June 10th: Virtual Tour http://www.californiamissions.com/

Although I'm not seeing much of a difference between webquests and virtual tours, I found several good virtual tours I could use in my classroom. I would also like to create a virtual tour with my students of Spanish Speaking country highlights. Each student would research their own country/city and we'd create a virtual tour with the results. More specific, when studying school subjects and schedules of schools in S.S. countries, we could design a virtual tour several schools in Mexico with links to their class descriptions and information about each school.

June 10th

Link to a podcast: itunes, itunes store, itunesu, university, languages, A Buen Puerto - Fast Forward in Spanish.

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I especially liked the utube video link that was provided. After being out of the classroom for 8 years, I found many changes. I had not used technology in my classroom previously but had kept up on some of the new technology during the period I wasn't teaching. My one lasting impression after my first full year back was how much more depth technology adds to the curriculum. Classroom learning is much more layered and complex than it used to be. Students are also much more accustomed to receiving "multiple streams" of information at the same time thus providing much more information than I would have previously covered with any given topic.