Saturday, November 14, 2009

Ways to Use Blogging in the School Classroom

On Saturday I attended the LILT Conference at Bayshore Middle School. LILT stands for Long Island Language teachers, and the conference was a large gathering of language teachers. I met two of my former students there. One became a Spanish teacher, while the other became an Italian teacher, though the latter had originally intended to be an elementary school teacher. In addition to seeing them, I went to several interesting workshops.

Two Spanish/Italian teachers gave a workshop on blogging with their students. They have several blogs, to which all their students from various classes can connect. The school has given them permission for the blogs to be open to the public. Here are the addresses:

www.desimoneespanol5ap.blogspot.com

www.laotranovela.blogspot.com

www.poesiapincelada.blogspot.com

www.italiano-tre.blogspot.com

www.italiano-cinque.blogspot.com

I hope you can get some ideas from them. The links are not working properly through my blog, so just copy and paste them into your browser.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Chocolate Cream Pie


1 Oreo or Keebler's Chocolate Graham Crust
1 package of My-T-Fine chocolate pudding
2 cups milk
1 half pint of heavy cream
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 tablespoon sugar or confectioner's sugar

Cook the pudding with the milk exactly as directed on the package. Stirring it is key to not burning it, so be patient.
Let it cool about 10 minutes, and then pour it into the pie crust. Put the pie in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
Whip the heavy cream with the vanilla and sugar until thick and creamy. Put the cream on the top of the pie. Refrigerate or serve. You may add chocolate sprinkles or shavings.
Make this pie on the day that you are planning to eat it. Enjoy!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

languageaccount Home - languageaccount

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Please visit the link above. It takes you to a great web page that shows the world's killer languages on a map and has speakers of US dialects and of endangered languages around the world. You will be able to listen to spealkers of the Tangiers dialect in Virginia, USA. I challenge you to write a transcript of what they are saying. Don't miss it!