Speaking Activities & Using Technology to Develop Oracy in the MFL Classroom,...
I had a great morning talking to ITT trainees at Manchester Metropolitan University. As promised, here is a copy of the slides I used for the session. Do consider joining ALL and Twitter too to carry...
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Turn your new year’s good resolutions into action and save money! Book now...
Prepare for the new year by planning your professional “me time”. This is an invitation to join a great community of language teachers at Language World 2014, Friday 4thApril and Saturday 5th April at...
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Facebook for schools – engaging with parents and wider community
Is your school considering the use of Facebook to support engagement with parents and the wider community? Kinneil Primary school in Falkirk Council won the 11th Worldwide Edublogs Awards for the ‘Best...
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Facebook for schools – engaging with parents and wider community
Is your school considering the use of Facebook to support engagement with parents and the wider community? Kinneil Primary school in Falkirk Council won the 11th Worldwide Edublogs Awards for the ‘Best...
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Engage, Inspire, Empower – language learning and technology
I got back to being a language teacher last night, doing a quick talk and then conversation with some of the teachers participating in our Malta Better Learning with Technologies group. Here is the...
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Unplug from this. Plug back in to that #28daysofwriting
This is Saturday's #28daysofwriting, written on Saturday February 7th, but not typed up until Monday February 9th. Why? At the weekend I make every attempt to unplug from technology. Most of my best...
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Celebrating 10 years of edu.blogs.com – could we have yesterday’s time with...
It's ten years today since I wrote my first blog post for me, and I wish we could have today's thinking with the space and time of a decade ago. 1999 I've blogged since around November 1999, one of...
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Practical Pedagogies Conference, International School of Toulouse (IST),...
I am very excited to be joining the 60+ teachers from all subject areas who will be presenting at the Practical Pedagogies conference organised by @russeltarr at The International School of Toulouse...
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The psychological effect of the internet…
NetworkEffect.io. My friend Lauren puts it this way: 'an ethernet cable into your brain'. I agree. What did it do for you?
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I had a lovely morning today at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys with fellow language teachers and the SANAKO team.As promised, here are the slides I used for the session... Technology in Language...
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Practical Pedagogies Conference, International School of Toulouse (IST),...
I am very excited to be joining the 60+ teachers from all subject areas who will be presenting at the Practical Pedagogies conference organised by @russeltarr at The International School of Toulouse...
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The psychological effect of the internet…
NetworkEffect.io. My friend Lauren puts it this way: 'an ethernet cable into your brain'. I agree. What did it do for you?
View ArticleTechnology In Language Teaching SANAKO Conference, Altrincham Grammar School...
I had a lovely morning today at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys with fellow language teachers and the SANAKO team.As promised, here are the slides I used for the session... Technology in Language...
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Language World 2017-Literature for ALL
I had a great today at Language World with like-minded colleagues.As promised here are the slides I used for My session "Literature for ALL" Literature for ALL LW2017 Nottingham-March 2017 from...
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Language World 2017-Literature for ALL
I had a great today at Language World with like-minded colleagues.As promised here are the slides I used for My session "Literature for ALL" Literature for ALL LW2017 Nottingham-March 2017 from...
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Lessons from Lockdown
Lockdown is continuing to be very hectic and intense for teachers. I have asked my online teacher network about what lockdown has meant for them and this is what I was told… Lockdown has highlighted...
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Twitter Summer Foreign Language Bookclub !
It all started on Twitter… After Jane Basnett, @basnettj asked her Twitter network for suggestions to create a list of French books for French teachers to enjoy over the summer. After posting the link...
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"Music, Rhythm and Grammar-Supporting Recall", TM Modern Foreign Languages...
I had a great time at the TM Modern Foreign Languages event this morning. There certainly was a great variety of topics and presenters and now I am truly buzzing with new ideas...Please find a link...
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