This week in class we studied how to make comparisons in spanish such as más o menos.We also tried a new way of learning called flipping the class room. Its where you do your work and learn the lesson outside of class so that when you get to class you have emore time for questions and descussion. We used Animoto.com in order to do this. We made a comparison video in spanish and emailed it to our teacher. We also used creative commons pictures in our videos. I would like to give credit to, Cindy Tickle, Christina Gray, John Chattman, Kevin L. Clark, Trans Griot, Stu Seeger, Tamike Smith, Jens Karlsson, Dave Isben, and Dimmu Jed. Here is my comparisons video from animoto.com.

Using creative commons may work for some people, but it doesn’t work for me. You have to use creative commons when using someone else’s picture on your own piece of work. When using their photo, you have to go through a process of where you got it, and who’s picture it is so that it doesn’t count as copywriting. I personally don’t like it and would rather not use it. I understand that some people do not want their photos all over the internet, and that’s perfectly fine, but I would rather just upload a picture of my own because that is much more simple.

Mi universidad favorita es Baylor. Si no puedo la Universidad de Baylor, me gustaría ir a la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Quiero ir aquí porque esta cerca de casa y tiene un gran programa de obras de arte. Me encantaría ser artista cuando me graduo. Pero si no puedo ser una artista, quiero ser una farmacéutica. Voy a especializarme en el arte con una carrera farmecéutica. Voy a lograr mis objectivos por ser trabajaradra  y por estudiar mucho.

I have enjoyed blogging during this semester of Spanish II. It opens me up to the real world more than Facebook or texting  does because you have to be more professional about what you say and how you say it. Embedding my work on my blog makes me nervous because i know that anyone can see it and if I mess up on something I would be kind of embarrassed, especially since I’m  using this blog for a second language class.  I feel fine when others comment on my blog post because if I do mess up, then I would want to be told what I did wrong or if I did a good job I would want to be told so. Blogging could be beneficial for me in the future. It has taught me to be more professional about what i say online, and that could help me with my jobs in the future. In the second semester, I think I would like to do more avatars and recordings because its new and makes learning this language fun.

           Summary of Post

During the first semester of Sapnish II, we covered vocabulary and grammar structures dealing with our daily routines for getting ready to go somewhere. We also learned what a reflexive verb is. You use reflexive verbs when talking about doing something with or to yourself. For example: “I wash my face.” “Yo levarme la cara.”

           Mi Voki de Mi Rutina Diaria

In the third six weeks of Spanish II, we have been creating an avatar on www.voki.com which explains our daily routine that we go through every morning before school. After creating my avatar, I was required to write a script of my daily routine that my voki avatar would say over the internet. We were allowed to take the rough drafts of our scripts to our teacher, where she would read over it, circle the errors, and send us away to correct them until the script was perfect. Next, I had to recite my script aloud to myself several times, practicing pronunciation of the words to get a nice, easy flowing description. When I was confident in my pronunciation, I logged onto my voki account and and had them call me on my cell phone so I could recite my script which recorded onto my voki avatar. I then saved and published my avatar onto my account, sent my avatar to my teacher by eamil, and embeded it onto my blog. This assignment counts as my six weeks test grade.

          Thoughts On Voki.com

I really did enjoy this project, it was entertaining  and opened up a new door to make such a tedious task enjoyable. I’ve never used the internet in any class as much as I do in Spanish II and I have never created an avatar for any class. I would much rather record my voice over the phone onto an avatar as opposed to making a speech in front of a class. This project definately taught me that learning a new language isn’t only about memorizing vocabulary words, but also about correct pronunciation.

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In the first semester, we learned the present tense, immediate future, tener que, and present progressive forms of sentences. Present tense is used when reporting action that does happen.  Immediate future is used when saying what you are going to do. Tener que is used when saying what you have to do. And present progressive is used when using a gerund or -ing type of verb.  We used the Stixy website to create a project using this knowledge in Spanish.

Here is the link to my stixy board: Verb Tense Review

After reviewing adjectives, I did a project describing my favorite person. I used the Stixy website and uploaded pictures of my favorite person. I wrote sentences in spanish describing this person using the verb “ser”.

Here is the link to my board:  Usher

In the second six weeks we learned basic sentence form. I made a slide show on www.slide.com with some of my favorite things.

In the first six weeks of Spanish II we reviewed verb conjugation, telling time, how to write a sentence and how to ask questions. I have created an avatar on www.voki.com resembling myself that talked about my family and some pieces of my life in spanish.

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