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The link above will take you to a PowerPoint Webquest on Karneval in Koeln. It was a lot of fun to create, though also a fair amount of work. It’s designed to be used at different levels with resources in English and German. Students working on this can seek information at a level they are comfortable with and a speed that is their own. Work at an appropriate level is required by the expectations set in the project assessment rubric at the end. This is my first webquest and I feel that it could successfully be used in a German classroom and that it could be helpful to German teachers who are teaching several levels of German and have to complete numerous preps each day, but would like to take the time to expose all of their students to this important cultural event. Two drawbacks of this Webquest is that assessment is currently set up for students to complete the assignment on their own and that each student giving a presentation on the same topic might get dull. I have chosen to upload this webquest in an adaptable format so that this could be altered to fit particular classroom and learning needs. Some easy changes that would remove the drawbacks would be to have students work in pairs or small groups or to have then work on different portions of the task. I have also thought of this as being part of a set of webquests on German holidays that might all be done at the same time with a group of students working on each and then reporting to the class. This could give students the opportunities to become experts on a particular holiday in a particular German city.
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This is a link to a short webliography I created featuring online resources for learning German. These resources could be used either to learn German on your own or to support learning in a German classroom. As a foreign language (FL)teacher candidate I have been collecting a lot of links for FL learners and teachers. Often I simply add them to my favorites, where there are getting to be so many that it can be hard to find what I want or remember what each is. Also my favorites can only be reached from my laptop. In creating this webliography I looked for sources that would support learning at different levels and cover a wide variety of German FL learning needs. I think that a webliography like this can be handy as it offers not only links, but a bit of information about what each is and how it can be used, which saves time in searching through pages of links.
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“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”~Socrates
Hi, I’m currently a grad student at SUNY Oswego in the MSEd. program for German 7-12 and I think that Socrates makes a very important distinction. It’s part of what draws me to become a teacher. I love learning, I love language and I’d like to share those loves with young people. If you’d like to know a little about why I want to be a teacher, what I have to offer as a teacher and my goals please follow the following links:
My Biography(277KB)
My Resume(66KB)
Visiting the Reichstag July 2009
