música part 3 - Latin Grammys!

En noviembre the Latin Grammys were awarded. Check out this site to see the who was nominated, and who won (bold)

Possible extra credit points (email/leave a comment)

• translate the categories to English
• select one category - listen to each song and describe which one you like best and why
• select one category - tell me what country each nominated group/person is from
• select a group that was nominate in two or more categories - briefly describe their music and a short biography in your own words
• feel free to come up with your own ways to show that you've explored música latina

Below is one of my favorite songs from Los Rakas, "Hip Hop" - you'll probably find the beat familiar!

música part 2 - US Grammys for Latin Artist

The 54th Grammys will be awarded February 12th on CBS. Below is the artist nominated for the Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban album.

Find and listen to their music online. Which one do you like most/why? Who do you think should win/why? What country is each band from? Leave comments or email me for some hot tamale points!

música! part 1 - Alt Latino

Podcasts are free radio-like programs you can download on iTunes. I've been listening to Alt Latino since it started and I love it because I get to listen to music and learn something cool! No me gusta todo la música pero es gratis!

Click here to see the blog of the best songs of 2011.

For extra credit listen to a song and leave a comment here on what you thought about it.

Stay Spicy! Learn Spanish on Twitter

You're all on twitter, might as well learn some Spanish!

You probably didn't know this, but twitter is huge with us nerdy teachers. It's a great place to connect and share resources. I even tweet with Spanish teachers in Spanish...just because we can!

Why don't you do some Spanish-related tweeting? Click here to see a list I've created of twitter handles you can follow to learn Spanish. 

Feel free to follow me (I discuss lots of technology and education related topics) - I'd be happy to tweet en español contigo!