From the Herald comes news of Discovery, Scotland’s International Film Festival for Children and Young People, backed by Hollywood film star Billy Boyd. Beginning today in Dundee, the festival will showcase the very best of national and international film made for and by children. It will feature gala events, public and school screenings, workshops and discussions. […]

Via Will’s blog and my NYTimes email subscription came this editorial, which sums up exactly what our new MFLE languages project aims to do here in Scotland. Content is no longer king, it’s what we do with content as teachers that matters.
In the week where the Singapore education authorities launched their weblog competition for schools […]

Apple have announced £100 back on any iPod bought between now and October 9th through their website. They’ll also engrave it which is ideal for school security on these highly attractive items.
More advice on using iPods in the languages classroom coming very soon on the MFLE.

The Herald reports that rising levels of student debt and a failure
to encourage pupils to study languages have been blamed for a dramatic fall in the number of Scots attending university abroad.
Figures obtained by The Herald show that participation in the Erasmus
programme – which allows students to earn part of their degree in
Europe – has […]

Via the BBC comes news of Google’s new website which allows users to search all web journals, or blogs, not just those published on the Google-owned blog-writing site, Blogger. For the first time, students will be able to find other students writing about the same things. Could this be a new way of using online learning logs to […]

At the Scottish CILT Outreach day in Dunfermline I mentioned podcasts. These are online radio shows that you can listen to on your computer or on the move with an MP3 player.
Well, RTL, the French broadcaster, are creating some of these podcasts of their programmes. Where school networks slow down under the stress of […]