This past Saturday 10/3 the AZLA fall conference was held at Glendale Community College. I had the honor of being one of the presenters and I shared many resources gathered from the DENNI. My session earned the title “Best of Arizona” and I will now be attending and presenting at the SWCOLT Conference in New Mexico in April of 2010. The presentation focused on the use of Digital Storytelling in a World Language classroom.

Thank you to all of the DEN members who help to share and spread the word of technology integration!

What an absolutely amazing opportunity for teachers and students! I am excited to even have been able to speak with someone about it.

In past years I have been able to travel to Spain and Italy with students. It has always been fun to bring back pictures and share them with the students. This year I tried something different and I placed all of our pictures online so that students and I could comment on them/about them. It helped to carry our conversations on well past our return date. I also had the chance to create digital movies out of the still images and put them to music. Of course I selected music from the region. The students did the same! It was a fun and great way to answer the age old question what did you do this past summer.