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First of all, what a luxurious problem to have! Secondly, I have a class with only 12 students and we are able to have a more intimate lesson with fewer students, so it's nice. Again as another poster said, I don't know what you have access to, but it's nice to sit at a computer or television and ob...

Thanks for the great information! Right now, our high school offers ASL as a foreign language option, so that's what our Deaf students take, but it would be interesting to guide them in another way if they wanted to. Thanks for the post!

I think someone may have mentioned it already, but www.barryfunenglish.com is a good site!

I know there's also zamzar.com and keepvid.com (not sure about the legality of sites like this, though) and you can always upload them to teachertube.com or hulu.com. Our district won't let us watch YouTube in the classroom, even for educational purposes.

I had a very similar situation happen to me but it was with a group of students instead of just one. I kept the three of them after class one day and asked them, very frankly, what the problem seemed to be and if there was any way I could help them be more successful in the class. I explained that i...