I am a huge fan of both Sesame Street in English and Sesamstraße in German, so whenever I get to use Sesamstraße in my lesson, it's a good day:
Our current topic in German 1 is food and restaurants. Students have learned several adjectives - lecker, süß, salzig, scharf - to describe how food tastes, so it's a perfect time to use this clip:
We watched the clip as a whole class and talked about it using schmecken and adjectives.
Then, I wanted students to do some independent writing in response to the video. I have some really great digital interactive notebook templates from Danielle Knight ($7 through Teachers Pay Teachers), including this one for retelling a story:
I used it to create a PowerPoint worksheet with clips from the video and questions for the students to answer:
Normally, I would just print out the worksheet and students would complete it on paper. But since we are 1-1 with laptops, I made an assignment in our Learning Management System where students downloaded the file to their computers, typed their answers in the boxes, and submitted it to me digitally in the LMS.
I was a little nervous about how my students would do with this since I haven't given this type of download-write-save-upload assignment before, but it went very smoothly!
When students submitted their work, I could view it easily in the LMS:
It was a great way for me to assess how they were doing with their comprehension, vocabulary, and ability to form complete sentence answers in German. It also held them accountable for completing the assignment.
I could even make corrections and leave comments quickly and easily on the students' work:
I'm definitely not a technology for technology's sake person, and I don't think I'll have a paperless classroom anytime soon. (Probably not ever - there's really nothing like a good foldable for pronouns!)
But there are times when technology really is a useful tool to enhance learning, and I feel like this was one of those times.
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