Ruth Valle

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Gimkit: It’s Like Kahoot on Steroids

Last Thursday I discovered a new game to play with my high…

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Gamifying My Language Classroom with Classcraft

This year I have turned my Spanish classroom into an adventure.

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Chromebooks for Native Speaker Rotations in the Spanish Classroom

This semester I began using Chromebooks in the Spanish classroom for native…

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Keeping Them Guessing by Varying Presentation Tools

If you have been teaching for many years as I have, it…

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Providing a Bigger Purpose with a Genius Hour Project

In a 21st Century classroom students ought to be given the opportunity…

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Develop Your First App With Appy Pie

I just published my first app for my upcoming Spanish high school…

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My Twenty-First Century Classroom: A Vision for the 2015-2016 School Year

It is the time of the year when teachers barely finished one…

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Getting Your Students’ Head in the Game with Kahoot

Recently, I discovered that gamification has great promise in my high school…

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Boosting Classroom Engagement with EDpuzzle

Recently I discovered a wonderful site, http://edpuzzle.com. With EDpuzzle I can now…

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Going Global: Why We Love Mystery Skyping

Even though most of my rural East Tennessee high school students have…

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Teaching with Augmented Reality: It’s Here

One month into the 2014-2015 school year, my students and I are…

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Flipping Tools for Success: 10 iPad Apps for Digital Classroom Management

Teachers considering the benefits of flipping the classroom and have an iPad…

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How the Digital Natives Feel About E-Textbooks: A Survey

For the first time in my 27 years of teaching Spanish, I…

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Balancing the Use of 21st Century Educational Technology with Real Life Experience in the Classroom

A colleague and I had the pleasure to attend an enlightening technology…

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[EdTech Insight] From Theory to Practice: Not a Far Stretch

Today I met all of my 123 new Spanish II students. After…

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