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MFL Podcasting at Heworth Grange CLC with Mark Pentleton

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)

Download Flyer - MFL ICT 22nd June

The Newcastle strand of Routes into Languages North East is launching their web-based learning platform www.universed.co.uk. Universed was developed alongside http://linguacast.ncl.ac.uk for pupils and teachers in schools to supplement their learning with rich resources.

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.

Have you got a partner school abroad? We have just set up our first two links abroad - one in France and one in the Ivory Coast. We're hoping to use these links to practise the French we've been learning as well as find out about life in different countries and cultures! It's all very exciting...

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!

Welcome to the first of our 3 special editions guiding you through the next year's planning and implementation of the Primary MFL Entitlement! And Liz Marwood tells you how she developed her school's primary French weblog.

MFL Newsletter February 2009 (PDF 870KB)

Ooooh there's lots of new things here I want to try! Thanks!