Data Analysis and Collection

Part I: About the Station

Give the title of the module/station

Station 8: Parts of Speech Across Languages

Who was in your group?

Me Myself anf I.

A (group) description of what the station was

I was assigned an activity that compared the different parts of speech between English and Spanish.

A (group) description of what your group did

I found an article about the Chile earthquake in English and then found the same article in Spanish. I then made the different parts of speech different colors for both of the paragraphs. I also used wordle to make word clouds for each paragraph.
What did you as an individual do? (what role did you play?)

Part II: Your Work
Your station gave you a scenario and you were told what to do. In paragraph form, write up your answers to the questions you were asked (or give the information you were told to give). Use screenshots, screencaptures and other evidence to back up our words.
Give group answers, but add your own perspectives as necessary (you can add to your group's response).

Kristin Key

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/09/chile.earth.shifts/index.html?hpt=T2

Red-Article
Blue- Adjective
Green- Noun
Purple- Verb

A poco más de una semana de ser azotados por un terremoto de 8.8 grados y los sucesivos tsunamis, algunos chilenos tratan de normalizar sus actividades, mientras otros siguen esperando la ayuda.

http://www.cnnmexico.com/mundo/2010/03/08/chile-quiere-levantarse

Red-Article
Blue- Adjective
Green- Noun
Purple- Verb
There are lots of nouns in each paragraph, but much more articles in the English paragraph compared to the Spanish. I think the Spanish language tries to keep the key words and concepts to shrink the paragraphs. For example, there were more words in the English Wordle cloud than in the Spanish Worlde cloud.

Part III: What did you think?
Answer the following questions individually:
What did you like about this activity, if you were the student? What about if you were the teacher?

It was ver interactive and made class go by fast. As a teacher I would be able to tell if the students are learning something valuable.

What did you not like about this activity, if you were the student? What about if you were the teacher?

It was time-consuming and a little advanced. As a teacher, it is a lot to have to grade.

What were the most interesting and/or surprising parts of this activity?

This project helped me learn the comparisons between the language which is something i have never really studied.

Prado Museum

This is the Prado Museum that I found using googleearth.com. This is a reference website. It was very easy to navigate. I was exploring new knowledge using this website. I think this could be a very fun and effective tool when it comes to my students learning about the spanish culture and area. I could ude this site almost like a virtual field trip and walk my students through this step by step.

Content Exploration Tool

freerice.com is a website that has an educational game. This can also be considered a drill and practice. In this website, my students could apply their knowledge of the spanish language by translating words. This is an educational game because students donate rice by translating words and getting them correct.

Evaluating teacher website for spanish

This website is called http://highschoolace.com/ace/language.cfm. This was created by Schmidel & Wojcik . The purpose of this website is to educate. People can learn different languages through this site. There's only advertising of materials to help with learning different languages. I could use this site for my students to take spanish exercises and quizes and the site also has dictionaries. I like this site because it has different sites within this one that leads to many different things.

This website is called http://teachspanish.com/. This site was created by Bilingual Depot, Inc. to assist those teaching spanish with ideas about teaching and lesson plans. There is very little advertisement. They sell materials like books through this website.I can use this if i need help with coming up with ideas for teaching lessons. I may also be able to use some of the resources they sell in my classroom, like the Think Spanish Magazine.