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The website will be down for a few days while the server transfer takes place, but do call them on their new number if you have any queries.
As from 1 April 2009 their new offices will be in the Crawfurd Building, Jordanhill Campus, University of Strathclyde.
After a festive break - the latest video podcast episode from MFLE will be published every Monday until Easter.
This week’s episode: Lifestyle - Elvira Vivanco chats about the disappearance of her Pico neighbourhood in Santa Monica.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/mflblogsandpodcast/podcast/index.asp?
A complete step-by-step guide to making your own podcast. Specially created for introducing MFL teachers to the delights of podcasting and highlighting its potential uses in the classroom.
Available from Sharing practice on MFLE
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/sharingpractice/ict/index.asp?
LTS Spanish Language podcasts: Immigration - Language barriers in the playground
Salvadorean Nancy Arévalo remembers what it was like to be in a new country where she didn’t speak either English or the Mexican Spanish spoken by everyone else in the playground.
You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes
0r watch and download on MFLE website
or even watch and subscribe through YouTube if you like.
Our latest podcast - LTS Spanish Languages - is a series of 17 short movies on what it means to be Latino in modern America. The episodes have been split into Intermediate and Advanced based on the complexity of the topic and language.
The topics include Immigration, Aspirations, Family, Identity and Freetime.
We hope to release an episode a week over the next few months and you can stay up to date with these Spanish podcasts by subscribing to the RSS feed.
The first two episodes are available to watch now. You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes
0r watch and download on MFLE website
or even watch and subscribe through YouTube if you like.
Confucius Classrooms has published a series of video case studies on how Perth High School approached the topic.
MFLE has published two new sharing practice examples.
Perth High School - Developing the Chinese theme- for their International Education programme and Rashielea Primary- Creating links with a primary school in China - How Rashielea primary created cultural links with Tianjin Experimental Primary School.
A major project which began by developing French language in the school and flourished into a whole school project combining Expressive arts, Literacy and Social subjects. The ideas came from the children themselves and gave the school the freedom to try out some principles of Curriculum for Excellence.
You can watch the movie of the project on MFLE
Read how Rashielea Primary School overcame obstacles to create strong cultural links with Tianjin Experimental Primary School in China, from the Confucius classrooms website.
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