So, chances are that you are all familiar with the much beloved memes we see on Facebook. I'm particularly fond of the philociraptor myself. While these have become a part of our social networking lives, what is stopping us from using these as learning tools in the classroom, nothing. The "philociraptor" is cool because it is primarily used to point out contradictions in logic that are typically held as being true statements. While the statement itself may ultimately be true, the main object of it is to be thought provoking which, as teachers, will be our job.
These two memes were both created by me at memegenerator.net. It was really easy and free to do. there are a few pictures that can only be accessed if you have an account. But, it's free and only requires an email address and a password. As an historical reference point in my future french class, this meme would be a particularly good tool for showing about how far back France has influenced American culture and vice versa. It's important to note, here, that while the french monarchy aided us in the Revolutionary War, the people of France found it hypocritical that they would be paying for a war for freedom of another country from one monarch just to live under the tyranny of their own. Hence, the French Revolution was born.
One way that really helped me in high school french was translating catchphrases from American pop culture into french. In this example, Bart is demonstrating proper use of the imperative tense by using his famous quote "Don't have a cow!" In order to maintain proper retention of any subject matter, it's important to relate it to the everyday life of the student. By using things like these easy to use picture generators, we can make life easier on ourselves and let the meme say the thousand words for us instead of doing it all ourselves.
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