Improve student learning through teacher’s decisions and technology – harry.g.tuttle at gmail
Do you creative negative stereotypes by showing outdated pictures or by showing a picture representing only a small portion of the of people or things from other countries?
My book, Formative Assessment: Responding to Your Students, is available through Eye on Education.
Also, my book, Successful Student Writing Through Formative Assessment, is available through Eye on Education.
When we apply critical thinking to how we use images/photos/flickr in Web 2.0, we can assess how well our students communicate.
The following rubric applies the “Universal Intellectual Standards” by Linda Elder and and Richard Paul which was modified by Gerald Noisch in his Learning to Think Things Through.
In my English class I was reviewing basic paragraph writing. I found that of 66 students (3 classes), only two students had had a visual way to remember what goes in a paragraph. One had a snowman analogy and one had a hamburger analogy. When I introduced them to the hand analogy, one student commented that her teachers did not give her visuals of writing.
The visual act as a scaffold to guide the students as they write. In addition, they can self-check themselves by using the visual.
How do you visualize the critical information in your course in a visual only (no-text) manner to help all students to learn?
I have been taking some pictures of the class textbook so that I can project the image and then mark it up. I copy a speech and then we go through and identify how the speaker has introduced, given evidence, and concluded. Yesterday we went through an information speech and the students focused on every mention of an expert (person, book, or professional organization) to show that the speech has been built on facts. It took me about three minutes to take the pictures, move them over to my computer, do a simply crop, and save as a .gif file to put into the PowerPoint. It is a simple technique if you do not have a document camera, if you do not have a scanner, and if you are too lazy to retype the whole three page entry.
Share these with your Spanish teachers so they can promote language use through talking and writing about hispanic schools through flickr images.
Ninos a la salida de la escuela Punta Cana. Republica Dominicana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/burtonez/273321085/
la Escuela de Lenguaje en Las Palmas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortensia/186009195/
Escuela de Flamenco, Cordoba, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barthelomaus/129380157/
escuela de uros, Lake Titicaca ,Peru
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28148072@N00/73302011/
Escuela Rural, Republica Dominicana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/74820634/
Estudiantes en la calle, San fermines, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/888581808/
escuela lic. “francisco aranda” Avenida Cedeño. San Juan de los Morros. Estado Guárico. Venezuela.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xolkan/1294975980/
Escuela D190 12/2004, La Florida, Santiago, Chile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monky/353105663/
Escuela D190 12/2004 La Florida, Santiago, Chile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monky/353768937/
Educación autónoma y popular! Muro de la Escuela Autónoma Rebelde Zapatista en la comunidad de San Juan de la Libertad. Chiapas, Mexico
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joserevueltas/576088432/
Revista de Gimnasia Escuela N.o 3, Ovallito, Chile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ovallito/45500626/
Deportes – Please share with your Spanish teacher so he/she can have a source of pictures for classroom conversations about sports. Can the students ask 10 questions about the picture? Pretend to be someone in the picture describing what she/he is doing? Have two people in the picture having a discussion about what they are doing. Tell what was, is and will happen.
How will the teacher assess the students? How will the teacher give formative feedback to the students so that they can improve?
Marathon -Barcelona, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fibercool/410396747/
Volibol – Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_alby2_/250976891/
Boats – puerto madero, Argentina
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johannrela/678281616/
ejercicio por bicicleta – Sevilla, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jom_tijola/536943658/
futbol – Pamplona, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hireen/400098788/
ciclismo, bicicletas – Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/soschilds/392414303/
Palacio de los deportes de Madrid, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/legumvra/1561180229/
Saltar del puente – Venezuela
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmaldona/1105674787/
Correr – Nike10K
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmundaca/295897139/
Un ganador -sign Nogales, Mexico
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/557232735/
Tienda de futbol -Madrid, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/villamota/52203130/
Kayak Race – Sevilla, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/z1on0110/846962635/
baloncesto – Madrid, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vedia/103118224/
patinaje agresivo -Madrid, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzeleyd/1332655046/
Other Spanish (Hispanic images) for conversations or writing
Spanish streets – Calle
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/spanish-street-callescenes-photos-from-flickr/
Spanish sports –Deporte
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/spanish-sport-deporte-pictures-from-flickr-for-student-conversations/
Spanish transportation Transportes
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/spanish-language-transportes-transportations-from-various-hispanic-countries/
Spanish restaurant Restaurante
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/restaurant-pictures-from-flickr-for-spanish-and-other-language-conversations/
Spanish Language Menu
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/learning-hispanic-culture-through-spanish-language-menus/
If you have other flickr Spanish sports images to add, please put them in a comment.
If you have ideas you would like to share about the problems that students have in being fluent speakers and, if possible, the possible solutions, please add as a comment. For example, some students can not keep a conversation focused on the topic – a solution is to start them with a series of pictures about the topic or for them to focus on a specific problem such as an ordering problem in a restaurant.
As a Spanish teacher you can use the following Flickr images to show your students the variety of transportation in Spanish speaking countries. These images also provide great speaking and writing opportunities. If you do not teach Spanish, please share with your Spanish teacher. Gracias.
El tranvia -Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91324818@N00/802535625
Transporte popular – Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hectorgarcia/512839552/
Transporte publico 2 Tijuana, Mexico
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rupertrocks/298421839/
Transporte ecologista-Malecón, Centro Habana, Cuba
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43732446@N00/119137013/
Transporte – aeropuerto, Madrid, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/517876985/
Transporte – Parque Tezozomoc, Azcapotzalco. Mexico
http://www.flickr.com/photos/subzonica/170853679/
Transporte publico taxco-Mexico
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinitamateur/74845493/
Transporte publico -Monterrey, Mexico
http://www.flickr.com/photos/renguerra/4805782/
Servicio de bicicletas – Sevilla, Espana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/torchondo/876183183/
El transporte -Habana, Cuba
http://www.flickr.com/photos/renguerra/4805782/
Medio de transporte-izabal, Guatemala
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cvander/8661198/
Imagen -transporte Valparaiso, Chile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjohnsonh/354884357/
What other flickr images have you found for Hispanic transportation?
Other Spanish (Hispanic images) for conversations or writing
Spanish streets – Calle
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/spanish-street-callescenes-photos-from-flickr/
Spanish sports –Deporte
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/spanish-sport-deporte-pictures-from-flickr-for-student-conversations/
Spanish restaurant Restaurante
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/restaurant-pictures-from-flickr-for-spanish-and-other-language-conversations/
Spanish Language Menu
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/learning-hispanic-culture-through-spanish-language-menus/
Developing the listening skill through using images (pictures)
One student describes a picture orally to a partner. When the first person is done, the partner repeats the description, using the picture as an aid for recall.
One student orally describes the picture to another student who does not see it; the second student then repeats the description to the first student.
Two students look at a picture; then one student looks away while the other student asks him questions about it.
One student orally describes a picture to a second student who does not see it; the second student then draws a copy of it.
One student orally describes a picture to another student who then is given a choice of three pictures and must choose the one described.
One student describes a person or an object in the picture and the other student identifies which person or object it is.
While both students look at the picture, one students describes a person or an object in about five to ten sentences and includes one or two incorrect things about it. The second students has to tell what was wrong and correct it.
The first student says ten sentences about the picture and then the partner says ten different sentences. The first student listens for an duplicate sentences.
I would assign students to get several pictures from the Internet (Flickr) on a specific topic such as restaurant, city, house, etc. so that they can share the pictures (URLs) with me and print out the pictures for work with their partners. As a teacher, I can quickly build up my digital visual library for listening.
©Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007
Revised from Harry Grover Tuttle’s “Using Visual Material in the Foreign Language Classroom”, Learning Resources, Vol 2-5 (Feb. 1975) 9-13.
Other Spanish (Hispanic images) for conversations or writing
Spanish streets – Calle
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/spanish-street-callescenes-photos-from-flickr/
Spanish sports –Deporte
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/spanish-sport-deporte-pictures-from-flickr-for-student-conversations/
Spanish transportation Transportes
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/spanish-language-transportes-transportations-from-various-hispanic-countries/
Spanish restaurant Restaurante
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/restaurant-pictures-from-flickr-for-spanish-and-other-language-conversations/
Spanish Language Menu
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/learning-hispanic-culture-through-spanish-language-menus/
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The following is a list of Collective Commons (free to use in the classroom) pictures from Flickr that show various menus from Hispanic countries or locations that have Hispanic food. Students studying Spanish can come to understand the many different types of foods as well as the varieties within each type such as tacos. They can practice their ordering skills with real food and figure out their bill with real prices! Each web address is followed by a brief description.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robennals/499187153/
Menu with Spanish and poor English translation +++
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shyamh/148106511/
Menu Mexican divided by entrada, sopa, ensalada +++
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flooznyc/430646028/
Mexican Food Deli Menu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melaniewong/1155561698/
Yucatan Menu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/esotheos/208495024/
Taco restaurant menu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgabriel/514239426/
Menu with ceviche
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seyd/10746077/
Menu from Caribbean
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anjum/368254807/
Puerto Rican Menu (general info)
How do you help students to learn about the variety of Hispanic foods through menus? How do you bring the Hispanic world into your classroom through technology?
Other Spanish (Hispanic images) for conversations or writing
Spanish streets – Calle
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/spanish-street-callescenes-photos-from-flickr/
Spanish sports –Deporte
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/spanish-sport-deporte-pictures-from-flickr-for-student-conversations/
Spanish transportation Transportes
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/spanish-language-transportes-transportations-from-various-hispanic-countries/
Spanish Language Menu
https://eduwithtechn.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/learning-hispanic-culture-through-spanish-language-menus/
Nov. 2009 – If you are interested in trying out in your classroom some mini-speaking assessments (2-5) minutes that correspond to various parts of the ACTFL guidelines, please email me (harry.g.tuttle at gmail) These short assessments give you instant data/facts on your students’ present progress in speaking and you can re-administer these assessments to see progress. I have various assessments from vocabulary, asking and answering questions, asking critical questions about a topic, etc. Let me know your level such as (Spanish 1- first year of Spanish). Harry
© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007
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I see a digital camera as a required technology for every educator. I think that educators enjoy simply tools- tools that help promote students’ higher-level standards-based learning and tools that do what we want when we want without a lot of complication.
With it, we and our students can
-take still images that represent stages of learning in a process. Most cameras allow you to take low resolution images which work great for most classroom and web projects. If you take at the lowest resolution, then probably you do not have to use a third party program to get “small memory” images.
-make movies for our class or for other classes using YouTube. Many cameras can directly upload to YouTube type programs. For example, mine records in .mov. Check your camera manual for the format of your movies.
-do audio recording for podcasts, collecting oral interviews, recording language experiences.
Simple technologies can help our students in powerful learning.
How else do you use a digital camera to help promote students’ higher-level standards-based learning?
© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007
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