Wow, I really took a step backwards on the whole keeping my blog updated thing. You'll have to forgive me, I was really busy. Yesterday, you see, I had my first class. I spent about 8 hours working on making an interactive slide show presentation that would serve to present information and be a form to practice and review information--both within the classroom and for the students in their homes.
The slidshow content was basic: numbers, letters, and colors. But I worked hard to make it interactive and usable. I included simple explanations of topics and practice information on how its useful. Then, to help them study on their own I included review information and recordings of almost everything. They can hear recordings of every number, letter, and word they will need, including short interactions such asking for one's name or telephone number.
My brother-in-law has been talking a lot about making his own open source book to help teachers in poorer latina american contexts teach english more effectively. I really think I'd like to help with that. Almost all of the content on my first effort was open source. And I could easily make the effort to refine that for the future.
In short, I'm working an happy. And--more importantly--so are the students. They told me they were happy and they had obviously made progress and had fun. The student who helped organize the whole effort said she thinks after this a lot more students will want to join. Which also means, I could be making a good amount of money from this exercise.
I just hope I get a little faster at making these things :0)
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