This document provides an overview of the various folders, assignments, and activities students will see in a French language course's Blackboard site. It includes folders for individual work, tests, and group projects. Assignments involve watching videos, discussions, quizzes, essays, presentations, a semester long project, and oral exams. The goal is to learn French while having fun through a variety of interactive activities both in and outside of class.

1. My Folders in Blackboard for
Group9 Individual Tests Students: what they see.
Espaces Supersite11
TV5 Monde2
Hybrid Class also means that we do International News3
Essay12 the following besides the Prerequisites for these classes:
requirements.... 1
None for French 101; 201 need
French 102
Individual Work10 Our Main Objective: to learn
while having fun in French !
Prezi, Power Point or a Video Presentation13
Mapping of my classes: details
for Week 17 Pedagogy First!
Field trip4
Semester Final Project14 Getting hold of me5
Classroom management French
Get your wheels turning: Oral Presentation15 101, 201
Blog6
Internet assignment18 Group Voice Boards17
Extra Credit
Group Work16
Reading to Children7
Skits19
Animations
Grades in Blackboard20
Support help desk from school: tutorials Key to Success with Web Quizzes8

2. Notes
1) Hybrid Class also means that we dorthe following besides the
rrequirements....
This is still an onsite class but using technology in class and outside the classroom to enhance what we do with the textbook.
We
2) TV5 Monde
We, at times, see some fun educational videos on TV5 Monde and the news.
3) International News
We watch the flash news for less than 3 minutes in class once/week. Students talk about the main topics: titles in English for French 101 and
in French for level 201.
4) Field trip
If I don't have too many students, I teach in a French bakery next to the school. Once a semester.
5) Getting hold of me
Via "Messages" in Blackboard so I can centralize all the students'messages or leaving a phone message on my voice box and during office
hours.
6) Blog
Via Ning, students can participate at any time of the day with interactive discussions between themselves on many various cultural topics and
exchanges their viewpoints with French students in a college in France.
7) Reading to Children
Students can read some short French children stories to young American children up to 5 years old.
8) Key to Success with Web Quizzes
Self-practice quizzes (with answers) done in class via the University of austin, Texas and at home for review purposes before the tests done
in class.
9) Group
Groups of 2 or 3 students: 1 test for the students. A students with A students, B students with B students, etc. The groups are determined
based on the previous 1st test results.
10) Individual Work
The essay or composition is turned in Turnitin via Blackboard.
11) Espaces Supersite
"Almost" daily homework online via Espaces Supersite (grammar + vocabulary+ short essays+ videos).
12) Essay
Writing an essay: subject taken from the Espaces textbook or vText.
13) Prezi, Power Point or a Video Presentation
Different approach on a cultural point by showing what you like best about French culture with support of text and images via Prezi, Power
Point or a Slideshare presentation.
14) Semester Final Project
Each student has the option to either write a small book in French on the topic they want but using the grammar and vocabulary they learned
during the semester or make a Website in French or make a short movie in French.
15) Get your wheels turning: Oral Presentation

3. Each student has to talk in class between 5 and 10 minutes in French on specific topic. Power point or Prezi can be used also.
16) Group Work
Assignments about making comparisons between French culture and cultures from other countries: the US, etc.
17) Group Voice Boards
The students have to come up with their own dialogue and record their voices while reading what they wrote in French covering the grammar
+ vocabulary every two chapters from Espaces. Done in Blackboard.
18) Internet assignment
Each group has to make some research on the internet to make comparisons between specific topics in French culture versus other world
cultures. Turned in via Turnitin in Blackboard.
19) Skits
Final project: make up a dialogue in French on "stage" in the classroom for an oral grade.
20) Grades in Blackboard
I create a written report from Blackboard for each assignment after grading so the students know what to work on (grammar, vocabulary
mistakes, sentences constructions). They also see the average grade for each assignment for the class to make comparisons with their own
assignments.