This is great! Another addition would be to have students look at a transcription of short parts of the video (or the whole thing if someone had that kind of time ;) for literacy. *For those of you at Bootcamp, the literacy activity would also be a neat way to incorporate movement and text. I just attended a Conference on brain research where it talked about two very important things in learning: 1. aerobic movement and 2. information entering the brain in different ways. As many different ways as possible that we can expose our students to the information (seeing-visuals & text, hearing, manipulatives, kinesthetic, etc.) the better for their learning and understanding. I would love to hear what other ideas teachers have about incorporating authentic resources (texts, videos, etc.) at ALL levels in an organic way in class. It's great how your ideas are feeding off of each other as well! Awesome! Darcy Rogers Organic World Language (OWL) Phone: 541.601.4509 Fax: 541.776.4099 Website: olaed.com Facebook: tinyurl.com/organic-language-facebook ________________________________ De: Emily Gerstner <emilygerstner@xxxxxxxxx> Para: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Enviado: Lunes, 30 de septiembre, 2013 12:56 P.M. Asunto: [ola] Texting and driving lesson Happy Monday! I am always looking for ways to incorporate videos and authentic resources in my classroom, and I love this PSA about texting and driving from AT&T:https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=oAH_mQVuLPo Tomorrow in Spanish III, we are going to watch the video 2 or 3 times through and discuss familiar and key vocab words, then I am going to have pairs come up with lists of "Actividades que no se debe hacer a la vez." This idea came from an idea that someone had posted on the listserv about listing things that do or don't go together, so a shout out to you, whoever you are! Then, I will have each student create a PSA poster that roughly follows the format of the video, using their favorite pair of activities that don't go together. For example, "Correr y usar tijeras a la vez es peligroso. Puede esperar." Something I'm working on in my planning is what kinds of activities work best to accompany videos and authentic resources... if folks have feedback on tomorrow's lesson plan or what you do in your classes when interacting with these kinds of resources, I would love to hear it! Cuidense, Emily -- Emily Gerstner Teacher, Spanish II & III Parma Community High School (781) 258-4530 emilygerstner@xxxxxxxxx