Jenny-use this page to practice!

 

OK, I'm practicing.  This is a new experience.  I was unable to fully appreciate the videos, because I can't hear anything on my laptop.  I suppose I'll need speakers. 

 

Here's an image:   It's Big Sur, looking south from just south of Carmel.    An exchange with my class would be great.  How would we go about it?

 

Jenny

 

 

Great! I just got your message and checked.  I remember that view (well sort of). I did the entire coast on a bicycle when I was younger.  One time from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and another time from the Bay Area to Seattle!

 

If you want to proceed, we'd just have to pick a topic.  Probably, I'd want to create a separate wiki for this project with a separate password that we would both have and of course give to our students.  We'd start off with an introductory page and then a second page where students can start posting information just as you did.  Both groups can post information building on the topic and adding photos or links.    

 

Suggested topics:

 

Family vacations (they'd have pictures!) It would also be easy to link to tourist sites about the places they've visited

Important cultural holidays or events

Suggestions for learning English

Recipes of favorite foods

hobbies and sports students like

 

Give me some suggestions and we can pick one and a time frame to get going.

 

By the way, what level are your students again?  Cultural Mix? Age range? 

 

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Hi Barry,

I have a small group of students who are interested in transitioning to college, but their skills, honestly, are in the high-intermediate range. Ages are 20s-40-ish.  Cultural mix:  S. Korea, Vietnam, Congo, Togo and Germany.  I like the idea of family vacations and cultural holidays or events.  Recipes would be great, but I'm not sure they all cook (is that sexist of me to imagine that the men don't cook?). I also really like suggestions for learning English. Anyway, I'm not coming up with any other ideas at present.

 

What do you think?

 

Jenny

 

Let's give them some options.  You have more of a cultural mix than I do (80% Mexican, the rest El Salvadorian) so I think something about home countries would be nice and since you're over there on the east coast if we do something about places to visit in the US we'll get a nice variety of west coast and east coast destinations.  The overall theme could be travel destinations at home and travel destinations in the US and they could either be places they've visited or places they research.  We could start by each of us creating the first destination at the top  of each page so they could be used as a model.  What do you think?

 

9/27 Jenny says:  I like the theme of travel destinations at home (their native countries) and in the U.S.  I also like the idea of sharing about where we all live now (like, here's some fun facts about Vermont, and what can you tell us about Pacoima, L.A., etc?).  When you said that each of us creates the first destination at the top of each page, you lost me.  Do you mean us, the teachers, or us the whole group?  Also, I'm not familiar with mulitple pages.  I'm sure that will become abundantly clear in no time. Will it be self-explanatory?  By the way, I spoke w/ my students this morning about coming in a half hour early (many of them do this already) and working on the computers (extra English practice, research, etc.).  But this project can be the focus of that half hour or so.  I think they will be thrilled to communicate with students across the country.  Also, FYI, I only have 5 students!!  This shouldn't matter, right?

 OH- but there is another section that I more or less oversee -- that has 14 students.  They could participate potentially as well, though they share 3 computers among them, and I have 18 in my classroom!

 

Yes, I was thinking that we would start off (as in you and I!)  When you look at the top of the page you should see  button that says "new page" click on that to make a new page.  To get to the new page you created, you can either create a link in the body of the original page or scroll down to the bottom and under "Wiki Information" you'll see a link "show all pages"  - you'll be able to see all the other pages I've created and use with my students and how the navigation works.  If you have a "paying" wiki, you can "lock" pages to protect them from being changed at all.  What I've done is simply only put links to the pages I want them to see and not tell them about the link at the bottom of the page to all of the pages.  In any case, anything that gets changed can be reversed if necessary.

 

Numbers don't matter-I have more than 20 students but not all will probably participate.  In your case, you can decide if you want to open it up to both sections.  I'll see if I can set up a brand new wiki for this project and get it going next week.

 

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