Getting all the interventions together!

I actually had a fun time compiling all of my interventions to turn in for this week...In my mind I went through step by step/day by day to make sure that I didn't leave anything out...then came the trouble spot. Some of my intervention tools are in PowerPoint, others are on Youtube.com and others are from handouts in class, so I had to figure out a way to compile all of these different formats in an easy to read format which ended up including screen shots of the PowerPoints, links for the videos and copies of the handouts for class. I also decided that I should have a live format of my documents so I ended up making a quick website and uploaded all of my intervention tools there as well. It took me quite a few hours to make everything user friendly but I think that I am getting it together!

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Ok, here is my little problem that had to be overcome: for my pre-instruction pronunciation assessment I had the students use google voice and send me a voicemail message reciting a pre-scripted dialogue in Spanish (using very similar vocabulary to what the students will be preparing on their own for a final pronunciation evaluation) the problem is that I had to have the students tell me who they were in order to record their grade, so their first and last name was in each dialogue voicemail! This wouldn't do so what I had to to was think of a work around and I decided to record the voicemail messages one by one in audacity and then go back and edit out the name of each student. Well, it was time consuming but it worked! Then Amy let me know that a wav file was going to be way to big to put in my paper so now I am going to have a new step...uploading each pre-instruction sample to a podcast, that way I have a smaller file and a live sample, ready to go!

It's Almost Graduation Time!!!

Well, here we are again! I am just amazed that we are so very close to finishing our MAIT degree!!! I'm getting really excited, (I have to admit) and am looking forward to having my degree. I started going back to college (I had had my as. degree) after my daughter was born...I began thinking that I needed to be a strong female role model for her and by not having a higher level college education I didn't think that I was meeting the mark. I felt like someone she could look up to when I earned my Bachelors degree, but I knew that I would always want to continue my education in the future so...fast forward to now and, well...I am doing it! This degree program and timing was just perfect for me, I have Teia here at Southern with me and this program has just been so enjoyable and convenient, I don't think this experience could have been any better for me or for her (since she has had to come to many of the classes!) WOW!