Hello everybody!
Here's a cool little site to check out, and it is all for FREE, just like teachers like it. ChitChat is an educational network you can sign up for, create classes in, post online assignments, and much more. You really need to go to the site and watch their introductory video to know all that it does, but to review it specifically for foreign language, there are a few things I saw that I liked.
First of all, if you have a uber-conservative district like mine, it doesn't pay for services like Quia, which can be so valuable outside of the classroom. ChitChat helps alieviate this problem by offering a feature that allows you to create flashcards of your own content. The really cool thing is that it takes that content and creates different options for how the students can study: flashcard style, fill in the blank, and showing the answers for direct study. When students submit assignments online, there is a feature that allows you to embed comments directly into the parts of their text so that they can see where they have problems.
I am still playing around with this nifty little site, go take a look and post your comments about what you think and how it you could use it in your FLANG class!
Buen día,
Amy
