Techno Savvy Senora

It’s Been So Long Since Last We Met….

Alexa Flores-Hull — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:48:16 +0000

It seems like forever since last we had the chance to talk and I take full blame for that! In the past few months I have been exploring the world of technology integration, using Discovery Education Streaming and all of the amazing tools as well as completing my Master’s Degree from Northern Arizona University!

I can honestly say that it was because of the Discovery Educator Network National Institute that I found the inspiration for my capstone project. Please visit my project and let me know what you think!

World Language Technology Integration

My classes this past semester began using wikispaces, Google Docs and most recently Xtranormal.com for some amazing digital storytelling in Spanish.

DEN Fall Virtual Conference

Alexa Flores-Hull — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:09:36 +0000

What a great way to spend Saturday morning! The DEN Fall Virtual Conference is in session and will also be archived. Currently Thinking Outside of the Slide is running.

Arizona Language Association Fall Conference

Alexa Flores-Hull — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:29:08 +0000

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!

Loving Google

Alexa Flores-Hull — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:37:17 +0000

After attending the DEN National Institute I was really excited to try out Google Docs not only with my co-workers but with my students as well. I am a BIG fan! The students are all really excited about the collaboration that they are able to do on projects and the faculty love the ease of use. I had a Google Page webpage last year but I switched to Google Sites and it is super easy to integrate Google Docs within this site.

As a Spanish teacher I am always curious to see if accent marks and punctuation are supported and they are in Google Docs which is an added bonus.

Time lapse video DEN NI

Alexa Flores-Hull — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:12:41 +0000

Awesome time lapse video that Tim made of the trip to DEN NI.

Example of video created using Animoto

Alexa Flores-Hull — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:14:18 +0000

DENNI Resources

Alexa Flores-Hull — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:04:37 +0000

After an amazing experience last week in San Francisco attending the DEN National Institute we have all begun to compile the resources gathered and shared. Jen Dorman’s DEN Blog has an amazing collection of items. We have also begun to post things to MediaShare within the Educator Resources at the DEN site. Don’t forget to look for the DEN Diigo group, DEN on facebook and twitter!

Here is a great list that Jen Dorman provided for us at one of the sessions last week.

DENNI – Digital Storytelling Tips

Alexa Flores-Hull — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:12:51 +0000

Listening to Hall Davidson give awesome tips about digital storytellilng. There are lots of awesome web 2.0 tools. For example just do screen captures of Google Earth and use those within your movies!

Ideas for Spanish Class

Alexa Flores-Hull — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:16:47 +0000

The virtual conference this past weekend was awesome! I gathered lots of info and found news ways to incorporate tech into my Spanish classes (this idea could really be used with any language class).

Many Spanish classes begin each school year with a review of “Who are you?” and students are asked to create posters sharing things about themselves with their classmates. In recent years, I had asked the students to create picture collages using MS Word or MS PowerPoint. The students create visuals and then use the visual as an aid while they present to the class in the target language.

After hearing about some of the awesome sites from the Virtual Conference next year I am going to ask my students to create their posters about themselves using Glogster. I think not only with this create a renewed sense of enthusiasm for the project but now I am able to take all of the URLs from their digital posters and create a website or blog or giant Glogster that links to all of the individual pages.

Give it a try the site is awesome!

National Conference!

Alexa Flores-Hull — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:16:01 +0000

I am beyond excited to be able to join everyone at the national conference this summer. =)