Learn Tech with Ruth

It's summer time. Wow. Hard to believe that we are really free for the summer. Two whole months. If only one did not have to worry what will happen in the upcoming school year. Will we will back in class with our students or will we be teaching hybrid classes? No one knows at this time. So I am keeping super busy creating little instructional videos for teachers who want to try new tech things. Check out the one on remove.bg. It's super easy to remove the background in any pictures and replace it with a new background. I love it. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel if you would like to get new videos in the future. 

So I am now a French and German teacher at my school in East Tennessee. I thought my old blog won't do anymore, at least not for the upcoming school year. Somehow my credentials escaped the bag as the AdvencEd people came to visit my school in March and they virtually overnight decided to offer French and German to our students, who, surprisingly jumped on that offering and filled the classes up in a snap. Honestly, I have not taught those subjects since 1990 I believe, except for a three week gig with the Upward Bound last summer where we did a German class. Well, I am determined to make a go of it and have started to compile tons of items unto my new Google Classrooms. I will be using "Bon voyage" for French and the Deutsche Welle Harry program for my German classes along with other resources of course. One of those will be the Extra! series in both French and German. Fortunately, someone on TPT created a mega bundle of activities for every episode, which was totally wo...