Bienvenidos

Bienvenidos--welcome!!  We all have survived our first week in Spanish class.  I introduced myself to the class, completely in Spanish--Caramba!!!  Students were pretty surprised to find out that they could understand almost everything I said, even though they didn't know much Spanish at all.  So, the first lesson learned was that if you listen carefully, there are many similarities between Spanish and English, and you probably can pick out many words.  We have talked about our classroom rules and procedures (not exactly the most interesting of topics, but a necessary one). We also picked Spanish names and then learned how to introduce ourselves.  Students have also been able to log-in to our class wikipages and navigate around them to see what things are there for them to use.  They have learned how to call in oral assignments by cellphone or leave an online voice message, as well as how to hand in written assignments via an online dropbox.  We are trying to go more green and do more things online.  On to week 2.