The European Award for Languages Ceremony 2006 will be held in the Chamber of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on the European Day of Languages, 26th September. Award winners will receive their prizes from Sir Trevor McDonald, OBE, who is the patron of CILT, the National Centre for Languages. Peter Peacock, Minister for Education and […]

For a technical reason (i.e. we don’t really know why) the Marc Prensky keynote seems to be cut short in the podcasts section. I’m working hard to work out why and resolve the issue. Thanks for bearing with us.

The USA government has made language learning a priority again, the first time since the 60s according to Always Learning Blog. The initial interest was in overcoming the issues brought by the Cold War. Now it’s the economy that’s heating up and needing languages to keep the US at the top of the pile. Perhaps […]

Audrey Tautou of Amelie fame stars in the Da Vinci Code, out in the movies this Friday night featuring my favourite actress and Tom Hanks. The film provides an amazing array of learning opportunities in the domain of French culture, art history, religious and moral educaction, history… Here is one of my ideas. What could […]

Time is drawing to a
close for competition entries in the Starwatch competition.  Entries close
on 1 June 2006, and winning projects will enjoy a trip to Germany during the
World Cup.
 
This European
initiative aims to encourage language learning through the creation of projects
promoting fitness, nutrition and football and using the languages of the
Starwatch partners: Czech, Dutch, English, German […]

If your school is involved in imaginative curriculum-based international work, it may be eligible for an International School Award
(ISA). The ISA scheme offers a framework within which to form and
develop international partnerships and achieve curriculum goals. It
recognises and rewards the integration of global issues and awareness
into the curriculum and encourages and supports schools in: embedding
an […]

The Subject Centre has launched a new CD designed to excite, educate and encourage young people to continue with their language learning in KS4 and beyond. The Why Study Languages CD is divided into two parts. ‘Language Lab’ is aimed at pupils in KS3 and 4 and contains quizzes, language facts, learning style tests that […]

The MFLE has just launched its own World Cup 2006 section, including links to existing quality resources, audio and video and internet challenges surrounding the World Cup and football in general.
Is there something we’ve missed? A great resource you could upload to us for inclusion? Let us know here in the comments or upload your […]

  scotedublogmeetup    Originally uploaded by Edublogger.
We are trying to arrange for a wee meetup of Scottish edubloggers, educators, noneducating bloggers - anyone who fancies some nice drinks with some nice people. It’ll be this May 24 in Edinburgh, with our inaugural guest as Will Richardson.
If you want to join us […]

I’m just about to set off to the Shetland Isles for the last Outreach session of
the year. How do you get from Leith to Shetland in 44 minutes? Why, on
the Number 22 bus, of course. I’ll be using the latest video
conferencing technology to run a session on the MFLE for our friends at
the northern most […]