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Extra
Extra is a Spanish comedy show with English and Spanish subtitles. The show has a comedic “Friends” vibe to it and centers around two girls, Lola and Ana who share an apartment in Spain. They have a downstairs neighbor that they interact with, Pablo who is also a main cast member. In the episode I…
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Lost Years
By Alex Sellitsch The show I decided to watch on YouTube was called “Lost Years”, a Turkish Soap Opera. The scenery in this episode was beautiful, and had a lot of similarities and differences to our own landmarks here in America. First, there were two characters walking along the beach. It seemed to resemble the…
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Skam
I watched an episode of the Netherlands remake of Skam. In this version of the show, it portrays a very easy going and laid back school. The “mean girls” from school are similar to the ones here. The students that are mainly shown throughout this episode act very grown up and matured. I wasn’t sure…
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Parasite
I watched the movie Parasite and they speak Korean throughout the movie. The movie is about two families who come from very different backgrounds. One family is very wealthy, the Park family, while the other family, the Kim family, lives in poverty. The message behind the movie is conflict between classes. The movie is set…
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TV Show with English Subtitles
The show that I watched is, “Wind in the Face” which is a Russian TV Series. One of the cultural aspects of this TV series is the language. The language within this show is Russian. Another cultural aspect of this TV series is its architecture. The buildings are made of stone and brick and they…
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Communication in the Classroom
Communication is key, right? We usually associate this advice with personal relationships, but it really is part of the entire world around us. The reading our class did this week from “Sail the 7 Cs with Microsoft Education” was on the second chapter. This chapter focused on communication tools that Microsoft provides and ways that…
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Using Presenter Coach in the Classroom-By:Emily Faragher
Presenter Coach gives students the opportunity to really practice their presentation by listening to them speak. This program gives feedback as the person is presenting. Presenter Coach gives tips about the pace that the presenter is speaking at and monitors how many times a person uses filler words. The program warns the individual to use…
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Using Microsoft Speaker Coach
Formerly known as Microsoft Presenter Coach, this tool is a great way to assess your strengths and weaknesses in a powerpoint presentation. When finished with your powerpoint presentation the feature Speaker Coach gives you the opportunity to present your project in private to them. They then will provide feedback and give tips on your pace,…
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication Device
After reading chapter 2 of Sail The 7 C’s, one major subject stood out to me. The reading that stood out the most was about augmentative and alternative communication devices, also known as AAC. These devices are used to help non-communicative or hard of hearing students better communicate with their classmates and teachers. The AAC…
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Microsoft Translator
After reading Chapter 2 of our textbook, I learned about Microsoft Translator. This tool is a way for diverse school communities to communicate without the difficulty of finding interpreters for those whose native language is not English. Translator is free, easy to use, and accessible through any mobile device. There are more than one hundred…