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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Moray Council Inset Day, Thursday 24th May, 2007
June 7th, 2007 · No Comments
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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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ML Conference 8/2/07, Session 3a - Trips abroad…worth the risk assessment?
February 14th, 2007 · No Comments
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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ML Conference 8/2/07, Session 2c - ACE…Is it time to switch to Intermediates from SG?
February 14th, 2007 · No Comments
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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