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Edmodo Tutorial

Please view this tutorial about Edmodo, a safe learning management system for students. I have used Edmodo with French language learners (online teaching) and with my Grade 6 French Immersion Students as part of our Harry Potter Book Project with students from Cairo, Egypt. It is a very useful tool if you don't have Moodle or an affordable (or free) Moodle hosting service. I am a strong advocate for the open source movement :-)

Make Quizzes with PhotoPeach!

Thanks to this great post by one of my favorite teacher bloggers, Ana Maria Menezes, I have learned how to create a quiz using PhotoPeach . This is my first time actually using PhotoPeach but I am not new to using images in the French Immersion classroom.  I see so much potential and benefits to using images as a medium of language instruction.  Images serve as visual aids and can help students more readily form associations between objects/feelings/places and their words in the target language. I have been a big fan of using images as part of my "Image mysterieuse" weekly writing activity in class.  I would put up an image from Flickr and ask students to write about what might be transpiring in the image.  Sometimes I would also use sentence prompts to accompany the images, facilitating the thought process behind this writing exercise. Using PhotoPeach to create Grammar quizzes would undoubtedly be a more refreshing approach to teaching grammar or spelling...