Day 17

Tuesday, June 27, 2017


Infographic with Piktochart was the first item of the day.
We practiced together and then we created an infographic using 3 tables of data from our Canvas Module for today. Here is the first page of mine. I did manage to make two graphs showing that printed newspapers are declining in use and digital newspapers are increasing in use. However, there is still a much greater circulation of printed newspaper than online subscriptions.


Next, we created an introduction with sound in Adobe Spark. To do this - select add 'VIDEO' and begin. I made mine about Google translate, i.e., it's not a reliable option for sharing meaning between languages. I included a sample video from 'Google Translate Sings' in which 'I came in like a wrecking ball' is translated as 'I like the ball in the sink.'   https://youtu.be/zS-Gi5Z5zik .  I suggest that my students open Google Translate and type in a familiar chorus or short poem/ riddle. They should translate the text to another language, then another, then another and back to English. Through this process it is obvious that meaning gets lost in the translation. By the way, this is also evident at Amazon.com when you look at the product descriptions of items made in other countries.

Adobe Spark is my new best friend for creating banners and collages. Ruth created a great banner for our WebQuest. We searched and searched and never found a good image to represent sports in Spanish-speaking countries. This afternoon I created a few banners for my Weebly site (Online Portfolio) in Adobe Spark. It makes me happy to personalize my pages rather than picking whatever is available from Google Images.

We had a presentation about using Prezi. I think it is neat. My issue is that it's hard to print and grade. Usually I have to mark language and grammar errors. It is very difficult in Prezi. Still, students like to use it because the presentations have a great deal of movement.

In the afternoon we worked on Weebly's and tried to catch up on missing assignments. It is nice to have Canvas. I can check to see if all of my assignments are turned in. Also, Dr. Lee has posted various sample Portfolios, including his own so we can check to see if we have everything included. I know that I have to work on my lesson plan tomorrow.

Hasta luego.