Highland Modern Languages Subject Support

Thanks to Shirley Barr (Culloden Academy) with her 25 pupils and Thea Pallut (Grantown Grammar) with her 5 pupils for coming to the BdL in the Spectrum Centre, Inverness yesterday.  Watch this space for the photos - they should be posted soon once Guillaume has managed to email them to me!! (I had forgotten my own [...]

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Thanks to the 12 pupils from Golspie and the 11 pupils from Thurso who came together on Tuesday for a great day of fun and games, all in French of course!  Thanks too to Eva, Thibault and Guillaume, our usual suspects, and to the three teachers from Thurso and Golspie who helped out.  But most [...]

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Alasdair Bauld (Dornoch Academy) and Jean Michel Oblette (Farr High School) showed some ways in which having a digital projector and, if possible, an interactive whiteboard can add that ‘wow’ factor to your ML lessons.
Here is Alasdair’s presentation.  Although the links won’t work, it will give you an idea of what you can do.
go-digital-native.ppt
Start small [...]

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This session was a re-run (plus some new ideas) of what happened in the Dornoch and Culloden days last November.  Thanks to Arthur Scott (Invergordon Academy) and Myriam Crosse (Wick High School) for helping to get the ball rolling with these suggestions.  Please add any more ideas you have for ML classroom games by clicking [...]

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Sally Auty (Mallaig High School) and Joyce McLean (Golspie High School) have lots of experience running trips and exchanges abroad.  With strict new guidelines and requirements for detailed risk assessments, many may be tempted not to continue.  Thanks to Joyce and Sally for sharing their ideas and for making their plans and risk assessments available [...]

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David Crook (Ullapool High School) and Pierre Boyer (Fortrose Academy) decided a couple of years back to move their departments towards presenting for Intermediate exams instead of Standard Grade exams.  This session was an opportunity for them to reflect on the impact their decision has had, positive and negative.  It was also an opportunity for those [...]

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 Thanks to Stuart Fernie (Invergordon Academy) and Fiona Taylor (Glen Urquhart High School) for sharing their ideas on how to use film in the ML classroom. Apparently there were some pretty gruesome pictures of former S3 pupils in there…
Here are Stuart’s presentation and his notes:
stuart-extended-viewing-and-writing.ppt
stuart-ext-viewing-and-writing-notes.doc
And Fiona’s handouts:
fiona-ace-ventura.doc
fiona-walt-disney-vous-presente.doc
fiona-la-gloire-de-mon-pere-workbook.doc

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For this session, a group of 12 teachers got together to learn some of the basics about podcasting and how it can be used in a classroom.
Here are some examples of class podcasts:
http://abauld.edublogs.org/
http://mfle.typepad.com/highlandpodcast/ 
The keen twelve then put together their own first multilingual podcast, talking about their journey through the snow, their impressions of coffee on arrival and their thoughts [...]

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Thanks to Thea Pallut (Grantown Grammar School) and Hiltrud Macleod (Dornoch Academy) for doing a re-run of the sessions they had delivered back in November.
Here are their handouts:
http://mlsupport.edublogs.org/files/2006/11/thea-on-blogging.doc
how-to-create-a-blog-new.ppt

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Thanks to Una Drinkwater (Millburn Academy) for holding the fort while Kate Aitken (Kinlochbervie High School) braved fierce weather and windy roads to make it to this session!

If you were there and have any comments to make, click on the ‘comments’ link below and make your contribution!

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