Observing Through Your Lens: This podcast highlights the lessons learned and experiences of one college student, preparing to be an elementary teacher in the US, participating in cultural exchange with a student in Spain. 

Our podcast Embracing Linguistic Differences introduces some of the ways in which Spanish and English languages differ linguistically. Then, we discuss the ways in which these differences can be built upon and embraced to encourage learning in a multilingual classroom. Our podcast goes over our experiences in the virtual exchange program, and tips like online resources and scaffolding are shared as well.

Diverse Discussions is about our experiences with getting to know our virtual exchange partners from Tenerife and some lessons we learned from those experiences. We discuss activities we planned to do with them using knowledge we learned from our class to make these activities fun and an opportunity for cultural exchange. There is a special guest featured in our podcast showcasing, one of the podcast hosts' moms, who can speak many languages, was a former international flight attendant, and is now a teacher. She passes on important wisdom and advice on creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all students.  

Our podcast A S.T.E.P Towards a Better Future explores the numerous concepts that we learned in this course throughout the semester. We discussed our main takeaways from the class, our experience with the virtual exchange, talked about the importance of creating an inclusive classroom environment that promotes/celebrates diversity, examined the ways in which we could create such an environment, and had a guest interviewee who had many interesting experiences to share that tied together all of the previously mentioned discussion points. We had such a wonderful time putting this project together! We hope the listeners enjoy it as much as we enjoyed creating this podcast!

A Tango with Tenerife: We speak on our experiences with our virtual exchange this semester with high school students from Tenerife, an island of Spain. We speak on the relations formed, the different forms of communication we used, and the language barriers we got past. We also share some advice and encourage others to have their own virtual exchanges around the world whether it be in our outside of the classroom.

Multilingualism in the Classroom: In this podcast we discuss how to embrace multilingualism in the classroom in many different subject areas and how to show students that their culture and language will never be diminished or belittled. We will use our strengths in the disciplines we teach to provide strategies to integrate multilingualism in Science, ELA, and History classes.

Speaking to the World: This podcast will discuss how to incorporate multilingualism into the classroom and help students to feel more accepted. Questions we discuss include our opinions and experiences on: What are some specific activities to promote multilingualism in the classroom? What are the benefits of multilingualism  in the classroom? How does it impact the student? How does it impact the teacher? What is multilingualism in the classroom? Why do we as a society discourage multilingualism? Why is multilingualism discouraged in the classroom?  

Linguistics: What Do? Our podcast focuses on the importance and need for linguistics courses in the curriculum of schools across the nation. We touched on the principles of linguistics, ranging from morphology, syntax, phonology, and more to the isolation and fear a multilingual student might feel in the classroom. We also offered many different tools of support and ways to utilize linguistics in your class each day while also making all your students aware of the significance of this topic. If you’re interested in learning more about how to incorporate linguistics into your classroom, give us a listen!

The Logistics of Linguistics: We discuss the similarities and differences between English, Spanish, and Italian linguistics. We each assigned ourselves a language and then took time to research and learn about the linguistics of the language, including phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse and pragmatics. During our podcast, we discuss our findings and discover many similarities and differences.

The benefits of Translanguaging: This podcast talks about the benefits of translanguaging. For the viewers who do not know what that is, we included a definition with an explanation so that people will understand. After we defined what it was, we discussed how teachers should embrace this skill rather than get angry at it. We showed how the teachers can do this as well. To end it, we gave a little interview with a comedic twist. We feel people remember things more when they laugh so we incorporated humor into our podcast to make it interesting to listen to. Hope you enjoy it!