Language+B+Project+Ideas

=Language B Project Ideas=

__Student Eportfolios__: How can I reflect on my learning and understanding? The intent of the portfolio is to demonstrate to the individual student, the current MFL teacher and next year’s MFL teacher what the student has achieved this year in his or her MFL class. To provide the student a purposeful electronic collection of work and reflections that can be made available on the WWW or on the school server or in digitized form; such that it can be considered an ongoing collection device demonstrating the growth that the student has made in his/her modern foreign language course. To help teach students how to access and manage information, enhance their communication (both written, oral and graphical) skills, think critically and use technology effectively. Applications/Software/Tools: Web Design (Dreamweaver) Scanner, Photo booth, Photoshop

__Vocabulary Flashcards:__ How can I generate mass products quickly? Students use Data Merge Manager to quickly generate flashcards from their grammar lists in Excel. To give the student an opportunity to explore how data entered into a spreadsheet can be merged in order to provide fast and efficient flashcards for memorization of language vocabulary Applications/Software/Tools: Excel, Microsoft Word

__Foreign Language Comics__: How can I express myself? Students create their own comic strip and write a 'story' using the elements typically found in comics. Allows students the freedom to develop characters and personalities in a different language. Applications/Software/Tools: Comic Life

__Foreign Films:__ How can I get away from my biases? Students will investigate the difference between independent foreign films and big cinema US films. Students will use their language skills, creativity and imagination to develop a short foreign film. This lesson not only teaches the student to develop original content ideas but also helps them to identify popular biases towards big cinema film. It also reinforces their foreign language by giving them the ability to plan, practice, shoot, re-shoot, and edit scenes; giving them an opportunity to perfect their language in a way that preforming a skit live does not. Applications/Software/Tools: iMovie, (Movie Maker, Final Cut Pro)

__Traveling in Virtual TIme__ Students explore unknown places in a foreign country. They discover what these places are and answer questions specific to each one that ties in the vocabulary they have been studying. As a way of bringing all three together, the students are given the task of determining which Metro route(s) (Tourist routes) would best take them from one tourist site to the other. The sites that they will visit are the actual official sites in that country. Every attempt is given to provide them with as real a situation as can be to simulate what it might be like to be a tourist. They must use their foreign language to read signs, determine hours, fares, meals and place names. Resources: []