Ms. Olah’s Spanish 1 2008-2009

Welcome back from Spring Break! Hope you are all ready to finish the year on a positive note. Monday and Tuesday (4/13 and 14) we will be in the computer lab finishing your country projects. Your individual projects should be completed and you will be working on your group poster and adding your posters to your wiki page and blogs.

For your group glog poster EACH person will contribute a picture and summary text box for EACH topic they researched and add them to a group glog poster.

To add your personal page to the wiki please follow these instructions:
1. Go to your country wiki page and click ‘new page’
2. Title the page according to your subtopic (Ex. Chilefood) Don’t use spaces or special characters
3. Type your first name and last initial on the new page and click ’save’
4. Go back to your country page and make a link to your personal page by clicking the ‘edit this page’ button and completing the following directions:
5. Write your topic and first name and last initial
6. Hightlight the information you want to link
7. Click on the insert link button (it looks like a chain)
8. Click on “Choose an existing page”
9. Find your page and select it
10. Save your wiki page

When you are finished with these steps, go back to your personal wiki page and insert your glogster poster on your page along with any other resources and links.

1. Go to your glogster poster and find and copy the “embed’ code
2. Go to your personal wiki page and click on ‘edit’
3. Click on the TV icon and scroll to the bottom where it says “other html”
4. paste code into box and click save
5. Make sure you save your entry and make sure your glogster poster shows up

Lastly, embed your project in your BLOG also. Make a new page (instead of a new post) and copy the code into the page in the ‘HTML’ tab just like you embedded your voki.

This week we will be concentrating on conjugating verbs. There will be a SHORT verb quiz DAILY starting Tuesday. You will be asked to conjugate 5 different verbs each day. Here is a website to help you practice. Please use the following instructions to sign up for the correct class. You will get 10 points Extra Credit if you sign up before Wednesday April 1.

4th hour Instructions 

5th hour instructions 

6th hour instructions

The assignments for this week are extra credit only but after spring break they will be mandatory!

You should also be working on your country project glogs. Your individual glog is due the first day after Spring Break.

In the lab you will be doing research on your country project topic(s) and entering the information in your google docs word document. To do this you will:

1. go to http://docs.google.com
2. Sign in using the username and password provided
3. Find your document and begin adding your notes.
4. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE INFORMATION
5. Make sure you put the website link for ALL information and pictures used in your final project

When you are finished researching your topic, you can start putting together your individual final project poster on www.glogster.com/edu . Use the username and password provided in class and the rubric as your guide to the requirements.

 Here are the lyrics and song GUAPO . Enjoy!

Also, here are some activities you can use to practice for the test on Friday.

Family -

http://www.quia.com/cm/92778.html?AP_rand=1638479749 

http://www.quia.com/cb/84240.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/402007.html

Possessive adjectives

http://www.quia.com/pop/78936.html?AP_rand=1126110578

http://www.quia.com/pop/36435.html?AP_rand=999339365 

Ch 5 General

http://www.quia.com/cb/206855.html 

http://www.quia.com/jg/1486079.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/1486080.html

http://www.quia.com/rr/226891.html 

Here is the project graphic organizer for you to print and complete. Remember the main topic is your topic are and the subtopics are questions you want to start trying to answer. The is meant to guide your research and then you will further narrow down your topic.

Here is the adjectives chart you can copy or print to add your new vocabulary to.

I am also including a few sample questions from the famous family relations sheet we did in class so you can use it as a guide for your extra credit questions. Remember use ’se llama’ for one person and ’se llaman’ for more than one. Also, “quien es” for 1 person and “quienes son” for more than one person.

¿Cómo se llama la hermana de Bart Simpson?

¿Cómo se llaman las hermanas de Marge Simpson?

¿Quién es la madre de Stewie?

¿Quiénes son las padres de Harry Potter?

Hasta luego!

Please follow these steps to get set up for our project research

1. Go to www.diigo.com and login with the username and password provided to you in class.
2. Follow instructions given to you in class to save the “Diigolet” tool
* If you do not remember how to do this click on the Diigo video tutorial 
3. Bookmark this Spanish 1 blog
4. Go to wikispaces.com 
5. Sign up as a wikispace user with the username and password provided to you in class
7. Type spanish1countryprojects2009 in the blank to add the wiki to your favorites so you can easily find it in the future.
6. Go to the Country projects wiki at http://www.spanish1countryprojects2009.wikispaces.com  
7. In the upper left corner click the button that says “join this wiki”
8. As soon as you are approved for membership you can access the country pages to see what group you are in.
9. Go back to the diigo website and start researching your country and bookmarking the websites to your country group.
*Make sure to “tag” the sites with what topics are available there.
10. You are responsible for bookmarking at least 5 websites that would be of use to your group.
11. By the end of class, you should have narrowed down what topics you may be interested in doing for your part of the project and recording your preferences on your page of the country projects wiki.

Please complete the following survey. Gracias!

 Hello,

Your assignment this week is to add pictures to your previous posts, check for errors and make corrections to previous posts, add pictures to your previous posts, and add an “about me” page called “Me llamo”

Watch this short video about adding pictures video that explains how to add pictures and create an “About Me” page. This “About me” post will be graded and is worth 25 points. It is due Friday 2/27.

Hola. Esta semana vamos a practicar más los verbos que terminan (that end) con -er y -ir. Por favor, ustedes necesitan conjugar y practicar los verbos. Ustedes van a presentar un examen el viernes y vamos a ir al salón de computacion (7-101) el miércoles.

Please check the calendar for the week’s homework assignments. The chapter 4 test is going to be on Friday.

 In the lab this week you can:

• Post your Ch 4 blogs
• Do this week’s blog comments
• Work on an extra credit presentation with animoto (see sample video below)
• Clean up you blog
• Change your message on your voki and repost

Hola,

Esta semana vamos a practicar verbos nuevos. Ustedes saben (know) los verbos regulares de -ar (hablar, nadar, etc.) Ahora van a aprender (learn) los verbos regulares de -er y -ir (comer, aprender, vivir, etc.) Miran el video…
The assignment calendar has been updated for the week. All assignments and quizzes for the week are listed. See “Spanish 1 Calendar” above to access it. Remember you can print it and bring it to class for extra credit.

Speaking of extra credit. Here is a great example for tener expressions! Gracias, Maci!

And click on this link to see another great presentation! Gracias Mackenzie!