This tech idea, an excellent one, is from our new PLC member Scott Grapin:
Hi Ben,
My name is Scott Grapin, and I am a TPRS/CI high school Spanish teacher in NJ. In fact, I share a classroom with Liam O’Neill (Chinese), who I know you met in Las Vegas this past summer. He encouraged me to join the PLC, and I’ve learned so much already – thanks for that.
Just thought I’d share a new tool that I found for creating and presenting embedded story readings. It is called “Google Story Builder” (http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/). You can check out one that I’ve made here (+ actual story attached to email). After each embedded reading “round,” I pause the video and the class does a choral translation. I like that the students are processing the text BOTH as it appears on the screen and then again during our class translation. For this embedded reading, each character (as the story builder refers to them) was simply a round of the embedded reading (1, 2, 3, 4). In stories with lots of dialogue, the characters could be used in a different way. Eventually, I also plan on creating a class story with the story builder.
Thanks for checking it out – hope it is of interest to some in the PLC.
Best, Scott
Here is the actual story:
Bo Bananagram tiene hambre. Son las ocho de la mañana. Bo Bananagram tiene hambre a las ocho de la mañana. Él va a Las Vegas. Él come un stinkbug en Las Vegas. Bo Bananagram dice, “UGHHH – ¡el stinkbug es horrible!” Bo Bananagram NO tiene hambre. Él va a casa.
Es mediodía y Bo Bananagram tiene MUCHO hambre. Él va a África. Él come un elefante. Bo come un elefante a mediodía. Bo Bananagram dice, “UGHHH – ¡el elefante es horrible!” Bo Bananagram NO tiene hambre. Él va a casa.
Son las nueve de la noche y Bo tiene hambre. Él va a Pascack Valley High School. Él NO come un sándwich. ¡Bo come Dr. Myers! Dr. Myers NO dice, “UGHHH – ¡Bo es horrible!” Dr. Myers dice, “¡Qué rico!”