Those who want to try to be part of what will hopefully become our mega vPQA data base of hundreds of slide show lesson plans are invited to start building decks/slide shows.
Craig West suggested that we use Haiku Deck and so we will try that. I personally think it’s the right program for this important new work.
We can iron out the wrinkles as they appear, like how to divide the slide shows up per language category. All the decks we make are fully transportable into other languages.
So if you want to play:
1. go to Haiku Deck at https://www.haikudeck.com/
2. sign in – username is vpqaci@gmail.com – password is krashenrocks
3. build a deck
4. let me know when you finish one, at least now at the start, so I can tell the group that we have a new deck to play with or use in our classes.
5. remember when saving your new deck, save it as “Private” which means that only we can view these decks, and we must be signed in.
I suggest that we name our decks by the structures we are targeting in the deck. Here is an example:
French/steps on/screams/catches
It would be cool if you are doing this vPQA to eventually work with a story script to label it like this:
French/travaille/le patron crie/paresseux/Lazy/Matava Volume 1
I’m working on a deck for my favorite Anne Matava story, Lazy, right now and that is why I gave that example.
Another thing is that if your deck is connected to a certain novel, write that out this way:
French/works/pays/eats/Poor Anne/Chapter 1
Remember that we are free of copyright infringement issues here as long as we make our decks from the millions of images on Haiku Deck.
One thing I noticed about Haiku Deck is that when I put in a French word, travaille/works, for example, I got a bunch of images of people working, so the images can be searched in the language we are teaching. I thought that was pretty cool.
By the way, Haiku Deck can’t run on Internet Explorer, but it can on Chrome and Safari.
Well, we made a first step anyway. Let’s see what happens!