Highland Modern Languages Subject Support

 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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Gisela Cumming (Kilchuimen Academy) and Pat Crippin (Inverness Royal Academy) led a discussion on issues facing teachers of Advanced Higher Modern Languages, including folios, speaking tests and discursive writing.

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

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Thanks to all who came and helped out at the conference the other day to make it a success.  Thanks especially to the staff at Charleston Academy who helped with the preparations for a fairly smooth run!
I’ll create a new post for each of the 9 sessions.  Please add your own notes and comments as [...]

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Despite the last minute venue change, today’s Bain de Langue went well thanks to the great participation of the pupils from Glen Urquhart High School and Charleston Academy.  Here are some photos from the event - click on the thumbnails for an enlargement.
  
  

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Just back from a successful Sprachbad run by Manuel Blechschmidt and Pia Schütz from the Goethe Institut.  Following some initially embarrassing ice-breaker activities, some twenty-five pupils and their old(ish!) teachers from Charleston, Grantown, Glen Urquhart, Dornoch, Fortrose, Kilchuimen and Tain got together to go through the following programme:
Das Deutschlandspiel: An interactive ‘board’game about German culture [...]

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S5 and S6 pupils from Ullapool and Fortrose got together yesterday for the first Highland Bain de Langue of 2007.  Thanks to Christine Mitchell from Inverness Royal Academy and our three FLAs, Eva Pauly, Thibault Sigiez and Guillaume Navarro for helping to run a successful day.  Here are some photos of what we got up [...]

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About 27 sad people gave up their Saturday to attend the SCILT outreach event in Inverness today!  Actually it was good to see so many there as only a couple of weeks ago, I heard that only 13 had booked for the event and so I was worried it might be cancelled.
There were four sections [...]

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