Take a look at a new website maintained by colleagues from Emmaville Primary School who'll be blogging throughout their school trip to France. Perfect technology for it!
Visit Emmaville's weblog
Mark Pentleton is a Modern Foreign Languages specialist with many years of experience in education both in the classroom teaching young people and adults, and as a local authority development officer. Mark is now the director of Radio Lingua Ltd, and continues to teach languages to hundreds of thousands of students every week via internationally-renowned podcasts. Since their launch in 2006, Radio Lingua podcasts have consistently been in the top 5 education podcasts in iTunes UK, US, and many European iTunes stores and, more recently, have won the European Award for Languages. In 2009, "Coffee Break Spanish" was named as European Professional Podcast of the Year. Mark regularly works with schools and local authorities on digital creativity projects and podcasting strategies. He has delivered presentations and training on creative technologies throughout Europe and Africa.
Support for supply cover.
Heworth Grange CLC will pay half-day cover costs for one MFL teacher from each Gateshead School. Please contact Pat Dee after the event to arrange a journal transfer, telephone 0191 4225882, email p.dee@hgclc.org
How to book your place
Please fill in the attached booking form and post, email or or fax it by Friday 11th June.
(Heworth Grange City Learning Centre, High Lanes, Heworth, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE10 0PT, www.hgclc.org
Tel. 4225882 email p.dee@hgclc.org fax. 0191 4202320)
Meeting on
March 17th at the Dryden Centre.
Lunch
is at 12.30pm and the meeting will start at 1pm.
It has been developed by the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University, for the Routes into Languages project.
Universed is hosted by ictGateshead at Gateshead CLC
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Much of the content is produced in the North East and all content is overseen, before it goes live on the site. It spans teen-focused content and links to existing mainstream web-educational sites. This language learning podcasting site is of a style that will attract young users and be big enough to encourage habitual use.
Universed is a cross-platform initiative with on-line social networking and user-generated content. This celebration of culture and diversity combines photographs, videos, audio files, bookmarks and blogs and other resources, from all across the globe; perfect for helping with GCSE homework, or just exploring the diversity of languages and cultures.
From June 2009 Universed will be hosted by ictGateshead.
]]>We managed to find our partner schools through the Global Gateway ( www.globalgateway.org.uk ). It was easy to register, and then we just had to write to 4 or 5 schools to express our interest in pairing up with them.
So far all we've exchanged is some emails and photos, but eventually we might be able to do things like videoconferencing and even exchanges!
If you've set up a link already, leave us a comment to give us some tips!
]]>Primary NQT MFL Training - 4 June (all day) - contact Alan Sergison
Training for Unit 4 of the Pathfinder Scheme - 8 July (pm) - contact Catherine Barrett
And don't forget the MFL Showcase on 24 June!!!
]]>If you're learning about animals, here's a guessing game that could be used as part of speaking and listening work. It could easily be adapted to help learn other new vocabulary too!
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Using Sony Jam Trax and Audacity we have captured Peter singing.
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fantastic music from peter
]]>Voici des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles et des branches..
Here's a Christmas themed word and phrase list for you to download.
Si La Vie est Cadeau was the rather excellent 1983 Euro Song Contest winner for Luxembourg sung by Corinne Hermès.
We've just taken delivery of a couple of Flip Ultra mini camcorders and first impressions are a big thumbs up. Great quality and as easy as an easy thing to use. Point and click and you're away. This could be a must-have tool for the classroom.
Anyway, a small bit of footage taken with the Flip is a click away below...