Cha Cha en Chihuahua Travel the Mexican states Cherie Gans Enterprise High School, Redding, CA

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology My name is Cherie Gans and I am a Spanish teacher at Enterprise High School. My web site is My is This is a lesson for Spanish I or II students on the Mexican states. The students will research and create a PowerPoint presentation they will narrate in Spanish on the state of their

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Expectations To use Excel To create a technology-based lesson to be used in my classroom To put a lesson on a web site To make an inter-active web site. I was worried to death!

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Outcomes I learned the following: –Graphing with Excel –Web page creation in Netscape Composer –Linking pages and projects –PowerPoint –Excel –Downloading and Uploading techniques The sun started to shine again!

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Student Success! High interest for students--themselves traveling Meets standards Practice speaking, writing, reading in Spanish Experience a culture--up-to-date! Become familiar with our neighbor to the south!

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Shortcomings Students got distracted when researching their state Some Mexican states had very little info on Internet Teacher needed more time to help each student Photos and PowerPoint took lots of time Students nervous

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Student Data: (data hypothetical) Fabulous Improvement! Students went from not knowing much at all, to having a sound knowledge of the Mexican states.

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Speaking Practice Important for Speaking Success

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Correlation of Culminating Activity and Post-test

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Sexual Stereotypes? Maybe...

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Summary This project helped fulfill a desire of mine--for my students to use the Internet for current information. The class was an excellent review of Excel and PowerPoint and taught new computer skills. This will be a doorway to other teachers’ lessons I want to do. I’m hopeful that students will find my lesson a interesting way to get acquainted with Mexico!

Cherie Gans, Enterprise High School ¡Cha cha en Chihuahua! June 29, 2001 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Student Work Around March, 2002, you’ll see wonderful slides from my students’ PowerPoint presentations!