Bonjour!
Today’s video (my sixth so far) will go over French words that sound really similar to English words!
The list of words I cover:
age, author, check, hotel, memory, music, ordinary, paper
Enjoy!
French and Stuff Round 5
Bonjour!
Comment allez-vous?
Today I am covering these four sayings in French:
- August 4th (my birthday)
- What are you doing?
- Where do you live?
- It’s warm
Enjoy!
Teaching Autistic Children
I was recently part of a group that researched various topics surrounding autistic children’s education. In this project, we go into what autism looks like, similar disabilities to autism, strategies for teaching autistic children, technology and apps that can better support autistic students, stories of autistic children, online and community resources related to autism. This is a wiki page with tons of great information! Make sure you check it out: http://autism400.wikispaces.com/
http://www.educateautism.com/free-materials-and-downloads.html – this link is on the resource page. I will single it out here because there are various print ready work sheets available ranging from: body parts, numbers, letters, words and shapes. These work sheets are good for ALL children but specifically pertain to many autistic children’s needs.
Introducing French Video #4
According to someone who is French, my accent is awful but hey! take a look and see how awful it is for yourself. Maybe you’ll learn a colour or two!
In this segment I learn:
How to say: ‘what,’ ‘why,’ green,’ ‘blue,’ ‘hello/goodbye,’ ‘Wednesday,’ ‘Thursday’
FACEBOOK CONCERN!
Hey Fellow Bloggers! Slightly related to our ecmp 355 chat from yesterday, I found out some very strange news about my Facebook account. I was planning on making a blog post about using social media back when I was a high school student compared to using social media now. I began exploring my timeline for some examples. I was scrolling down from 2008 and 2007 and was finding myself quite confused… Here is a picture that might give you a clue as to why:
WALL POSTS!? I DON’T THINK SO!
I apologize for not being able to make this more clear, I can’t seem to figure out how but this is a description:
My ‘Timeline’ (which the arrow at the top is pointing at) seems to show private conversations instead of wall posts in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009. The conversation that is happening here is a prime example of why this got me thinking this way. The guy I am conversing with and I are talking about what happened on the weekend and he is asking me how life is treating me… both would be strange posts on one’s wall (at least for me). I began reading more carefully at other ‘wall posts’ and than was certain that they were not posts, that they were indeed private messages.
Looking more into this, I found this article online:
The Headline is “Despite statements from Facebook to the contrary, users are still claiming to see private messages in their Timelines.”
This is only one of many articles on the subject. Apparently (from what I have read) some Facebook users’ private messages in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 show up on their timeline. HOW SCARY IS THAT!?
I immediately wanted to share this with you ECMP 355er’s so you can check out your Timelines and see if there is something you may have to fix! Maybe some of you are already familiar with this problem because it was noticed in 2012 but incase you didn’t, you know now!
OH! and some of you may wonder what the other arrow is pointing at… it is indeed me receiving a wedgie and was too funny not to point out.
Learning French #3!
Check out the third video of my journey to learning French! I can’t believe how difficult it is to learn another language. I feel so unmotivated to learn the rules to the language and learn tense, past tense, ext. I seem to retreat to learning more simplistic sentences and words and try to make easy sentences out of them. I continue to battle it out though! Here it is!
Are YOU Teaching About Government!?
I taught a Government unit to grade 5’s and this video was SUPER handy. It teaches the responsibilities of Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments. This video is catchy and kids just BEGGED to watch it. When it came to testing, this was their strongest section. I have a feeling this video helped with that! Give it a watch 😀
Justice Sinclair Preaching to the Choir!
Being able to listen to a Justice Sinclair speech was a great experience! What an interesting man he is. He raised awareness of First Nations people in Saskatchewan. Being from the “North” (not really the North but people tend to classify Prince Albert as the North) I grew up in a 50/50 White to First Nation school (approx.). Given this experience, I feel strongly about the Government setting up support for First Nations people. Also, the movement in Saskatchewan Curriculum is to incorporate First Nations and treaty content. This is a great movement that is much needed! However, like Justice Sinclair implied, this is a challenge because there is a resistance to learn and educate on First Nations an Treaty education. Being White, and being in a position of authority (as in being a teacher) I have a great opportunity to bring awareness to this education.
I recently interviewed with the Prince Albert Catholic division. The division has two high schools. I was told by the Superintendent that one of those high schools graduated the most First Nations students in Saskatchewan! The school division is focusing on how to incorporate First Nations content. I say this in relation to Justice Sinclair because this is a man who we can learn valuable lessons from that we can in turn, use to help us as teachers. His tweet above is a short message that stands for a big issue.
What’s Life All About?
Photo post by @BigDreamer0323.
Source: What’s Life All About?
I think this is such a unique quote. One that gets a person thinking. It is to often that we get down on ourselves because we don’t know who we are. Or we are having troubles with figuring out the complicated things in our lives. But that should be the beauty of life! The experiences we have should help create us, not just fit ‘who we are.’ We are so many things because as we grow and experience new things, we expose ourselves to all these good, bad, funny, sad, and so on experiences. Don’t settle for being found. Continue to create.
Look at me all French and Stuff!
This is video #2 of my learning project. In the first video I showed you what French I knew. This is now a few weeks later. I didn’t mention everything I have learned but this is most of it! I am excited to keep making progress.
Cole Puetz 