Joyce Valenza’s Neverending Search

I thought I’d share some of the media we’ve posted in the past couple of days.

George’s class got truly engaged in their Voice of Vocab podcasts. Much effort went into making these very short podcasts.

Interviews with these sometimes less-than-motivated students revealed that this assignment truly motivated them. They learned the technology and some of them emerged and functioned as clear leaders.  They wanted to be proud of the products they posted.  And, the students reported, they LEARNED those words!

It occurred to me that if others of you out there were also creating vocab podcasts, we could put them together as one big audio dictionary and study tool!

I also just posted the latest batch of our grammar learning objects. This semester’s student work includes:

• Prepositionitis
• Active vs. Passive Voice
• Run-ons and Fragments
• Verb Tense
• Expletive Expressions
• Participial Phrases

These videos join a group of other media lessons I’ve been planning with the media production class and the Language Arts Department. I will share these new additions at the faculty inservices next week and promote their use as tools for all our teachers.

Please feel free to give us feedback or use these yourselves!