Miscellaneous

Just a few bits and pieces here.

First, student teaching is going well, and at some point I will post about it on here, but right now I'm just getting used to not having any free time until after 9pm, by which point coherent thought is in scarce supply. But I will get over it, I hope, or this doesn't bode well for my future...

Second, the lovely people at Lycos Tripod have announced that they have been saved at the last minute and will continue their free web hosting service, so my web page on building an intercultural classroom will continue to be available. Which presents a bit of a problem, actually-- since it will be up indefinitely, I need to change a few parts of it and I can't remember how to do that, and probably won't have a lot of time to figure it out. But anyway.

Here is a site that will allow you to create text for kids to practice cursive writing. You put in the text, the font, and the size, and it will arrange it on a pauta (the guide lines for writing) on one line, then leave the next one blank for copying. Since here kids learn to read and write using cursive first, it is a good way for them to practice using a story that they make up or whatever text you want. OS needs to work on his writing, and it's more fun this way than buying a typical libro de caligrafía.

And finally, I still have a few more classes to write about in my series on the Spanish Magisterio Lengua Extranjera degree (I'm sure you are waiting with bated breath for that...), and I do intend to get to that soon. So, watch this space-- eventually I will post again.