Summer Goals

It's four days of school, and four days of finals, and one day of housekeeping, and 2009-2010 school year is ovah (remember I am in Maine--we say such things).

I'm giving 40 hours to summer work--exactly 40 hours--and these are the goals. All of these imply web-work, and revised syllabi.

Level 1 (ten hours)
1. Examine and reflect on the World Language Seminar model and tweak it.
2. Specifically, re-organize the Seminar to be a list of tasks instead of calendar-based.
3. Create project sheets for each task and make them into .pdfs for the wiki (ETA we created these as we went along last year--not a huge timesucker)
4. Isolate the essential skills done!
5. Create a metalanguage master definition page with tons of examples
6. Create Google sites for each student.

Level 2 (ten hours)
1. Create a metalanguage list
2. Create a task-based list to meet Maine Learning Results. (Worry about project sheets as we go--at least create the first few).
3. Isolate the essential skills.
4. Create a metalanguage master definition page with tons of examples.
5. Create Google sites for each student.

Level 3 (ten hours)
1. Make a list of units by semester.
2. Make project sheets for each one.
3. Isolate essential skills.
4. Create a metalanguage list.
5. Create Google sites for each student.

Level 4 (ten hours)
1. Create list of potential tasks for students to choose from. Each task must incorporate reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students will choose one task for each quarter and the last quarter will be student-created task based on my model.
2. Isolate essential skills.
3. Create a metalanguage list.
4. Create Google sites for each student.

Tech skills for 2010-2011
1. Learn to use Audacity
2. Play with Voki


I think I am done with Ning. I saw an awesome example of Google sites for World Language portfolios. I am going to keep the wiki with syllabi, though, as that is a great parent portal. I wish I knew how to use Moodle.