National organization
One of the National organization that I am using is ACTFL. This organization is very helpful because it always bring out the latest on education. Teachers can share ideas and we all can talk as a community. The member ship is not free. My membership total is $49 per year.
The basic membership is $ 29.00, but I decided to add, Film $5.00, Heritage $5.00, SNS $0.00, Teacher $5.00, Culture $5.00. With this membership I get asses to the latest magazines, brochures, books, videos, films, and new ideas on teaching a foreign language. organization offer many helpful information in many different ways. FCTL uses many social medias such as Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTub, TalkRadio, and Facebook. This Social Medias are the most popular for ACTFL. ACTFL, also holds conferences. Yes, they are always having conferences, but they are very expensive. An example; the Convention and World world Language Expo at San Diego Center in San Diego California on October 28, 2015. the cost was $155.
State Level Educators
One of our state level education is Michigan Department of Education. There is no fee for being part of this organization. Michigan Department of Education is a great resource of information for teachers and the schools in general. offers information from the state curriculum to food and nutrients. Also, has information about grants, health, careers and college, news and publication, parent engagement and also library. They offer posters, folders, and brochures but a form needs to be filled first. There is a Library associated with Michigan Department of Education, where we can find many educational information. The organization offers conferences for free, low cost and at charge of 95 dollars per day. All depends what kind of the conference will be provided. As Early child special education most of them are free, and Culture of reading program. What I think was interesting and very helpful is that the organization even provides information about what it takes to become a teacher of any subject.
Here are the social media that the organization uses: Facebook, Twitter, YouTub, and Emails
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@learnspanish4lf: Spanish teacher -Olga it seems like she is very active on her profession because there is a lot of information about teaching Spanish. I notice also, that she has a very positive attitude, by posting a lot self help quotes.
https://www.facebook.com/claire.scislowicz Claire Jean is a Spanish teacher who fallows most of teachers that travel and have pictures from all over the world.
https://www.linkedin.com/title/spanish-teacher Maria Arenas Delgado is a Spanish teacher at Duibai International Academy. She follows most of people that are interested on politics.
@bellaale Allex Bellars is a Physical Educational Teacher and likes to have close contact and follows other people that are interested on sports, languages and also teachers with the same profession as him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LPYyiFUHDE Sonia Master is one of the co-founder of Barbara Spanish School residence.
@Laura_Faby Laura Venezuela is a Spanish teacher in a high school in Los Angeles County, California. She likes to fallow many resources about Hispanic culture, bands and music.
@edwardstanko Edward Stanko is a Spanish teacher in San Diego California and likes to fallow people that are interested on politics, sports and the same profession as he.
@mrsmaudlin Senora Maudlin is a spanish teacher at Akins High School and fallows lot of people with the same field including, people that are artistic and culture.
https://www.pinterest.com/srabertram/games-and-activities-for-spanish-class/
Pinterest board is a website where teachers get to share their ideas and games on Spanish lessons and teachers get to benefit from them.
@SraClouser Barbara Clouser is a Spanish teacher at Hershey, PA. She is very interested on the 21st century learning
@spanish4teacher Emilia Carrillo is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish speaking social media.
@mariafernandez Maria Fernandez is a Spanish teachers who follows Spanish teachers around the world. She is also interested on the politics
@senoraCMT Carrie Toth is a spanish teacher who follows people with same profession as hers she is also interested on world with news
@sraspanglish Laura sexton is a Spanish teacher who follows also Spoanish educators and looks like she is interested on latino/hispanic culture.
@snesbitt1972 is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish organizations and also is interested on sports.
@BurlingameTerry is a Spanish teacher who follows Sspanish teachers and is interested on politics and news.
@RonieWebster is a Spanish teachers who follows spanish teachers and also is interested on new and many different kind of podcasts
@placido Kristy Placido is a Spanish teacher who follows also Spanish teachers and also follows traveling organizations
@sonrisadelcampo Cynthia Hitz is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish teachers and organizations and also likes to follow sports
@sradana_cemes Sra Dana is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish teachers and she is interested on coffee and teas
@Sstaberry Christina Toro is a Spanish teacher who follows spanish educators and Spanish podcasts
@karacjacobs Kara Jocobs is a Spanish teacher who follows Spanish educators and mexican celebrities
@LangcerSpanish is a Spanish teachers who follows also Spanish teachers and people with many different professions as his.
@mrsmaudlin Senora Maudlin is a Spanish teacher who follows also Spanish teachers and and is interested in traveling, and art.
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http://kimcofino.com/blog/
Kim Cofino is a English and a ELL teacher. Her blog demonstrates that she is very active with what she does. It is all about learning and always finding ways to learn more by personal experience.
http://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com.es/
Synthia Hitz is a Spanish teacher who is very active on the profession. She has many resources for other teachers on her blog, and ideas about the hispanic culture
http://reflecciones-kj.blogspot.com/
Kara Jocob is a Spanish teachers. on her blog she has many information about the activities she does in her spanish class. She also shares videos that she uses with her students.
http://kplacido.com/
Kristy Placido shares many of her techniques she uses with her students. she uses videos and songs to get students engaged on the language.
http://blog.heartsforteaching.com/
Laurie Clarcq shares work form her students and ideas that she uses in class. she also comments on the students work.
http://www.lesliedavison.com/lesliedavison/blog/
Leslie Davison she also shares ideas, about teaching spanish. Her blog contains many pictures and videos that she has used during her teaching experiences
http://optimizingimmersion.com/
Mike Coxon is a spanish educator who shares some of his ideas and gives a lot of resources for other teachers. His blog is filled with articles and work that he does with his class
http://profesoranonimo.blogspot.com/
Señor Jordan is a Spanish teachers, he has a lot of useful information for Spanish teachers. He has educational resources that contains games, stories, and other fun activities for students
https://senorabas.wordpress.com/
Erin Bas has many stories and videos on his blog. He has share what he has done with students in his classroom.
http://martinabex.com/
Martina Bex is a Spanish teacher who has her blog fill with lot different resources to help teaches. She also has lot of articles on how to improve teaching and help students to have a better understanding
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How I would use a blog tool to on my future classroom? Well, I do not have any experiences on using technology, but I think this tool is very helpful. At the beginning when I was asked to open a blog account I had no idea how was going to work. Now that I have being following the instructions of my technology professor is becoming fun and helpful. Now I am curious what is coming next. To be onest, on my future class I will use a blog with my students too. It would be very helpful to communicate, share work, answers, videos, also I could share other information about our lessons activities. First I would have to guide the students on how to open a blog if they do not know yet, than basically do same thing that I am doing with my technology teacher. It is awesome that I can share videos right from you-tub if I want them to watch an specific video. I also can create a schedule for everyone can stay on track of everything. The most important for the use of a blog is to share work, answer questions, students get to comment on posts freely with out feeling shy, and also I can post students fun activities for them to share with their families. all this info will be locked; teacher and students can get accesses to it only.




ReplyDeleteRegarding your last sentence, yes, you do need to consider student safety. Make sure that you choose the right service as well as make sure you utilize the blog correctly. That is, you need to have a compelling argument for using the blogs. If you just have them write about things and not communicate with one another, choose a different medium.