Information+for+week+2+(January+18,+2010)

Week 2
Notes: This week's class was really fantastic. **Richard Grignon** came in to show us how to use **Google Docs** (which I didn't even know existed). We started our class with a **"clicker" tutorial.** Everyone in class got a little remote and answered questions from the screen in front. After each question, we got to see the real answer and a graph that showed how many people picked the different multiple choice options.

I later discussed with my partner, Jenny, how we could possibly use this technology with a **French as a Second Language** course. We came up with a neat idea that is based on a lesson I used during my practicum. I was teaching my grade 10 Core French class the conditional tense and after they learned it, I asked them to make "would you rather..." questions, using that tense. The sentences they invented were really funny (e.g.: Would you rather eat a moldy hot dog or sleep beside a dead body?). We thought it would be fun to use the clickers to have everybody answer to the questions and we could then see a graph of how many people chose which strange answer. I think the students would have tons of fun with it. We contemplated using the clickers for our presentation in class, but it was going to be too much of a hassle to reserve a huge number of them for class, from a high school somewhere, so we're going to see if we can use the Google Forms application to graph answers and have a survey going around the class.

After the clickers activity we worked with the Google Docs applications and spent the rest of the period making slide shows, surveys and adding lines to a limerick. I learned a lot this class and am excited to implement these new techniques into my day to day teaching.

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