VocabGrabber by my niece.

In this example of VocabGrabber I used what Jasmine used in her homework assignment. I am doing my best to think outside of the box in finding tools that will allow for Spanish characters. I am not a teacher but I using my niece as an example I believe works out great. Here is the link below of her example in VocabGrabber.


http://screencast.com/t/14RcMp0d

VocabGrabber not a Great Grabber!

In module 4 I was supposed to find an innovative and creative tool for my Spanish class of the future. I struck out again! This tool is called VocabGrabber it is a great tool for an English class but it is not useful in a Spanish class. The only word that it acknowledged was San Juan because it is the name of the capital of Puerto Rico. I have added a link to an example of the text that I copied and pasted to VocabGrabber in Spanish.

http://screencast.com/t/uvCVfdZXh

I am not saying that this innovative tool is not great for an other class that is in English. IT IS FANTASTIC! The link below is for VocabGrabber in English it is a great tool for any class that needs clarification in vocabulary.

http://screencast.com/t/G4Ib6lsrW

I hope that with this posting it will assist anyone who is looking for a new vocabulary tool.

Penzu in Theory is ok!

I choose Penzu thinking that I could use it in my future Spanish classes and was highly disappointed. My assignment was to create an actual assignment for Module 2 but I can not. I am currently not a teacher but I can say that if I have an English class then I would use Penzu as the application students would use for their daily journal activity.

Penzu.com Just Busted my Bubble!

My second assignment for my Design Online Class is to review a Web 2.0 communication tool. I was almost beside myself with excitement when I found www.penzu.com. I have been wondering how could I integrate an electronic journal application into my Spanish class in the near future. I said to myself "I could have a computer section in my classroom with 4 or 5 workstations where the students could come in and privately write anything into their journals". Then I saw that on Penzu it had an option to print it out I became even more excited. I thought that the class could print it out at the end of the year and keep it forever. This journal would not only full fill their writing area of their grade it would also be something that they may take pride in. 
But my bubble was completely busted when I started typing in Spanish and I realized that Penzu is only programmed for English. This application automatically has a word count log, spell check, and it is free! Of course anyone could pay $14.95 for the Penzu Pro but it really doesn't add that much variety in my opinion. 

I have a link below where you can see where I started my first journal entry in both English and Spanish you will clearly see within just a few words in Spanish it has a wiggly red line below it for spell check. I will have no problem using this for my English classroom but for my Spanish classroom I will have to find another 

http://screencast.com/t/vhkiNpiBxr8




If anyone knows about a Spanish online journal application please let me know.