What's happening in Mr. Bacon's Spanish 1 class?

As I have been planning for the new year I have discovered the following sites:

http://www.myscschools.com/offices/cso/standards/foreign/documents/studies/chapter1.pdf
Why foreign languages?

http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos/flstandards.html
ERIC/CLL Resource Guides Online

http://www.actfl.org/files/public/execsumm.pdf
ACTFL standards executive summary

http://mexico.udg.mx/cocina/cocinamex.html
La cocina mexicana (link changed)

http://wwitv.com/portal.htm
TV from all over the world

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/famncomm/pa400.htm
This is the most comprehensive article on school-family partnerships, with links all over the place.

http://www.blogger.com/start
Blogger home page

http://www.bloglines.com/
Bloglines home page, which allows one to combine blogs

http://www.flteach.blogspot.com/
Sandra's blog: a sample teacher blog

http://www.blogs4teachers.com/
Blogs for teachers: good starting point for teachers who want to blog

http://anne.teachesme.com/
Another good source of blogging info

http://www.rightquestion.org/
rqp = the right question project

http://www.ncusd203.org/
Naperville website

http://www.anoka.k12.mn.us/education/dept/dept.php?sectionid=12077
Anoka-Hennepin website

http://www.americaconnects.net/
America connects consortium: community technology works

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/index.html
Harvard family research project

http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/tips/TIPSmain.htm
TIPS: Teachers involve parents in schoolwork

http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/default.htm
National network of partnership schools

I'm really interested in both taking my class out into the community as well as bringing the community into the classroom.

• Do you have any ideas?
• Would you like to visit the class either as a volunteer or a guest speaker?
• Can you think of a field trip in town which would benefit our class?
• Do you know any members of the community who might be willing to share their experiences?

All ideas are welcome.