ADA Compliance

I just went to FLANC this weekend and presented on becoming ADA compliant, a pressing issue in the online/hybrid foreign language classroom. Here are the links to my prezis.
ADA compliance, the main presentation.
How to become ADA compliant, what we need to do in the classroom
ADA compliant, how to make closed captions
ADA compliant, making sure we are using the right colors

Some of my students today were talking about studying for Spanish on their own. There are so many YouTube sites out there that I don't think you need to buy additional software. I have listed some in my previous posts--Senor Jordan and Senor Belles. All you really need to best utilize their sites is a list of grammar concepts and an order in which to study them. below you will find a list I took from Arriba, the textbook we use in class. This list should help you navigate the YouTube sites and tackle the various grammar concepts one at a time.

	Where do the accent marks go?

 

Here are two links that can help you will accent marks. The first takes you to studyspanish.com. Here you can see the rules that explain when to add a written accent to your word. StudySpanish.com: accent marks (opens in external link). The second takes you to Señor Belles. In this video he teaches you to hear where accent marks should be written. SeñorBelles: accent marks (opens in YouTube).

Want to learn Spanish online?

I just found another site that might help you all with studying Spanish Grammar. If you have trouble with a Spanish grammar concept, you might want to check out senorbelles. Hope this helps :).

How to study for an online/hybrid class

After speaking with my students last semester, I thought it might be wise to give you all a plan for attacking the course. I have one face-to-face class this semester, but the rest of you are in a hybrid or an online class. For my online and hybrid classes, I assign all of your work for the week at one time. For all of you except for one class, your work is due on Thursday. My guess is that most of you will leave all of this work to complete for Wednesday. This is not a good plan. I have made videos of all of the lessons that I teach. All of these videos are made available to you all in Moodle. For my hybrid classes, I will go over this material in class whenever we meet. However, because of your schedules, you may not want to wait until a class meeting to get started on our work for the week. Therefore, I would advise that you all look at the videos on Saturday. I would then suggest that you start trying to complete assigned work on Sunday. If you run into trouble, there are other tutorials created by Pearson that I have uploaded to your Mylanguagelabs site. You might then want to look over these as well. I would then continue to work on your assignments, trying to complete them by Monday. I would leave Tuesdays and Wednesdays free for completing graded assignments--essays, orals, tests, and quizzes.