Voice Thread: Washington D.C. Experiences & Oso Pardo

Washington D.C. Experiences

This voice thread was about a kid going on a trip to Washingon D.C. and touring the city. I was interested in this voice thread because I have visited and he has visited things I did too. I liked it because it had a lot of pictures, audio, and messages. The author had an audio for all slides too. There wasn't a negative that came to mind, but it seemed well planned out and had information that related to his story.

Oso Pardo

This voice thread was about people commenting on their pictures and describing them in Spanish.. The name of the voice thread is "Grizzly Bear" (Oso Pardo). I was interested in this voice thread because Spanish has been fun and I wanted to see if I could understand it. The reason I liked it was younger kids took pictures of what they drew and presented it. While there were some negatives like there were words I didn't know, so it would be nice if they had a translator sometimes and there weren't many comments.

The site Voice Thread is a useful thing to put stories about an adventure in your life or to put useful ideas that may help others. I like that it is organized and has all the voice threads with a summary showing when the mouse scrolls over it. A negative is that there might be a topic that isn't on their, but may find one similar to it. It is another way to communicate with others who have had a similar experience or talk about something that other people have the same interest.

Great Blog

I picked Jami's Blog.

• Jami's Blog is colorful and has it layed out to her liking.
• She also made it to match the theme. There is a picture of Screamtown with dark and bright Halloween colors.
• She has all the required postings in an organized column to make it look neat.

Jami

Favorite Class Essay

If I were to pick my favorite class in school, I would pick Spanish. One reason I enjoy it is there are games that are open to me to learn more vocabulary. Learning a new language is the second reason for liking Spanish and my last reason is I can communicate in a different language.

One reason Spanish is my favorite class is the activities we can do to learn more vocabulary. I really enjoy playing vocabulary games on the internet during my free time or even when I am in Spanish class. When I started out playing the games, I was getting more wrong than right. After awhile when I kept coming back to the site I kept improving my score.  Once I did it a couple of times it makes me want to do it more and get a better score, which is what I like about these games. 

            Learning a new language is another reason Spanish is my favorite class. Mostly everyone knows learning a new language is a little tough at first or maybe through it all, but I can understand it. I have become comfortable learning Spanish; I feel I know the concepts of it very well. The language is also pretty, but different than English in some ways. An example is adjectives go behind the thing you are describing instead of in front of it.

The last reason Spanish is my favorite class is I can communicate in a different language. I think talking in a different language is fun because you can communicate with others who know it and have a conversation with them that others may not understand. I feel I can speak it fluently in class and through a conversation too.

Through all my classes Spanish is my favorite class because I enjoy it. I have earned a very high vocabulary by playing the vocabulary games. I am able to learn another language that isn’t hard, but requires work at it. Also, being able to communicate in a second language can help me when I travel to places where they speak Spanish. Speaking Spanish can offer me many opportunities and I hope to learn more in the future.