Welcome to our teaching site!
Mr. Craft on December 7th, 2007
Welcome to www.teachjeffspanish.com! We’re a group of sixth graders at CrossRoads Middle School in Columbia, SC. We love watching Jeff Corwin as he explores Central and South America and uses his Spanish. We think he needs to learn a few new words, and we want to teach him!
To the right, you’ll see the episodes of Scavenger Hunt for Spanish, our show teaching Jeff. To make sure you get the new episodes, will you consider subscribing to our iTunes feed?
You can also subscribe to our RSS feed to get our blog posts which have a few words we think he needs to learn.
Take a look around! Just about everything you see has been written, edited and produced entirely by us 6th graders! Hope to see you back soon!
What a cool idea!! Your scavenger hunt for Spanish was really neat. Tell your class I love the website. They are doing a great job! I can’t wait to share it with my 7th grade teachers. I grew up in Greenville, South Carolina so I’ve been to Columbia many times. I’m the principal of Discovery Middle School in Madison, Alabama.
We’re glad you like it! Keep a watch out for Episode 3 coming out soon!
Our class is following your progress on Teach Jeff Spanish. This is a fabulous idea and we are very impressed! Since we are collaborating with a class in Colombia, learning Spanish is becoming important for us. Keep up the great work and we can’t wait to hear/see more!
HEY i wanna help!!
can you tell me how can i do to join it?
i live in colombia, my mother language is the spanish!!
i love to teach and learn another languages, like the chinese, so i wanna share my knowledge with another persons!!=)
thank you.
I like this idea! I collaborate with students on video and web productions. I have a few questions about your process:
1. what software are the kids using for their video production and compression?
2. are you able to upload your videos from your school (the Department of Ed blocks file uploads in New York City)
3. are you able to see Youtube videos in your school (the Department of Ed blocks YouTube and Google Video in New York City)
Answers to these questions would be really helpful to our process!
By the way, here are some videos we’ve done with kids at an elementary school in Brooklyn: http://ps124.wordpress.com/digital-productions/
Maybe we can collaborate sometime!
Hi PS124! Mr. Craft here, sorry the students are on vacation so I jumped in to answer your questions…
1. My kids use my personal MacBook Pro and a copy of iMovie HD (6). We tried MovieMaker and Pinnacle 10 and the kids found them to be just too hard to use and MovieMaker crashed a lotl
2. No, Youtube is blocked from our school, hence the teachertube links on each episode (well, that’s a recent thing).
3. No, but we can see teachertube so we use those links when we’re at school.
We’re going to be announcing soon a do-your-own-scavenger-hunt, maybe you’d be interested in collaborating that way? We’re going to check out your site too!
Yours,
Chris Craft and the TeachJeffSpanish.com crew!