What a week!
Wow!. What a week it was at the
Apple Distinguished Educators Institute. I was part of a
language project that forced me to learn the Google KML markup
language in just a couple of hours. I am impressed with the
project. A lot of hard work by the group and I think we turned out
a great project. The project Welcome to My Backyard, has a
student collect world language samples (notice not foreign) of
phrases that can reflect on the cultural heiratige of the speaker.
The student then can place the phrases, a link to the audio sample
in a Google Earth placemark. What you have then, is world tour of
languages and cultures and hopfully a better appreciation of those
friends, neighbors and family that can speak more than one
language.
The project will soon be published on Apple's hosting site, Apple Learning Interchange. This site is an interesting site. It is a social networking site for educators that allows for teachers to present material that for class lessons and more. It is also a way for higher ed to showcase research, campus projects and more. Take the time and give it a look.
mjl
The project will soon be published on Apple's hosting site, Apple Learning Interchange. This site is an interesting site. It is a social networking site for educators that allows for teachers to present material that for class lessons and more. It is also a way for higher ed to showcase research, campus projects and more. Take the time and give it a look.
mjl