As a transition between 2 units (weather – café) in French A, we listened and sang the song "Aux Champs Élysées" (Joe Dassin) in class.The song led us to a visit in the streets of Paris and with the use of youtube , I was able to show a video clip with some images of les Champs Élysées.However, trying to give a perspective to students who have never been to France what the streets of Paris look like and where they lead you was no easy task.I used the board to draw a mediocre map explaining how you can go from l'Arc de Triomphe to la place de la concorde, to le musée du Louvre, etc.
On Wednesday, during our F2F meeting, we learned about the 2009 Horizon Report and Geo-Everything: "Many free or very low-cost tools to capture and display geolocative data are available online and they continue to improve in usability and flexibility".
The next day, my students were taking a walk down the Champs Élysées, thanks to google maps .
Woohoo! Excellent use of digital tools to meet the needs of your students and reach your curricular goals! Perfect timing too :)
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