This description is from 2021. New spiel to be added ... some time soon. : )

Hello all!

This past year, but especially this Spring, I have been using Google Classroom daily (assignments, the grade book, google-forms, but not the stream) and integrated Google Slides, Flipgrid, and Quizlet links through G-Classroom to have the latter our one stop platform in French 102 (Beginning French II) and to a much lesser degree in French 450 (Seminar "Self-Expressions/Expressing Selves"). I am attending this iteration of FTI to ground what I've learned on the go this past semester in the structured and communal environment provided by the FTI, and make a set of productive decisions as I am looking to shift to G-Slides and G-Classroom as my preferred mode of teaching in the language classroom (no longer the classZoom, I hope--I taught remotely via Zoom all year).

My general goal is to use my experience prior to and during FTI 2021 to build the technological infrastructure for my French 101 sections this upcoming Fall ahead of the game, so I can focus the fall semester on fine-tuning the content from class to class rather than creating every class from the ground up several days a week. I'd like to learn how Google sites can enhance G-Classroom's potential for teaching, learning, and communicating, and when to integrate other resources than Google's.

More specific goals are to :
a) explore tools for asynchronous communication and group work;
b) learn how to fast-track preparing my upcoming Google Classrooms (I will teach two sections of French 101 (Beginning French I) and one section of French 340 (French Lit & Society, "Institutions, Knowledge, & Literature in Old-Regime France, with a focus on the Institution of Slavery), with lots of grading;
c) develop and refine strategies for posting course material in ways that engage and encourage learning readily;
d) learn how to use one google-assignment for a multi-step or multi-version assignment, or how to integrate another/other program/s to do this clearly and seamlessly;

I would love to exchange tips and have my teaching world rocked by your creativity!

Looking forward,

Isabelle