perdurables que el estudiante va a adquirir en esta actividad son: #1, #5, #6, #7, y #8. (Ver en la p&amp;aacute;g. 2 la lista de entendimientos perdurables).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-TAREA&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1.-Entrevistar a un inmigrante, partiendo de las preguntas esenciales. Durante la clase se va a realizar una lluvia de ideas, a&amp;ntilde;adiendo preguntas que los estudaintes pueden utilizar en la entrevista. Asimismo, puedes a&amp;ntilde;adir preguntas que consideres que son importantes, durante la entrevista.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-Para usted, &amp;iquest;qu&amp;eacute; es la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n?&lt;br&gt;- &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; buscaba cuando inmigr&amp;oacute;? -&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo fue su choque cultural?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los entendimientos perdurables que el estudiante va a adquirir en esta actividad son: #1, #6 y #7. (Ver en la p&amp;aacute;g. 2 la lista de entendimientos perdurables).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Prop&amp;oacute;sito: Provocar una empat&amp;iacute;a en el estudiante para mejorar el entendimiento de las causas de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Evaluaci&amp;oacute;n: El estudiante entregar&amp;aacute; la entrevista al maestro (a). Se asignar&amp;aacute;n parejas para repasar la entrevista. Es decir, mientras un estudiante hace las preguntas, el otro contesta. Despu&amp;eacute;s los estudiantes presentar&amp;aacute;n sus entrevistas, enfrente del grupo, ayudados por un compa&amp;ntilde;ero de clase. El maestro (a) evaluar&amp;aacute; esta actividad con una r&amp;uacute;brica oral. (Ver agregado con la r&amp;uacute;brica en la p&amp;aacute;gina&amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;)&lt;br&gt;Tambi&amp;eacute;n como parte de la evaluaci&amp;oacute;n, se motivar&amp;aacute; a los estudiantes para que sean activistas dentro de la sociedad que les toc&amp;oacute; vivir. Asimismo, a los alumnos se les &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;dar&amp;aacute;n los sitios cibern&amp;eacute;ticos, o las direcciones, en los cu&amp;aacute;les pueden mandar un mensaje o escribir una carta a los asamble&amp;iacute;stas locales, solicitando un mejoramiento en la vida de los inmigrantes o d&amp;aacute;ndo opiniones para mejor el sitema social. Por ejemplo:&lt;br&gt;-En el Estado de B&amp;uacute;ffalo, el asamble&amp;iacute;sta se llama Byron Brown.&lt;br&gt;-En el Estado de Wisconsin, Kevin Crawford.&lt;br&gt;.En el Estado de California se llama Gil Cedillo.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Es importante mencionar que las maestras que dise&amp;ntilde;aron este proyecto viven en esos estados. Por consiguiente, son los congresistas estatales. Es muy importante, que el estudiante, a muy temprana edad, conozca el sistema, y lo sepa utilizar para un bien social, en este caso, la inmgraci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2.- .Utillizar algo del vocabulario de la pel&amp;iacute;cula, &amp;ldquo;Un lugar en el mundo&amp;rdquo; y escribir tu propio poema de 2 estrofas.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los entendimientos perdurables que el estudiante va a adquirir en esta actividad son: #1, #2, #6, #7, y #8. (Ver en la p&amp;aacute;g. 2 la lista de entendimientos perdurables).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Prop&amp;oacute;sito del proyecto: Con el poema que van a crear, &amp;ldquo; &amp;iquest;soy inmigrante porque&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo; se quiere que el estudiante profundice su entendimiento sobre su propia identidad. En este proyecto los estudiantes aplicar&amp;aacute;n elementos ling&amp;uuml;&amp;iacute;sticos, en una actividad comunicativa, para entender el concepto de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n y aplicar el vocabulario en un producto final. &lt;br&gt;-Los estudiantes presentar&amp;aacute;n los poemas en grupitos enfrente de la clase, y despu&amp;eacute;s se har&amp;aacute;n comentarios acerca del contenido del poema, bas&amp;aacute;ndose en la identidad como inmigrante y estableciendo una comparaci&amp;oacute;n entre los diversos poemas expuestos. Por ejemplo, enlistar las semejanzas y diferencias existentes en cada poema y comentarlas como actividad grupal. &lt;br&gt;.Evaluaci&amp;oacute;n: Adem&amp;aacute;s los poemas van a ser evaluados con una r&amp;uacute;brica escrita que contiene una evaluaci&amp;oacute;n de la gram&amp;aacute;tica, vocabulario, y el contenido del poema. Lo que se busca es que &lt;br&gt;el estudiante le d&amp;eacute; un sentido l&amp;oacute;gico al vocabulario y a la construcci&amp;oacute;n de oraciones y estrofas, buscando a la vez una empat&amp;iacute;a con el tema de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n a trav&amp;eacute;s del poema.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;T&amp;iacute;tulo del poema: &amp;ldquo;Soy inmigrante porque&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo; (Usar m&amp;iacute;nimo 10 palabras en el poema a crear)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;inmigrar mucama&lt;br&gt;emigrar estancia&lt;br&gt;tierra patr&amp;oacute;n&lt;br&gt;pampa malaracha&lt;br&gt;&amp;aacute;rida vale&lt;br&gt;seca nene&lt;br&gt;monja pedalear&lt;br&gt;Utop&amp;iacute;a galp&amp;oacute;n&lt;br&gt;parias vacuna&lt;br&gt;vos mate&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Evaluaci&amp;oacute;n Final &amp;ndash; Reflexi&amp;oacute;n-&lt;br&gt;Prop&amp;oacute;sito: La reflexi&amp;oacute;n radicar&amp;aacute; en una comparaci&amp;oacute;n de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n antes de abordar este tema, y despu&amp;eacute;s de haber estudiado diferentes aspectos de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n. Utilizando una r&amp;uacute;brica de evaluaci&amp;oacute;n individual escrita.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;El maestro (a) evaluar&amp;aacute; la reflexi&amp;oacute;n con una r&amp;uacute;brica de escritura, enlistando las siguientes categor&amp;iacute;as: Vocabulario, sintaxis, gram&amp;aacute;tica y comprensi&amp;oacute;n del concepto de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n a trav&amp;eacute;s del uso de comparaciones y ejemplos espec&amp;iacute;ficos referentes a la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;.Project Understanding Justification&lt;br&gt;.Justificaci&amp;oacute;n del proyecto de inmigraci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For the comprehension project, we began by identifying what Wiggins and McTighe call a big idea; a question that would not have an easy answer, and would be the guiding force of the unit. We had to choose our big idea within the scope of the classes we teach (our students&amp;rsquo; language abilities, their interests, relevance of topic to their lives, etc), and the resources available to use. With these things in mind, we developed the big idea, &amp;ldquo;Why does immigration exist?&amp;rdquo; From that big idea, we established the goal of our unit, four essential questions, and 4 understandings that we wanted our students to carry with them. The goal of our unit became, &amp;ldquo;Students will have an understanding and create their own reflection about the concept of immigration, naming the causes of immigration, where immigrants go, what immigrants are looking for, and the cultural shock immigrants experience. The essential questions and understandings are all based upon this goal. The essential questions we developed are:&lt;br&gt;1. What is immigration?&lt;br&gt;2. What are the differences between immigration and emigration?&lt;br&gt;3. What are immigrants looking for?&lt;br&gt;4. Where do immigrants/emigrants go?&lt;br&gt;5. What is the culture shock like for immigrants?&lt;br&gt;The essential understandings we created are: &lt;br&gt;1. To think, dialogue, and express the interpretive definition of immigration based on personal point of view, already formed by personal of family experiences, or based on personal interpretations of the points studied in class.&lt;br&gt;2. To know and distinguish between the terms &amp;ldquo;immigrate&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;emigrate&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br&gt;3. To visualize, list, and name some stereotypes of immigrants.&lt;br&gt;4. To identify and recognize personal cultural heritage in order to compare it with and to be more empathetic with the cultural diversity which immigrants bring to our society.&lt;br&gt;5. To identify some of the places where immigrants go.&lt;br&gt;6. To name and list some causes of immigration.&lt;br&gt;7. To encourage empathy in the students about the phenomenon of immigration.&lt;br&gt;8. To improve oral and written expression, emphasizing the use of new vocabulary, grammar and syntax.&lt;br&gt;We know that we are not be able to evaluate the goal of increasing student empathy towards the phenomenon of immigration, but still feel that it is an important goal in the unit. With our big idea and goal in mind, we began by determining the final evaluation, a written reflection in which students would engage in higher-level thinking by comparing their attitudes and understandings of immigration before the unit began, and at the conclusion of the unit. From that point, we worked backwards on the unit developing activities and evaluations that would help the students develop an understanding of immigration issues. &lt;br&gt; We decided to begin the unit with a self-description activity in order to help students see themselves as an important part of society as a whole, as well as practicing &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;the use of previously acquired vocabulary. The teacher will conduct a discussion after this activity to help students see the similarities and differences among themselves and the reasons why those similarities and differences exist. After the self-description activity, we developed an activity to introduce the theme of immigration to the students, and which we would use to define immigration and emigration, and which we would use as a springboard to identify the idea of leaving a country by choice or necessity. We also designed a web quest in which student groups would research the phenomenon of immigration from different points of view, and would have to arrive at a consensual opinion about the topic supported by their research. We chose to design a web quest in order to capture the students&amp;rsquo; interest, as well as using technology to have the most up-to-date resources and information as possible surrounding the topic of immigration. In the web quest, students will work in groups of four taking on different points of view about immigration, reading current information about immigration, and coming to a consensual group opinion which they must explain and defend in a PowerPoint presentation. This activity will be evaluated by a rubric. &lt;br&gt;In order to introduce the idea of culture shock, we chose to use the short story, &amp;ldquo;Cuando era puertorique&amp;ntilde;a&amp;rdquo; by Esmeralda Santiago. We chose this story because it contains the themes of immigration, where immigrants go, reasons for immigration, as well as exploring culture shock and discrimination. We will informally evaluate the students&amp;rsquo; understanding of this idea with a class discussion. To further develop students&amp;rsquo; understanding of immigration, reasons why people immigrate, and the idea of culture shock, we chose to include the movie, &amp;ldquo;Un lugar en el mundo.&amp;rdquo; To help students understand the movie, we created a vocabulary list and a set of questions to help them connect the theme of immigration to the movie. We developed an evaluation of the movie in which students must answer the essential unit questions in relation to the movie. In order to support different learning styles, we are also including an evaluation in which students must create and present an additional scene based on the movie, in which they must imagine the culture shock, the main character will encounter after moving from his small village to a big city.&lt;br&gt; To make a personal connection with the topic, and to encourage the development of empathy towards immigrants, students will be required to interview an immigrant as a homework assignment. Students will use personal contacts (family, friends, acquaintances, teachers) to find someone to interview. Teachers may also use personal contacts to help students find someone to interview. Students will use the essential questions in this interview, and may choose to add more questions which will be brainstormed in class, or which they think of during the interview depending on the length and quality of the interviewee&amp;rsquo;s answers. After making this real-world connection, students will use the vocabulary from the movie to create a poem entitled, &amp;ldquo;Soy inmigrante (I am an immigrant)&amp;rdquo; as a homework assignment to evaluate understanding of vocabulary, as well as of the essential understandings of the unit. The teacher will grade this with a rubric. &lt;br&gt; The final evaluation of this unit will be a written reflection in which students engage in higher-level thinking by comparing their attitudes and understandings of immigration before the unit began with their newly acquired information and knowledge based upon the activities and evaluations of the unit. We have decided that students will write this personal reflection in English because we believe that cultural acquisitions at this introductory level must be made in their native language. Students will also evaluate themselves in relation to their class participation, language use, and group participation.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We want our students to come away with a profound understanding about immigration issues and to be more aware of the multicultural society in which we live.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;R&amp;uacute;brica para evaluar la participaci&amp;oacute;n oral &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nombre del estudiante: ____________________ Fecha:_____________&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4 - Excepcional &amp;bull; Habla exclusivamente en espa&amp;ntilde;ol sin anglicismos.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Intenta comunicar ideas m&amp;aacute;s complejas y responde en forma elaborada a las otras personas.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Pocos errores de estructura no muestran patr&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Estilo animado y conversacional a&amp;ntilde;ade al ambiente de la fiesta.&lt;br&gt;3 - Bueno &amp;bull; Habla exclusivamente en espa&amp;ntilde;ol.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Comunica m&amp;aacute;s que ideas simples y responde en forma apropiada a las otras personas.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Hay errores de estructura, pero no impiden la comunicaci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Mantiene un estilo conversacional.&lt;br&gt;2 - Adecuado &amp;bull; Habla en espa&amp;ntilde;ol con unas excepciones, o escucha atentamente sin hablar.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Cuando habla, comunica en forma breve de una o dos palabras sin elaborar ideas.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Errores de estructura pueden causar dificultades en la comunicaci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Escucha bien.&lt;br&gt;1 &amp;ndash; Necesita mejorar &amp;bull; Usa mucho ingl&amp;eacute;s, o no participa en la actividad por hablar ni escuchar.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Comunica con una o dos palabras y no m&amp;aacute;s.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Errores de estructura hacen la comunicaci&amp;oacute;n muy dif&amp;iacute;cil, o no habla lo suficiente para evaluar el uso del idioma.&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull; Muestra poco intento de participar por escuchar.&lt;br&gt;La profesora tomar&amp;aacute; un promedio de las evaluaciones para llegar a la nota:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4 = 20 puntos&lt;br&gt;3.5-3.9 = 19 puntos&lt;br&gt;3.2-3.4 = 18 puntos&lt;br&gt;3.0-3.1 = 17 puntos&lt;br&gt;2.5-2.9 = 16 puntos&lt;br&gt;2.2-2.4 = 15 puntos&lt;br&gt;2.0-2.1 = 14 puntos&lt;br&gt;1.5-1.9 = 13 puntos&lt;br&gt;1.0-1.4 = 12 puntos&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;R&amp;uacute;brica de evaluaci&amp;oacute;n para la parte escrita&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nombre: ________________________________ Fecha: _________________&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Categor&amp;iacute;a Puntos Criterios Comentarios&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contenido &lt;br&gt;____ / 25 Las cualidades son claramente definidas y hay ejemplos relevantes. Los eventos est&amp;aacute;n ampliamente descritos. La conclusi&amp;oacute;n est&amp;aacute; bien apoyada.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Organizaci&amp;oacute;n &lt;br&gt;____ / 20 La organizaci&amp;oacute;n de las ideas est&amp;aacute; clara y l&amp;oacute;gica. Hay transiciones claras de una idea a otra.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Uso de lenguaje &lt;br&gt;____ / 25 Las oraciones son completas y a veces son complejas. No hay errores de acuerdo, tiempo, preposiciones, g&amp;eacute;nero, art&amp;iacute;culos, formas verbales, etc. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Vocabulario  &lt;br&gt;____ / 15 Hay variedad de vocabulario; no se repiten las mismas palabras. Las palabras est&amp;aacute;n utilizadas correctamente.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mec&amp;aacute;nica &lt;br&gt;____ / 15 No hay errores de puntuaci&amp;oacute;n, el uso de p&amp;aacute;rrafos, letras may&amp;uacute;sculas y min&amp;uacute;sculas, acentuaci&amp;oacute;n, ortograf&amp;iacute;a, etc. Se us&amp;oacute; letra de 12 Pts, m&amp;aacute;rgenes de 1&amp;rdquo; por todos lados.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;REFLEXI&amp;Oacute;N y EVALUACI&amp;Oacute;N FINAL&lt;br&gt;Nombre del estudiante:___________________________ Fecha: ___________&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contesta estas preguntas en ingl&amp;eacute;s. Evaluado por la r&amp;uacute;brica escrita (pero en ingl&amp;eacute;s).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I. Piensa en c&amp;oacute;mo cambi&amp;oacute; tu percepci&amp;oacute;n antes de iniciar la unidad de la inmigraci&amp;oacute;n, y ahora al terminarla. Compara tus actitudes y/o punto de vista referente al tema. Da razones espec&amp;iacute;ficas. (M&amp;iacute;nimo 200 palabras.) Escribe esto en otro papel.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Think about how you changed your perception before beginning the unit on immigration, and now that we have finished it. Compare your attitudes and/or point of view about the theme. Give specific reasons. (Minimum 200 words.) Write this on a different paper.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;II. Auto-evaluaci&amp;oacute;n del habla&lt;br&gt;Self-evaluation of speaking&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Primero, marca el espacio apropiado para ti, en la tabla a continuaci&amp;oacute;n.&lt;br&gt;First, mark the appropriate space for you in the following table.&lt;br&gt; Siempre / S&amp;iacute; Muchas veces  A veces / m&amp;aacute;s o menos Nunca / no&lt;br&gt;1. Habl&amp;eacute; en espa&amp;ntilde;ol.    &lt;br&gt;2. Contest&amp;eacute; preguntas con m&amp;aacute;s de una o dos palabras.    &lt;br&gt;3. Trabaj&amp;eacute; responsablemente con &lt;br&gt;el grupo e individualmente    &lt;br&gt;4. Prepar&amp;eacute; bien la informaci&amp;oacute;n necesaria para poder participar.    &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Segundo, contesta las preguntas.&lt;br&gt;1. &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; hiciste bien o qu&amp;eacute; parte fue f&amp;aacute;cil para ti?&lt;br&gt;What did you do well, or what part was easy for you?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2. &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; fue m&amp;aacute;s dif&amp;iacute;cil para ti?&lt;br&gt;What was more difficult for you?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3. &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; sugerencias tienes para los profesores para mejorar la unidad en el futuro?&lt;br&gt;What suggestions do you have for the teachers in order to improve this unit in the future?&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Proyecto de comprensión: Guille y Merrie</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Proyecto+de+comprensi%C3%B3n%3A+Guille+y+Merrie</link><author>wworsnopp</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Proyecto+de+comprensi%C3%B3n%3A+Guille+y+Merrie</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:53:56 CDT</pubDate><description> 				&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;Preguntas esenciales:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; es un s&amp;iacute;mbolo?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1: &amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo usamos los s&amp;iacute;mbolos? &lt;br&gt;2: &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; impacto tienen los s&amp;iacute;mbolos?&lt;br&gt;3:&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo nos definen los s&amp;iacute;mbolos?&lt;br&gt;4: &amp;iquest;De d&amp;oacute;nde vienen los s&amp;iacute;mbolos?&lt;br&gt;5:&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo cambian los s&amp;iacute;mbolos? &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute;?&lt;br&gt;6: &amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo los interpretamos?&lt;br&gt;7: &amp;iquest;Depende del contexto? (pol&amp;iacute;tico, hist&amp;oacute;rico, religioso, clase social)&lt;br&gt;8: &amp;iquest; Son positivos o negativos?&lt;br&gt;9: &amp;iquest;Los s&amp;iacute;mbolos son calculados o arbitrarios?&lt;br&gt;10: &amp;iquest; Son reales o ficticios?&lt;br&gt;11: &amp;iquest;Representan una identidad leg&amp;iacute;tima?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Entendimientos perdurables y habilidades.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;1- Identificar e interpretar los s&amp;iacute;mbolos, incluso los que forman parte de sus experiencias personales. &lt;br&gt;2- Reconocer, entender, y evaluar la influencia de los s&amp;iacute;mbolos.&lt;br&gt;3- Entender c&amp;oacute;mo los s&amp;iacute;mbolos pueden definir al individuo, un pa&amp;iacute;s o cultura.&lt;br&gt;4- Identificar los s&amp;iacute;mbolos nacionales de un pa&amp;iacute;s.&lt;br&gt;5 -Relacionar los s&amp;iacute;mbolos a su propio contexto (el contexto del estudiante).&lt;br&gt;6- Entender los efectos de los s&amp;iacute;mbolos en sus vidas personales.&lt;br&gt;7- Comparar los s&amp;iacute;mbolos de culturas diferentes.&lt;br&gt;8- Entender c&amp;oacute;mo se forman los s&amp;iacute;mbolos. &lt;br&gt;9- Entender c&amp;oacute;mo se evolucionan los s&amp;iacute;mbolos. &lt;br&gt;10- Mejorar la expresi&amp;oacute;n oral y escrita, especificamente: &lt;br&gt;-verbos del presente y pasado.&lt;br&gt;-la concordancia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Evaluaci&amp;oacute;n:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br&gt;(Descripciones m&amp;aacute;s detalladas de actividades y evaluaci&amp;oacute;n est&amp;aacute;n incluidas abajo con las actividades).&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;Estudiantes estar&amp;aacute;n evaluados al principio de la unidad y al final (y muchas veces durante la unidad tambi&amp;eacute;n). Una de las dos actividades incluidos abajo sirve para evaluar estudiantes al principio de la unidad, y la otra viene al final. La primera actividad es la creaci&amp;oacute;n de un perfil en la pagina WIKI de la clase (introducida anteriormente). La otra actividad a trav&amp;eacute;s de que medimos a los estudiantes es la creaci&amp;oacute;n de su propia propaganda (despues de estudiar el uso de s&amp;iacute;mbolos como propaganda por los Estados Unidos y Argentina (WebQuest). &lt;br&gt;Cada actividad est&amp;aacute; dise&amp;ntilde;ada con los entendimientos perdurables en mente, y las dos actividades miden estos entendimientos. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Justificaci&amp;oacute;n:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://wworsnopp.googlepages.com/justificationproj.under.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://wworsnopp.googlepages.com/justificationproj.under.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;____________________________________________________________________________________________________________&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Espa&amp;ntilde;ol nivel II: Clases de aproximadamente 90 minutos:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;En un lugar en Maine, donde cada estudiante tiene su propia computadora m&amp;oacute;vil.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Actividades:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Primera clase:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;1: Comenzamos con la pregunta: &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; es un s&amp;iacute;mbolo? escrita en la pizarra. En grupos de tres, estudiantes comienzan a definir la palabra &amp;quot;s&amp;iacute;mbolo&amp;quot; e identificar algunos s&amp;iacute;mbolos.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2: Estudiantes comparten sus ideas con la clase. Hacemos una lista en la pizarra.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3: Mostramos varios ejemplos de s&amp;iacute;mbolos de nuestra cultura.&lt;br&gt;Estudiantes responden a cada uno, tomando en cuenta las siguientes preguntas:&lt;br&gt;-&amp;iquest;Es un s&amp;iacute;mbolo? &amp;iquest;Por qu&amp;eacute;?&lt;br&gt;-&amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; representa?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;    &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4: Estudiantes crean su primera definici&amp;oacute;n de un s&amp;iacute;mbolo, primero como individuos. Despu&amp;eacute;s de formar una definici&amp;oacute;n, van a charlar en grupo, y entonces hacemos una discusi&amp;oacute;n como clase de las definiciones diferentes que tenemos.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;5: Compartimos las definiciones diferentes de los grupos, intentando formar una variedad de definiciones concretas.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;6: Utilizando la definici&amp;oacute;n que acabamos de crear, tenemos una an&amp;aacute;lisis preliminaria, como clase, de obras seleccionadas de Xul Solar. La &amp;eacute;nfasis est&amp;aacute; en la identificaci&amp;oacute;n de s&amp;iacute;mbolos seg&amp;uacute;n la definici&amp;oacute;n que acabamos de crear. Despu&amp;eacute;s de la unidad entera, volveremos otra vez a las obras de Xul Solar para estudiarlas de nuevo, con el entendimiento m&amp;aacute;s profundo de los estudiantes. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nos enfocamos en las siguientes preguntas:&lt;br&gt;-&amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; ven ustedes en la pintura?&lt;br&gt;-&amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; s&amp;iacute;mbolos reconocen?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;7: Tarea:&lt;br&gt;En la pagina WIKI de la clase, estudiantes van a crear el perfil de un s&amp;iacute;mbolo que les representa. &lt;br&gt;-Estudiantes tienen que crear un perfil &lt;br&gt;-Tienen que incluir un s&amp;iacute;mbolo (en vez de su foto) que les representa. &lt;br&gt;-Tambi&amp;eacute;n, estudiantes tienen que explicar como este s&amp;iacute;mbolo les representa. Dentro de esta explicaci&amp;oacute;n, estudiantes deben incluir informaci&amp;oacute;n biogr&amp;aacute;fica que ayuda a explicar la conexi&amp;oacute;n personal con el s&amp;iacute;mbolo.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Segunda clase: &lt;br&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;1: Cada estudiante va a compartir su perfil a la clase en una presentaci&amp;oacute;n breve. Comentarios y preguntas de estudiantes y maestros despu&amp;eacute;s.&lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;Evaluaci&amp;oacute;n de la creaci&amp;oacute;n de un perfil en la WIKI de la clase.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br&gt;-habilidad de utilizar la tecnolog&amp;iacute;a.&lt;br&gt;-habilidad de identificar e interpretar los s&amp;iacute;mbolos, incluso los que forman parte de sus experiencias personales.&lt;br&gt;-habilidad de relacionar los s&amp;iacute;mbolos a su propio contexto (el contexto del estudiante).&lt;br&gt;-entendimiento de como los s&amp;iacute;mbolos pueden definir al individuo.&lt;br&gt;-habilidades ling&amp;uuml;&amp;iacute;sticas: escritas y de una presentaci&amp;oacute;n, espec&amp;iacute;ficamente, el uso de verbos del presente y la concordancia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2: A trav&amp;eacute;s de las pinturas seleccionadas por las profesoras (&lt;i&gt;Descanso en el camino, Caballeria gaucha, Soldado de Rosas, &lt;/i&gt;y&lt;i&gt; , Pulper&amp;iacute;a&lt;/i&gt;) intentamos a describir e identificar al gaucho por una discusi&amp;oacute;n de los elementos de las obras. Hacemos una lista de rasgos gauchos basados en las siguientes preguntas:&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo es el gaucho?&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;D&amp;oacute;nde vive?&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo es la vida gaucha?&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; puede representar el gaucho?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;        &lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Soldado de Rosas   Pulperia         Descanso en camino     Caballer&amp;iacute;a gaucha&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3: En parejas, estudiantes leen estrofas seleccionadas de &lt;i&gt;Mart&amp;iacute;n Fierro&lt;/i&gt; que les ayudan a definir al gaucho. Vuelven a las preguntas de arriba para a&amp;ntilde;adir a su visi&amp;oacute;n del gaucho:&lt;br&gt;-&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo es el gaucho?&lt;br&gt;-&amp;iquest;D&amp;oacute;nde vive?&lt;br&gt;-&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo es la vida gaucha?&lt;br&gt;-&amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; se puede representar el gaucho?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4: Cada pareja comparte con el grupo sus interpretaciones del gaucho. A&amp;ntilde;adimos a la lista de rasgos gauchos en la pizarra. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;5: Tambi&amp;eacute;n en parejas, estudiantes van a leer partes seleccionadas de &lt;i&gt;El escritor argentino y la tradici&amp;oacute;n&lt;/i&gt;: del texto para tener una comprensi&amp;oacute;n m&amp;aacute;s profunda del gaucho como s&amp;iacute;mbolo argentino (seg&amp;uacute;n Borges). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;6: Van a mirar &lt;i&gt;Un lugar en el mundo&lt;/i&gt;, pensando en las siguientes preguntas:&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;Qui&amp;eacute;nes son los gauchos en la pel&amp;iacute;cula?&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo son los gauchos en la pel&amp;iacute;cula?&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;D&amp;oacute;nde viven los gauchos de la peli?&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo son diferentes los guachos de las pinturas, &lt;i&gt;Mart&amp;iacute;n Fierro&lt;/i&gt;, y &lt;i&gt;Un lugar en el mundo&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;C&amp;oacute;mo ha cambiado el gaucho como s&amp;iacute;mbolo?&lt;br&gt;&amp;iquest;El gaucho es una representaci&amp;oacute;n legitima para Argentina?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;7: Estudiantes escriben un ensayito de ciento cincuenta palabras bajo el titulo: &amp;iquest;Qui&amp;eacute;nes son los gauchos de hoy? Estudiantes tendr&amp;aacute;n que escoger una figura contempor&amp;aacute;nea que representa un &amp;ldquo;gaucho moderno&amp;rdquo;. Se pueden utilizar estrellas del cine, personajes de libros o canciones, o personas en sus vidas personales. Estudiantes deben explicar sus decisiones, y apoyar sus ideas usando evidencia de los recursos de la clase (o otras, si quieren). &lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Evaluaci&amp;oacute;n del ensayito: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br&gt;Estudiantes van a mostrar:&lt;br&gt; - que entienden el concepto de &amp;#39;un gaucho&amp;#39; relacionado a la cultura Argentina&lt;br&gt; - que pueden aplicarlo a su contexto contempor&amp;aacute;neo&lt;br&gt; - que reconocen, entienden y evaluan la influencia de los s&amp;iacute;mbolos&lt;br&gt; - que entienden c&amp;oacute;mo los s&amp;iacute;mbolos pueden definir al individuo, un pa&amp;iacute;s o cultura&lt;br&gt; - que pueden comparar los s&amp;iacute;mbolos de culturas diferentes&lt;br&gt; - que notan c&amp;oacute;mo se evolucionan los s&amp;iacute;mbolos &lt;br&gt; - que comunican bien, usando verbos del presente y pasado y concordancia correcta&lt;br&gt; - que entienden los efectos de los s&amp;iacute;mbolos en sus propias vidas&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Una variedad de actividades pueden caber dentro de la unidad, incluso varios recursos sobre los desaparecidos, los s&amp;iacute;mbolos como propaganda, etc. Para terminar la unidad, estudiantes har&amp;aacute;n el siguiente Webquest, y despues, volveremos otra vez a mirar las obras de Xul Solar (de la primera clase). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;8: La penultima actividad de la unidad es un WEBQUEST bajo el t&amp;iacute;tulo: &amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; es un s&amp;iacute;mbolo? &lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://wworsnopp.googlepages.com/queesunsimboloespanol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://wworsnopp.googlepages.com/queesunsimboloespanol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;Evaluaci&amp;oacute;n, Webquest:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br&gt;El Webquest ser&amp;aacute; la &amp;uacute;ltima actividad de la unidad, &amp;ldquo;&amp;iquest;Qu&amp;eacute; es un s&amp;iacute;mbolo?&amp;rdquo;. A trav&amp;eacute;s del Webquest, estudiantes necesitar&amp;aacute;n aplicar y demostrar el entendimiento de los conceptos centrales de la unidad, particularmente, los primeros ocho (de nueve) entendimientos perdurables. Por lo tanto, estudiantes lograr&amp;aacute;n las metas del curso. Los videos que forman parte del Webquest exigir&amp;aacute;n que estudiantes identifiquen e interpreten los s&amp;iacute;mbolos que forman parte de sus experiencias, y s&amp;iacute;mbolos que define los Estados Unidos y Argentina. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Espec&amp;iacute;ficamente, el video que trata del once de septiembre, 2001, exigir&amp;aacute; que estudiantes formen una conexi&amp;oacute;n fuerte a sus vidas personales, y permitir&amp;aacute; que reconozcan y entiendan el impacto de los s&amp;iacute;mbolos, en su pa&amp;iacute;s y en sus vidas personales. Estudiantes tambi&amp;eacute;n conseguir&amp;aacute;n un entendimiento de c&amp;oacute;mo se forman los s&amp;iacute;mbolos.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Los videos de la copa mundial de Argentina en 1978 (Youtube: Empieza el mundial, La selecci&amp;oacute;n nacional) proveer&amp;aacute;n a los estudiantes la oportunidad de identificar los s&amp;iacute;mbolos nacionales de otros pa&amp;iacute;ses, y (Argentina), reconocer, comprender, y evaluar la influencia de los s&amp;iacute;mbolos. Estudiantes tambi&amp;eacute;n conseguir&amp;aacute;n un entendimiento de c&amp;oacute;mo se forman los s&amp;iacute;mbolos..&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Estudiantes tendr&amp;aacute;n la oportunidad de comparar el video de los Estados Unidos (despu&amp;eacute;s del once de septiembre) con los de Argentina durante la Copa mundial. Estudiantes, por lo tanto, demostrar&amp;aacute;n la habilidad de comparar, comprender, e interpretar los s&amp;iacute;mbolos de culturas y pa&amp;iacute;ses diferentes. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Project Understanding: La identidad--Chris, Pam, Melissa</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Project+Understanding%3A+La+identidad--Chris%2C+Pam%2C+Melissa</link><author>merriemcivor</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Project+Understanding%3A+La+identidad--Chris%2C+Pam%2C+Melissa</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:30:17 CDT</pubDate><description> 				&lt;font color=&quot;#287522&quot;&gt;Companeros, Escriban sus comentarios aqui despues de leer &amp;quot;Unidad entera 3&amp;quot;. Para que sepan, pensamos usar esta unidad con nuestras clases de nivel 3 en la escuela secundaria. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#287522&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/works/record.html?record=2411&amp;large=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/works/record.html?record=2411&amp;amp;large=1&lt;/a&gt; - Come and observe argentine nationalism - Cuba Libre &lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#287522&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#287522&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#287522&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#287522&quot;&gt;See additional attachments at the bottom-Melissa&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Aqu&amp;iacute; tienen ustedes mis comentarios super intelectuales, &amp;iquest;no? Del principio quer&amp;iacute;a usar el tema de la identidad, pero Guille no nos permiti&amp;oacute;. (Le gusta dominar, &amp;iquest;no?)  Mejor, porque su grupo la hab&amp;iacute;a escogido. Bueno. Voy a usar su concepto este a&amp;ntilde;o con el simbolismo, en alguna forma. Su proyecto me dio muchas ideas. Pero no entiendo el uso de MySpace...&amp;iquest;pueden explicarme c&amp;oacute;mo van a utilizarlo? Usaron muy buenas fuentes de la clase (pues, todas eran excelentes, &amp;iquest;no?). Me gusta el uso de &amp;quot;Amalia,&amp;quot; del cuento &amp;quot;El Sur&amp;quot; y la pel&amp;iacute;cula &amp;quot;Un lugar en el mundo.&amp;quot; Todo trata del tema de identidad (&amp;iquest;qu&amp;eacute; literature/pel&amp;iacute;cula no lo hace &amp;eacute;sto, &amp;iquest;no?) Usar un WIKI tambi&amp;eacute;n me parece buena idea y la tarea de escribir una carta de la perspectiva de una personaje de la pel&amp;iacute;cula. &amp;iexcl;Bien hecho, queridos amigos m&amp;iacute;os!! Merrie&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#287522&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#287522&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#287522&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#333333&quot;&gt;Me gusta mucho su tema - la identidad - es un concepto que siempre cambia. En cuanto a la carta - van a tener mas direcciones? Me parece muy &amp;quot;abierto&amp;quot;. Que tipos de paginas imaginan en el Wiki? Laura&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Creo que es un tema muy importante especialmente para los jovenes de hoy que muy frequentemente tienen problema de identidad. Me gustaron mucho las preguntas esenciales que seran muy importante para lograr un mejor entendimiento.(Marilyn)&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Action Research-Pam, Christine, Melisssa</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Action+Research-Pam%2C+Christine%2C+Melisssa</link><author>mpytlak</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Action+Research-Pam%2C+Christine%2C+Melisssa</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:26:45 CDT</pubDate><description>Disciplined Statement 2 now has addtions in how do we know it.--Melissa&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#2c5e31&quot; face=&quot;Helvetica&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot; face=&quot;Helvetica&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot; face=&quot;Helvetica&quot;&gt;Melissa&amp;#39;s email: &lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.commailto:melissa.pytlak@cheshireacademy.org&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;melissa.pytlak@cheshireacademy.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot; face=&quot;Helvetica&quot;&gt;Christine&amp;#39;s email: &lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.commailto:christinegoulet@hotmail.com&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;christinegoulet@hotmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot; face=&quot;Helvetica&quot;&gt;Pam&amp;#39;s email: &lt;a href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.commailto:panderso@gc.k12.va.us&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;panderso@gc.k12.va.us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Helvetica&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Songs</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Songs</link><author>lisamaupin</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Songs</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:23:58 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;Les Cornichons&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;I use this song by Nino Ferrer (just the CD version without video) when we begin learning about food.  It&amp;#39;s got lots of food items in it and I have them listen to the CD once and write down all the food words (or even just words) in French.  I then give them the full text and we learn it together.  Last year, one of my 7th grade boys went home and found a version on youtube (song is Ferrer, but youtube video is not by him) that fit perfectly with the lyrics!  (it&amp;#39;s wierd enough that my middle schoolers love it).   -- Lisa M.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj8inmOKSUg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj8inmOKSUg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;Le Bruit et L&amp;#39;Odeur&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here is another &lt;b&gt;Zebda &lt;/b&gt;song - &amp;quot;Le Bruit et L&amp;#39;Odeur&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;The Noise and the Smell&amp;quot;. You may have to turn up the volume on your computer to hear it well. -- Lisa M.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xaUpolyCU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xaUpolyCU&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is part of Jacque Chirac&amp;#39;s infamous speech, on which Zebda based it&amp;#39;s song &amp;quot;Le Bruit et L&amp;#39;Odeur.&amp;quot; -- Lisa M. &lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=dhNdToq-AMQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=dhNdToq-AMQ&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;Tomber la chemise&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;wikiWrapper&quot;&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  Have fun with this everyone! Whether you understand French or not, we all seem to enjoy the great sound of Zebda!! - Amanda&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJR8BdJvNYg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#497fb1&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJR8BdJvNYg&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>WebQuests by French MATSL Students</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/WebQuests+by+French+MATSL+Students</link><author>Christine_Goulet</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/WebQuests+by+French+MATSL+Students</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:30:04 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://autumnadia.googlepages.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://autumnadia.googlepages.com/home&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our essential question evolves around censorship during the German Occupation of France through the lens of the &amp;quot;Liste Otto&amp;quot;. Students are asked to research the author, the story, and the historical background of different books. Students will use what they have learned to look at how censorship can have an affect on their intellectual lives today. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Congratulations! The image you posted in the home page says it all--very nice touch. Your WebQuest pushes students to challenge themselves. I like how you have the students decide if certain books should be censored or not. &lt;br&gt;-Christine&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://lcmatsl.googlepages.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://lcmatsl.googlepages.com/&lt;/a&gt; Propaganda posters used during World War II by the French and American allies. The WebQuest requires students to analyze propaganda posters from both countries, and to choose two of them to analyze. Students then watch two propaganda clips as in introduction as to the next steps in the unit. The end result of this entire unit will be for students to create their own posters, films or songs around the tactics used in propaganda and/or marketing. At school we will have an exhibit will all of the students work. -Christine and Lisa&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;http://matsl.wetpaint.comhttp://almatsl.googlepages.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://almatsl.googlepages.com&lt;/a&gt; The essential question of our webquest is How does the study of the French Resistance help us better understand the ideal of freedom. Our studnets will explore the theme of daily life of adolescents during the German Occupation in France. Amanda and Linda&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Congratulations!  I really enjoyed your thought provoking questions for the students.  You really succeed in asking higher thought questions, but use vocabulary and grammar they already know.  I would like to use this WebQuest with my students.  -Christine&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>WebQuests Created by Us</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/WebQuests+Created+by+Us</link><author>Christine_Goulet</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/WebQuests+Created+by+Us</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:52:19 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot; face=&quot;Garamond&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;Please provide the links to the WebQuests you have created&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot; face=&quot;Garamond&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot; face=&quot;Garamond&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item><item><title>Book/film suggestions</title><link>http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Book%2Ffilm+suggestions</link><author>lisamaupin</author><guid isPermaLink="false">http://matsl.wetpaint.com/page/Book%2Ffilm+suggestions</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:43:48 CDT</pubDate><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;Books&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;Persepolis&lt;/u&gt; - de Marjane Satrapi. Roman graphique ecrit en francais par une femme d&amp;#39;origine irannienne qui raconte son histoire pendant la revolution islamique.  Super pour les eleves un peu plus ages car l&amp;#39;original est en francais, mais il est maintenant tres populaire aux US en anglais.  -- Lisa M.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;Films&lt;/font&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;u&gt;Les Choristes &lt;/u&gt;- Une tres belle histoire d&amp;#39;une ecole pour garcons pendant les annees 50. -- Lisa M.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>