Blog feedCommunicate.08 – eLanguages, Global Collaboration for Teachers
March 8th, 2008Chris Gallacher from the British Council talked about eLanguages and the capacity to make links and share information and resources.
The eLanguages website allows you to host your own section, see your partner’s information, learn about ICT and learn another language and culture.
You can explore a model project, find out more about why teachers are engaging readily with eLanguages, and sign up as soon as you’re ready.
It should help you on your way to getting your International School Award.
eTwinning is popular in Scotland – one delegate at Communicate.08 is an ambassador for eTwinning and is reponsible for teaching French to the whole of Bute.
Range and choice of languages
Don’t think that your links are restricted only to European languages. Learning and Teaching Scotland and Hanban are working together to forge links between Scotland and China. The Confucius Institute for Scotland is a national centre to promote economic, educational and cultural ties between Scotland and China. Structured as a partnership between the University of Edinburgh and Fudan University in Shanghai, the Institute was officially opened by First Minister, Alex Salmond, in autumn 2007.
Robert McKinstry closed by saying that the world is becoming a more dangerous place and we can’t always send pupils abroad – we can use ICT to meet some of our aims of linking pupils globally.
Find out more
You can read more about making links abroad on the MFLE. Or visit our International Education website.
The site’s been getting really busy recently, with lots of project activity between schools. Here are a couple that were active last week.
I hope they’ll give you some ideas of how you could use eLanguages with your class.
Water – The Mersey and the Yangtze River
Sean Moran from Wade Deacon High School, has outlined a science project between his school and their partner in China. There are some fantastic images and great examples of student work.
http://www.elanguages.org/16991
Our Day
This is a new project set up by Natalie Hadleigh from Lingfield Primary School. Teachers from Poland and Romania have been busy leaving messages and uploading student work about their Day at School.
http://www.elanguages.org/40323
Cheers
Chris
I really enjoyed the session at Communicate.08 and hope the teacher who attended found it useful and are able to go on and use eLanguages to run projects with their partner schools.
The site’s been getting really busy recently, with lots of project activity between schools. Here are a couple that were active last week.
I hope they’ll give you some ideas of how you could use eLanguages with your class.
Water – The Mersey and the Yangtze River
Sean Moran from Wade Deacon High School, has outlined a science project between his school and their partner in China. There are some fantastic images and great examples of student work.
http://www.elanguages.org/16991
Our Day
This is a new project set up by Natalie Hadleigh from Lingfield Primary School. Teachers from Poland and Romania have been busy leaving messages and uploading student work about their Day at School.
http://www.elanguages.org/40323
Cheers
Chris