Mini Project 2

Trying this again...Here it is for REAL this time!

MINI PROJECT 2

Thoughts on Intercultural Communication...

I enjoyed the readings and discussions on the intercultural communication topic. I believe strongly in the inclusion of culture in the teaching of a foreign language and can definately see the value of using intercultural communication in the FL classroom. As stated in some of the articles, it is important to have discussions in order to prepare students for such communication to make sure that everyone is on the "same page" to begin with. I could see how having differing expectations could certainly create tensions and missed communication. I also do think that it is important to make students aware of the existence of cultural stereotypes so that they are not reinforcing cultural stereotypes through the communications. In all, I think that it would be neat to use intercultural communication in the classroom. It is the modern version of pen-pals and I think that this is something that students (particularly at the middle/high school level) could get really excited about!

Video Project Ideas...

I am not completely sure what I would like to focus my video project on yet but I do have a couple of ideas. I know that I will be teaching at the high school level in the coming year so I would definately like to gear my topic to be appropriate at the high school level. I think that something dealing with the theme of travel would be nice but I am not exactly sure how to set that one up. I also like the idea of making commercials. Another neat thing would be to film dialouges. In the high school classroom, students could create dialouges or skits dealing with different situations (at the restaurant, phone conversations, meeting someone for the first time, etc). As you can see, I am not sure where I would like to focus my project yet but any ideas/feedback would be much appreciated!

Mini Project 1

Here is my Mini Project #1