Highland Modern Languages Subject Support

Minutes of CPD events for ML teachers in Highland

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Highland CfE Showcase event

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments

There were lots of great presentations from teachers in Highland including several with a Languages focus or something that could be used in the Languages classroom. Here are some of the presentations:
Highland CfE Showcase Thea Searle – a presentation on using a Rich Task approach to structure an interdisciplinary project on the Local environment in [...]

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Highland Learning Festival, Dingwall, 27/10/09

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Using Mobile Phones in the Classroom
Alasdair Bauld, PT ML/ICT, Dornoch Academy
 Notes:

What for?

paired speaking
solo talks
trio discussions
speaking homework
audio versions of things to be learnt by rote
science experiment reports for those who have difficulty writing?
audio diary of things learnt?

How?

voice recorder
video camera
bluetooth
dictaphones for those without
time limit: rehearse, record, rename, remit

Why? – benefits

time saved in class
it’s free!
pupils engaged, keen to [...]

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Moray Council Inset Day, Thursday 24th May, 2007

June 7th, 2007 · No Comments

What a privilege to meet up with ML teachers from our neighbouring Authority at Elgin Academy!  There were two sessions organised for ML teachers, each aiming to increase the use of ICT in languages classrooms: one session was led by a couple of people from Promethean who showed some of the applications of interactive whiteboards [...]

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MLPS Meeting, Dingwall 22nd May 2007

May 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Just spent a nice morning with 16 Primary teachers and their tutors on the Highland MLPS programme.
We covered basic ICT vocabulary, websites, software, and other things.
 Here is the podcast we made up!

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Communicate 07, Stirling Management Centre, March 17th 2007

May 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Another excellent event put on by LT Scotland and Scottish CILT.  Click here for a link to the official site, or see below for my own take on the seminars I attended.
10.00 – 10.30
Prof Johnson:
Traced development of technology in ML classroom from 50s to present. 
Also development of methodology, didactic to communicatiev approach during LFA period.
In [...]

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Bains de Langue – Broadford, Skye (27/2), Dingwall (1/3), Millburn (6/3) and Dornoch (9/3)

May 10th, 2007 · No Comments

The plan was to have a collection of photos from the last four Bains de Langue that took place this year, but a lack of organisation (ie forgetting the camera and being too tied up to use my camera phone!!) you’ll have to be content with words only!  Pupils from Portree High, Plockton High, Dingwall [...]

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Bain de Langue, Inverness, 20th February

February 21st, 2007 · No Comments

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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Bain de Langue, Golspie, Tuesday 13th Feb 2007

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

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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ML Conference 8/2/07, Session 3c – Using Digital content and an interactive whiteboard as a motivator

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

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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ML Conference 8/2/07, Session 3b – Non-ICT games for the ML classroom

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

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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