During this semester, we’ve done quite a bit of blogging and, I have to admit, it’s been nice spending time outside the usual classroom environment and using some technology. There is also quite a difference in the formal way of blogging compared to the usual talk teenagers use. It is also pretty neat to be able to share all of your work in one place and for others to be able to express their opinions on those things. Blogging can have a positive affect on your life by helping develop formal speaking skills and getting to see different views and aspects of you friends lives. I would feel fine if we continued blogging as usual in the second semester, but I would like to see more personal opinion. I mean a blog is supposed to be the writer’s opinion rather than just answering predetermined questions, right?

In the Beginning…

Recently in Spanish we have been studying vocabulary and grammar structures that deal with explaining a daily routine or preparing to go somewhere. Also, to help us understand this a bit better, we learned what a reflexive verbs are and how to use them. You normally use a reflexive verb when the subject and the object are the same. For example, If you were saying, “I wash myself,” you would use a reflexive verb.

What I Did

In order to show that I learned the material, I was required to use a voki to describe my daily routine before school:

1. First, I submitted a script I wrote describing our routine, which the teacher then checked and handed back.

2. Next, I corrected the mistakes pointed out to me and polished the script up a bit.

3. Then, after practicing my script a bit, I recorded it using my cellphone.

4. Lastly, my avatar was sent to my teacher and published here on my blog.

5. This was also a pretty big deal because it counted as my six weeks test grade which will replace my lowest test     grade so far.

The Aftermath

All things considered, this project was pretty fun thing to do because I got to use my own voice, it wasn’t that difficult an assignment, and it really didn’t take much of my personal time. The voki itself was pretty cool because it is like a talking picture of myself. The avatar for speaking tests is kind of give and take meaning it’s good in the respect that you don’t have o say all this in front of a class, but I think you can’t hear it as good on the avatar. I would probably rather just do it in front of the class, but the time out of the classroom is good too. This project was overall valuable to me because I learned a relatively big chunk of the Spanish language.

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We reviewed the different tenses of the Spanish language, one of which is the present pogressive form which is like the English “ing” form. Next is the tener que form, which is the equivalent of saying you have to do something. Then you have the immediate future (ir+a+infinitive verb) and present forms (just the regular use of the verb).

We expressed these using the Stixy website.

Here’s my board: Verb Tenses

After reviewing adjectives, I completed a project describing my favorite person. I used the Stixy website to create a board describing Jim Furyk. I went to the internet to found eight pictures of Jim and used the word “ser” to describe him.

Below is the link to my Stixy board:

Jim Furyk

In the second six weeks we continued to review adjectives. Here are some of my favorite things:

During the first six weeks of Spanish II, we discussed basic conversation skills, verb conjugation, and other skills.

Recently I made an avatar that describes a few things about myself. Here’s my avatar:

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