Final+Reflection

My goal with this Final Project was to create a resource that could eventually be used in French classrooms. I knew that I wouldn't find a speaker from all 29 countries during this semester, but my goal was to find 10. In the end, I have 6 represented from the Official countries, as well as 2 from unofficial countries. I'm still waiting on 3 recordings that have been promised to me, but not sent yet.

My main social network method was through Twitter, by mentioning Alec Couros in my tweets. This sparked a lot of communication, however a lot of the replies were from the same countries (Canada and France), or were not countries that I had on my list. I decided to add the two countries that were not on my list (Tunisia and Algeria) to my map because I figured that I might as well make use of the audio that they sent me, and that more examples couldn't hurt. Another method of communication was emailing. I emailed many different Universities around the world that were known for their education with International students, however this didn't prove to be successful.

Where am I going with this? I plan on continuing this project until it is all complete. I hope that as I start making new connections during my teaching jobs, that I can continue to add to the project. I would like it to be a complete resource that could eventually be given to French teachers, and in order for that to happen, I need to keep social networking.