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Posted onDecember 15, 2024December 16, 2024 authentic resources, authres, Canva, crepes, cuisine, culture, dining, featured, food, french culture, video, youtube

My Favorite Cultural Resources for Food and Meal-Taking

It seems I have an abundance of cultural resources that I use when introducing my students to food and meal-taking in French. In this post, […] Read More

Posted onAugust 28, 2023August 28, 2023 advocacy, authentic resources, authres, Canvas discussions, featured, independent exploration, movies, music, national french week, video

Pourquoi le français ?

Note: this is an update of a post I originally published in 2013. Click here to read the original post. While many of you reading […] Read More

Posted onAugust 31, 2022September 12, 2022 authentic resources, authres, Canva, edtech, featured, independent exploration, Media, video, youtube

How to Create Your Own Independent Exploration Library For Your Students

Earlier this month, I gave a presentation on Independent Exploration at the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers’ (NYSAFLT) Summer Institute. Although I’ve […] Read More

Posted onFebruary 18, 2021February 9, 2024 authentic resources, authres, Chandeleur, crepes, culture, french culture, hybrid learning, Nearpod, remote learning, Time to Climb, video, virtual taste test, Zoom

How We Celebrated Chandeleur Virtually

Well, I’ve been trying to post my new hybrid and virtual ideas related to holidays before the holiday actually occurs so that readers have an […] Read More

Posted onFebruary 4, 2021December 15, 2024 authentic resources, authres, Black History, Canva, carnaval, covid-19, cuisine, culture, EdPuzzle, hybrid learning, mardi gras, Nearpod, New Orleans, Quizizz, remote learning, video, virtual taste test

Mardi Gras 2021 in French Class (UPDATED 2/11/21)

NOTE:  I’m reposting this, as I added some additional resources.   Like just about everything we normally do in our classrooms, Mardi Gras is another […] Read More

Posted onDecember 29, 2020July 26, 2021 authentic resources, authres, Canva, edtech, holidays, hybrid learning, la fête des rois, listening, Nearpod, remote learning, video

La fête des rois, Hybrid Style

With la Fête des rois just around the corner, before break I knew I had to find a way to somehow adapt this holiday’s customs […] Read More

Posted onOctober 23, 2020 authentic resources, authres, Canva, edtech, hybrid learning, Nearpod, remote learning, technology, Time to Climb, video, youtube

Qu’est-ce que la Toussaint ?

The lesson I normally give for Halloween isn’t fully compatible with our school’s current hybrid model of teaching, and I am at a different spot […] Read More

Posted onAugust 14, 2020 authentic resources, authres, edtech, remote learning, technology, video, vocab, YouGlish, youtube

Introduction to YouGlish

About a month ago I was introduced to YouGlish on the French Teachers in the U.S. Facebook group.  Essentially YouGlish is a web-based tool that searches […] Read More

Posted onApril 9, 2020 activities, Canva, edtech, games, gimkit, kahoot, remote learning, video

These Are Trying Times!

The last time I posted on this blog was in February, before the novel coronavirus became a global pandemic, shutting down schools, businesses, and other […] Read More

Posted onJune 19, 2017 video

New YouTube Sensation: Google Translate Sings!

A colleague recently introduced me to a YouTube channel, called Google Translate Sings, run by Malinda Kathleen Reese.  Reese runs English language songs through various […] Read More

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