Presenter - Wendy Adeniji, freelance ICT trainer and consultant, Bradford
What this workshop’s about
Wendy looks at how we can move away from ‘Death by Powerpoint’ and use the interactive whiteboard effectively to encourage use of the target language, to teach and reinforce grammar and to create activities that motivate pupils.
The workshop
Wendy is from Yorkshire and worked […]

Kath Holton leads a workshop on the myriad of ways you can use digital voice recorders and fun plug-ins like Voki on your school blog or website, in an effort to improve students’ performance in foreign language speaking.
The MFLE already carries some ideas on using digital voice recorders in the preparation of speaking assessments, but […]

The international dimension of learning, says the British Council’s John Low, is all about belonging to a community. It’s about seeing the importance and opportunity within an international community. It’s about preparing youngsters for jobs we can’t visualise in places we don’t know yet. The British Council’s Global Gateway programme helps set up the kind […]

Professor Richard Johnstone continues to be in awe of what new technologies permit language learners of 2008 to do, things which back in his 1950s school career would be only a dream.
In the 1950s language was taught as a written code, with the technology of a course book, jotter, pencil, dictionary and a ‘reader’. It […]

Margaret Cassidy from Stirling’s ICT Team talks this afternoon about Crazy Talk, software which allows you to transform illustrations and photographs into (almost walking) talking videos.
Margaret’s been working with LTS’s Consolarium on integrating Crazy Talk across the curriculum and at Communicate.08 will show how it’s being used in Modern Languages. While we wait to catch […]

With one month left until the deadline for the Languages and Film Talent Awards (the LAFTAs), there is still time to get your entries in.
There have been several exciting developments in the competition during the last month, including a range of new prizes and sponsors. Apple and the French Embassy have teamed together to donate two prizes […]

Barnhill Primary in Dundee have been planning ways that they can start involving more French language in their moves towards achieving the outcomes of the Curriculum for Excellence. The city’s staff tutors explain more.

Becta, the government agency leading the national drive to improve learning through technology, has launched the ICT Excellence Awards 2008 to seek out the best and brightest schools that are using technology to help learners achieve.
The ICT Excellence Awards aims to identify and reward schools throughout the UK approaching ICT in outstanding or innovative ways, […]

Communicate, the annual ICT conference organised by Scottish CILT and Learning and Teaching Scotland, will be held on Saturday March 8, 2008, in the Management Centre at the University of Stirling.
You can view the programme on the MFLE website. The cost is £95.
If you are interested in attending, please email Amanda Reeman-Clark at Scottish CILT (amanda.reemanclark@stir.ac.uk).
If you […]

Dundee Staff Tutors are interested to see how senior students’ vocabulary learning will progress after starting to use the Nintendo DS gaming console with My Word Coach in Spanish. [link]