Petite Pipelette's Posterous

MFL KS2-3 Transition

Tue, 22 May 2012 02:44:00 -0700

Below find some extra links which you may find interesting follow on reading after our debrief.

We hope that you have enjoyed participating in the Primary-Secondary KS2-3 Transition Project this year and thank you all for your enthusiasm and collaborative spirit!

Suzi and Sally

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FYI This conference at The University of Aston on Tuesday 3rd July may also be of interest:

http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/network-for-languages/transitions-conference/

It may be worth contacting mick.james@aston.ac.uk to ask if there is a trainee teacher reduction - currently the early bird fee (before 31st May) is £95

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LA VOZ -The Voice (Emma Atkinson) PGCE MFL Trainee

Thu, 17 May 2012 12:24:00 -0700

Here are Emma's resources and music links should they be of interest to you. You can visit her blog here: http://emmaatk.posterous.com/

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Developing Independence in MFL / Creative Use of ICT - York LA Training

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:33:00 -0700

I hope you find today useful - please share this with your departments and don't be shy to email me any questions or comments or to ask for supporting documentation.

York_LA_Independent_L&T_MFL_Presentation.pptx Download this file

Using_ICT_creatively_in_MFL_LA_training_jan2012.docx Download this file

Suzi

suzi.bewell@york.ac.uk

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ALL #LW2012 / LANGUAGES - Where Next? - Nottingham Network for Languages - Wednesday 29th February 2012

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:15:00 -0800

Please find below most of the materials relating to my presentation on The Importance of Intercultural Understanding (Content vs. Culture?) from today.

I am looking forward to a really exciting, information-packed day with lots of opportunities to network with like-minded languages lovers. What better way to spend a day!

Regards,

Suzi

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Get_Real!_Using_Skype_to_connect.pdf Download this file

Going_to_school_in_Senegal.ppt Download this file

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Live Tweets - MFL trainee York

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:07:05 -0800

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MFL Show n Tell - #mfltwitterati language loving stalkers and techie weirdos?

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:58:00 -0800

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#ililc2 ICT Links into Languages ICT Conference, Southampton

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:27:00 -0800

Great start with Joe Dale giving a fantastic key note called "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Box Out!" This session is being live streamed and you can find the video footage here: http://coursecast.soton.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=a92de052-3... So lovely to see all of the #mfltwitterati! More later Suzi Session 1 Carole Nicoll - Song! Rap! Humour! Motivating ways of making your classroom rock. Teaching speaking as a group activity? Via song. It all started with Carolw taking her daughter to a boyzone conference!!! Intonation and pronunciation covered. Project with local school children in Aberdeen schools. Children are connected to music and motivated by it Baby byoncé video clip. Genius. Baby boy earning Beatles Song. Auditory cortex - stays there forever. "Korean Baby" Eddie Izzard - French clip. Now for some joining in... Football song in Spanish Body Parts in Italian Buenos días. Buenas tardes. Pencil case action song French. (give me hope in my heart keep me singing) Available to download and buy on iTunes. Every song has a Karaoke version. Comedy value in the form of the "In my briefcase" song!!! We also watched The Choir - Urban Edit "Sense of sound." - funky streetwise choir. Primary videos of children using their knowledge of language from songs. Colours song German. "Welche Farbe ist das? J'al les cheveux song Derrière, deviant song. Vamos Chicas. Now we are well and truly warmed up. Tears at the end of the session watching the Albert Hall clips of The Choir! Awesome. Music even reaches the tough nuts!!! Elevator clip at end - the wonders of technology. Memory recall. Www.language-factory.co.uk Www.carolenicoll.com ITunes Carole Nicoll - 500 language learning songs Carole is on twitter @CaroleNicoll317 Session 2 I do, I understand. - Clare Seccombe Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember Involve me and I'll understand. Building on ks2 experiences - aim for smooth and seamless and built on firm foundations. Primary learning is often characterised by active learning. Clip on YouTube - passive learning. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone for some pupil led learning??? Flash cards and working with a friend. Dominoes and Shape Puzzles. Help sheet for MFL teachers also available. Spanish Fiestas linked to months of year. Continuous loop. Pairs to work this out...Insert photos. Human Dominoes. Line large dominoes up on the floor. Group according to gender etc. Then as a group do the domino task. Shape puzzles using Tarsia formulator - pictures and words or sentences. Starter and Plenary puzzles also on MFL Sunderland. Mac version available! Yippee. Trash or Treeasure sorting exercise. ¿tresoro o basura? Poubelle ou coffre? Insert photo - classification activity. Basic primary egs but so much potential for secondary! eg verbs and tenses. Decisions Decisions - Barbapapa in Dutch. Using trash or treasure board - what did you see on the video? Number fans and split pins - plenaries cinq plus deux? Grid in rainbow colours - great assessment tool. Human graphs Stand in the correct place and assess orally once students are in place. Need a large space. Lines Using physical washing lines or standing in line with cards. Multi link cubes or duplo / Lego Amazing links to pictures and using bricks for kids to order the activities. V memorable learning. ¡Zas! ¡Paf! Kids splat the correct hand picture. Singing and MFL Un grand serf example with actions. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results." Changing phase site Spanish@stpauls Ideas education Sponsored Slots - Sparklespeak BonjourMilo! Stories. Delegates get a free sample disc in #ililc2 goodie bags. 33% off during the show. Currently in French with a longer term aim of developing the stories in other languages. warm up video to enter Milo's world. Each disc contains print outs of Milo and Amélie Characters. Lots of repetition and developed on the idea of the power of 3. Storyslider idea. This is brilliant! www.youtube.com/sparklespeak Collection of Classroom Language Songs Cheap and Cheerful Songwriting Stuart Gorse MFL Teacher Lancaster LGS @gorsey mrgorse@aol.com www.youtube.com/mrgorse Stuart's philosophy on learning and teaching is quite something! Stuart knows what's going down, brother... www.dicodesrimes.com Stuart showed us @mfe146 Mike Elliot's fantastic video clip called 'La Santé". You can find it here: http://mikeelliott.posterous.com/sante-quand-jetais-jeune Arsenal double club competition: Catchy tune, attractive prize, topical with a chorus in English around the theme of the Olympics. We then heard some extracts from Stuart's super talented sixth form students 'la veuve Saverini' based on a short story (Guy de Maupassant) had read in class. The Ramones and El Pueblo - an example from Stuart's punk rock band. Blitz Lipscreen Bop - shouty punk. Mama Mia rendition of a French song about daily routine. Green Day Good riddance - Quelles étaient les meilleures vacances de ta vie? Using backing track via karaoke version. See YouTube: This clip is fabulous! Many more YouTube clips to be found on Gorsey's channel. Day 2 Keynote José Picardo - Embracing social media The nub of José's keynote is that there has always been a reluctance to change when talking about freedom of communication - examples of the printing press, postal service , allowing calculators in lessons and even having rubbers on the ends of pencils. The Internet is not going anywhere and so we should embrace this and make the most of the tools around us. Danger - thin ice! Technology and rigour are both possible. http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/prensky%20-%20digital%20natives,%20digital... Interesting research by Prensky on Digital Natives and Digital immigrants Pupils these days are producers of social media as well as consumers these days. Is banning tech in lessons a good idea? Are there positive ways of using tech in lessons as pupils have this tech in their pockets. Twitter en 1991 - insert photo http://nearwen.com/2012/01/twitter-en-1991/ Bad behaviour (not passing for example) has always occurred - it is NOT the fault of the tools. Knock down the school walls and bridge the gap between school and home. Learning on demand. Child centred learning - adapt your teaching to the way pupils learn. Do what is right or the Learners! Technology allows you to do new things in new ways. How to get around the 'it will never work' mentality? Enhancement to Transformation. Voki as a gimmick. Then used for setting speaking as homework. No need to take out 2 lessons to do this with individual pupils. Dept Blog, glossier, blogging on trips, Flickr page to share photos, Facebook page, Sixth form and staff tweeters, Edmodo... Use of social media has meant that there is a big buzz about languages in José's school. Tools used alongside good teaching. josepicardo.com and @josepicardo on Twitter

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NUT conference - RECT 2012 27-29 January 2012

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:50:00 -0800

Last month I got an email from my Union asking if I would like to attend the 2012 Regional Early Career Teachers conference at the Hilton in Gateshead. The programme looked good with a focus on SEN, Behaviour Management and Ofsted new assessment. All of these being hot topics in ITE, I decided to attend and left Mr Bewell home alone with the kids for the weekend. Win! On arrival, I firstly observed that I was definitely at the older end of Early Career Teacher!!! Joking aside, I had a great weekend and am now keen to get more involved with the work of my union, who are desperate for new, even and young(er) active members. The people I met were engaging, intelligent and keen to learn and the training was of a very high quality. The resources from the event can be found here: http://www.rect.org.uk/ I hope you find them useful. If, like me, you have never attended a Union CPD event, my advice would be to go for it. I am now hoping to attend another event in late Marg linked to International Development work... Always learning. All the best, Suzi

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MFL Publications this week

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:02:00 -0800

What a busy week it has been. Below please find links to 3 articles which I wrote linked to MFL Learning and Teaching. I hope you find the content useful. Please, as always, feel free to leave a comment or a question if you need any clarification.

Best wishes to you all,

Suzi

The Importance of Intercultural Understanding in MFL

http://www.boardworks.co.uk/mfl_694

Intercultural_understanding_activity_download-2.pdf Download this file

Skype makes sense!

http://bit.ly/w53ceu

ICT in MFL (Rethinking Homework) - see page 10

http://tinyurl.com/SECEDICTMFL

MFL_ICT_SecEd-1.pdf Download this file

With thanks to @pwhenshaw from SecEd for allowing me to publish this.

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ILILC T-shirts!

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:34:00 -0800

Ok mfltwitterati, it was suggested this evening that I make t-shirts for the conference and I am happy to so (as long as there are just a few of us!!!)

Please leave a comment with size requirements below and I will get onto this asap.

I think we can have our twitter names on front and avatar /photo along with the mfltwitterati hash tag and then ililc and hash tag on back...How does that sound?

Will try and source the t-shirts this weekend - should be no more than £5 each...

Ooh I do love to sew and craft!

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Excellent CPD opportunity in Nottingham for Languages Teachers

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:08:00 -0800

Dear all

I wil be speaking at this conference and said that I would promote it as it is going to be an amazing day filled with inspiring talks which will hopefully give you that well needed boost in the cold, wintery months...where even I lack enthusiasm some days!!!

Best
Suzi

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ICT session - PGCE MFL Partnership CPD

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:04:00 -0800

Please find below the direct hyper links for today's session. I hope this will be of real value to you and I would appreciate your feedback (below in the form of a comment or as an email suzi.bewell@york.ac.uk ).

There is a lot more CPD to be had on this blog from the many training opportunities I have over the last 2 years - I also hope that this may be of use to you.

If you have any further teaining needs or requests, don't be shy, ask away!

Maybe we can run a further session in the summer term, say mid June?

Have a great session!
Suzi and Team MFL PGCE helpers

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Amelie lit 'Je m'habille et je te croque!'

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:25:00 -0800

Amelie is very fond of this book and today wanted to be recorded reading this, her second story. This is a great one for early language learners focussing on clothes and there are quite a few tricky sounds to exploit too.

What I find particularly interesting is that even at age 6, after only being taught how to read and recognise the link between sound and spelling quite recently (compared to most of the secondary age pupils I taught), Amelie still sometimes struggles to remember that 'an' is pronounced with a nasal sound unlike in English. What amazes me further is that she is already able to self correct...and actually gets quite cross with herself when she pronounces it wrong!!! See how she shakes the book in frustration.

It is also interesting to note that Amelie is so used to NOT pronouncing final silent consonants when she reads them that she says 'mon t-shir(t)' dropping the final 't' - this is quite advanced for a 6 year old, I feel.

Please leave her a friendly, encouraging comment below and who knows you may see more stories here soon.

Best

Suzi

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Amelie lit 'A la mer'

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:31:00 -0800

I have wanted to blog about this for a while but there never seems to be time...

Amelie my daughter, 6, has 2 English parents ... I always say that I dreamt of having a French husband and bilingual kiddies running around my Parisian home, and then I met Mr B (half English, half Norwegian), fell head over heals and the rest is history.

I was still determined to give both of my children a head start in languages and with the help of Andre and Nadege, our amazing French nounous, Amelie and Gabriel (now 4) were exposed to French 3 days a week for about 2 years until the time came for them to start school.

I wondered if we would keep the French going (and it hasn't been easy) but we have...Amelie in particular is keen and picked up a French story book a few weeks ago and insisted that she read it to me. Initially, I was a bit worried that her phonic awareness of French was not advanced enough but I think you will see from the clip below that I had very little to worry about. I particularly like the confident manner in which she ends the video!!!

Amelie has only just learned to read in English so I think that her early exposure to French has a lot to do with her accent and seemingly 'natural' ability to decode the French sounds. My head spins if I think about it too much...

I am a very proud mummy and I am sure Amelie would love to hear what you think of her French storytelling. She LOVED being videoed toinght and I am sure there will be more to come!

Thanks in advance for your comments - they will make her day.

Suzi x

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Network for Languages LONDON, Intercultural Understanding course

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:03:00 -0800

Hello again ... It has been a while.

Over the next few days I will fill in the gaps and write around the PPT presentations below, but as I know many of you are keen to include as much IU into your languages lessons as possible, I decided to blog the resources first and foremost and will add some meat to the bones tomorrow.

The course was excellent and a super turn out for a saturday morning. Someone had even flown in from Ireland!!!

Here is the PPT from the key note address, which was a great start to the day:

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The sessions x 4 were divided into Primary and Secondary.

Primary:

Intercultural_understanding_Philip_Campagna.pdf Download this file

Secondary:

Network_for_Languages_London_Copyright_statement.pdf Download this file

Luisa_Ribeiro_and_Andrew_Terrey_Celebrating_languages_and_cultural_diversity-_Final.pdf Download this file

Dr_Robin_Cramner.pdf Download this file

I will update again tomorrow night.

In the meantime, I hope there is something to interest you.

And for more information on high quality, affordable training for MFL teachers, I would strongly recommend you visit:

http://networkforlanguages.org.uk/#/regional-centres/4549897477

Suzi

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The Languages Show 2011

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:57:00 -0700

As I am writing this post, it is hard to believe it has been a whole year since the last Languages Show. What a year it has been! The show was as fantastic as ever - some would ask why would you want to give up 3 days of your life to attend (and maybe I am a sad INSET junkie), but it is one of the highlights of my year and I don't actually see it as work. It was a chance to see what is going on in the world of languages at the moment but, more importantly, to catch up face to face with the people I often refer to as my 'MFL Dream Team'!

So, here are some of the highlights of the 3 days starting with Friday...

FRIDAY - DAY 1

I arrived bright and early and as well as having a good look around the stands, my plan was to attend the following sessions:

-Talk to me! Crystal clear ideas to get students talking, Rachel Hawkes

Rachel's presentation can be found below:

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Rachel is an inspiration to many, myself included and I wouldn't leave home at 5.30am for just anyone!!!

My favourite ideas from the session were:

'What's the question?' (in my experience, pupils need lots of practice of asking questions as well as answering them),

"Count the number of words in your sentence" (which my trainee PGCE MFLers love),

"Morph" (to encourage pupils to create a voiceover)

and

"The dustbin task" (due to its open-ended nature).

You can find more of Rachel's excellent resources and ideas which she shares freely at www.rachelhawkes.com

-TXtspk in lang lrng - LOL, Wendy Adeniji

Wendy's session on Text Speak in MFL was also very inspiring and with her say so, I am hoping to be able to pass on some of the resources in the coming days... I am 35 and spend far too much time on my mobile (texting, blogging and tweeting, not much talking actually) and I get the impression that many of the youngsters that we teach are the same. It seems that this would be an interesting avenue to explore as it touches on a topic that is dear to pupils' hearts so it makes sense to tap into that and exploit it in the MFL context.

In the meantime, some useful websites to explore on this theme are:

French:

http://mylo.dcsf.gov.uk/Basic/French/FR_L0_M3.3

German:

http://www.whystudylanguages.ac.uk/txtspk

http://mylo.dcsf.gov.uk/Basic/German/GE_L0_M3.3

Spanish:

http://mylo.dcsf.gov.uk/Basic/Spanish/SP_L0_M3.3

UPDATED: With Wendy's permission, here are the resources in 3 languages. See more of her resources www.ilanguages.com and www.trainingforlearning.com You will also find useful information on high quality training opportunities which revolve around 'teaching the usual in an unusual way!'

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-Gotta sing! Music in the MFL classroom, John Connor

John's session was everything i was hoping for and more. I failed to take notes as I was too busy participating and pinning a velcro horse onto John's felt pinny! I think @joedale has photographic evidence on Flickr somewhere...

The highlight of John's session was definitely the Brown Bear song in Spanish.

I will contact John and see if he is happy to share his PPT.

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Here it is:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/70875519/Using-Music-in-Language-Lessons-1

-Revealing the Essential Core, Bernadette Holmes

Bernadette Holmes - what a woman and what an exceptional speaker and language enthusiast. Initially, I wasn't sure if I would attend this session but I am really glad I did. Bernadette is a real believer in cross curricular learning and CLIL. Her session contained so many great ideas and I plan to contact her to see if she, too, is happy to share her PPT. Watch this space.

Authentic resources at KS3 - too hot, Martine Pillette

I have long been a fan of Martine's work even before we ever met and I was still working as a regular classroom teacher. As a native French speaker, she has so much 'inside information' relating to France and French speaking culture, so I was keen to see what she would present at the show. The main ideas, relating to the environment, are part of a new KS3 resource which she has produced called 'J'écoute et je lis avec petite chérie" (see http://www.goldendaffodils.co.uk/jecoute_et_je_lis.php)

Below you can access some of the sample materials which Martine presented at the Languages Show will hopefully give you a flavour of what looks to be a really exciting resource:

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Feuille_2.pdf Download this file

Here is a video clip showing an extract from the DVD (Le Voyage d'une goutte d'eau)

and more can be found on Youtube (see associated clips):

Related YouTube clips which I came across are also included below:

In honesty, I never really enjoyed teaching the topic of environment as I didn't manage to find a meaningful way to do so, but perhaps these engaging resources would fill that gap.

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MFLSat+

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:52:00 -0700

MFLSat+

Session 1

@markpurves www.souffler.com

Mark Purves – Singing Tribes

The session started with a song about body parts to a catchy jig.

Song is an accelerator and helps language to stick! It lifts your mood. Fact!

Mark suggested injecting short bursts of music into your lesson at various points.

We were shown some simple breathing exercises which focus on pulling in the stomach and opening up the throat.

Mark suggested reading ‘How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything’ by Ken Robinson who is a big fan of creativity in the classroom.

Mark also had us on our feet for a second and final time and showed us how he sings praise phrases with actions to his pupils.

They all sang ‘Fantastique Suzi!’, with a wiggle to boot! I went pink! I think Chris Harte has photographic evidence….

Session 2

@spanishsam

Sam Lunn - Routines and Maximum TL

Spanish Sam presented a high energy session entirely in Spanish showing how to teach opinions. It transpired that she does this every lesson as part of her register routine. I think she may need a long lie down at the end of the day!!!

Session 3

@titchylynn

Lynn Smith - Thinking Skills

Lynn Smith presented a session on thinking skills and the need to confuse your pupils and how letting them make mistakes can lead to better understanding in the longer term.

Ideas included odd one out, categorisation (verbs, nouns, adjectives), memory maps, de Bonos hats (facts, positive, negative, creative) – place sentences in the correct category. Picture images can also be used and then pupils are given one of the four roles from de Bono’s hats and are asked to contribute a sentence commenting on the picture e.g. of Gerard Depardieu. They could also create a mind map as part of the plenary to show what they have learned in today’s lesson. Excellent ideas!

Session 4

@valleseco

www.changing-phase.blogspot.com

Clare Seccombe - Story Telling in Primary

Apologies I was listening so hard, I forgot to type! Loads of ideas and resources on Clare's amazing website - well worth a look!

Session 5

Emma Bains - New Curriculum KS3

@bains_1

www.bouncingkumquat.blogspot.com

e.bains@westwood.coventry.sch.uk

Westwood School

Emma presented some ideas from their new SoL e.g. a topic on Sat Nav in French. Another theme was fashion (as opposed to Clothes). There was a really nice idea for playing Cluedo in Spanish.

Session 6

@simcloughlin

Simon McLoughlin - Audioboo

Simon was winging it! He went to a party last night instead of preparing for today...good man! Simon presented www.audioboo.fm and showed us, via his class blog, how he has used it with his Primary classes. You can see examples here: www.class12.hotspurblogs.net

We also got to watch and laugh at the Joey from Friends speaking French clip - LOL!!!

Session 7

Thomas Snell, Newcastle University resources

www.teacherstoolkit.com

www.universed.co.uk (from Newcastle University)

www.linguacast.ncl.ac.uk

Linguacast Days - visit www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/northeast/eventss.html

Session 8

@misstdunne www.misstdunne.com

Terri Dunne - Blockbusters

The templates will go into the MFLSAT Dropbox.

Terri showed us several ways of using Blockbusters to promote speaking in the MFL lesson.

Session 9

@dominic_mcg

1.www.wallwisher.com

2.www.classtools.net - Fakebook

3.www.classtools.net Twister - fake twitter

4.www.classtools.net - random name generator / question generator

5.Random letter generator

6.www.wikispaces.com - wikis

7.Blogs

8.clea.nr (only works with chrome and firefox)

9.Puppets

10.MOM - mug of misery POP - pot of participation

Love Dom's dry presenting style - more lucky lucky pupils!

Session 8

@amandasalt www.amandasalt.blogspot.com

Amanda Salt - Spanish Immersion Residential

Amanda spoke about a cheap and cheerful immersion weekend for her A level pupils. Activities include treasure hunt, DVDs, songs, quizzes and Dragon's Den.

Sounds like an amazing experience for pupils and teachers alike.

Session 9

@blagona

Alex Blagona - The story of 8B/Fr1

Demotivated, disinterested....

Asked them what they thought they needed to do to get better at French - comments posted on wallwisher.com and set own targets.

Rate my teacher idea - Alex asked his pupils to rate his lessons and explain their ratings. Brave move, non?

Alex felt the need to change his style of teaching to suit them rather than the other way around.

The purpose of all this was to establish a dialogue with pupils.

Q. What do I need to change to help them to 'get it' and move on in their learning?

When marking books, Alex can respond to comments especially if this implies a lack of understanding.

Also provides feedback for parent's evenings.

Alex can then sit pupils in particular groups so that they are separated according to ability.

Have a go!

Session 10

@joedale

Joe Dale - Using QR codes in MFL

Joe's presentation can be found here:

http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2011/07/ipod-touch-train...

Session 11

@suzibewell

Suzi Bewell (moi!) - Do you Vocaroo?

See the next post down on this page for my presentation.

Session 12

@icpjones

Isabelle Jones - Creative projects

Isabelle spoke to us via Skype about some creative projects she has been involved in in Oldham to motivate her reluctant boy learners.

She shared an impressive rap song that they had produced. It is available in the MFLDropbox.

Session 13

@rene_koglbauer

Rene Koglbauer - Social Networking (Facebook) to improve boys' writing.

Session 14

@bellale

Alex Bellars - Dojo, Triptico and Lingro

Dojo:Rewards and Sanctions

At the end of the lesson, kids can see the whole class performance. Can be downloaded and shared with form tutors and parents.

Lingro:Help with complicated reading texts

Type your website into Lingro and it will take you back to the site and add a gloss for any words you are unsure of.

Triptico: Word tiles, Class Timer, Random Group creator, Scoreboards, Question Quiz,

@david_triptico

Plenary

Stephen Fawkes delivered by @CHarte

Food for thought via Adam Ant 'Don't you ever...'

Awesome day. Feeling inspired. Learned loads. Can't wait to pass some of this on to my lovely new cohort!

Roll on the next one wherever it may be.

Suzi

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MFLSAT+ Do you vocaroo? (Speaking for HW in MFL)

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:51:00 -0700

Here is my presentation as promised.

If you need any help getting started with any of the websites, please feel free to email me and I'll do my best to help.

All the best,

Suzi

www.twitter.com/suzibewell

suzi.bewell@york.ac.uk

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Women Rock! International Women's Day.

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:31:00 -0800

@globaldimension on Twitter linked to this clip earlier today and it actually made me cry.

I hope you like it.

A hundred years on, look how far us women have come?

I struggle on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis to be wonderwoman - sometimes with more success than others.

It made me realise that I am a strong and capable woman and so are you. I am good and I am enough.

Pat your self on the back. You rock! Go tell a friend she rocks too. Celebrate women.

Suzi

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The Importance of Intercultural Understanding

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:36:00 -0800

Gosh it has been a while since I blogged - I joke that I could do with a clone, but I'm not sure if I am actually joking or being serious!!!

A busy life is a happy life, isn't that how the saying goes?

I spoke about the Importance of Intercultural Understanding at the fabulous Links into Languages ICT conference earlier this month and have been meaning to add links to some of the useful videos and books I mentioned in my session.

I will add to this over the coming weeks, but here is the book list and a few thought provoking You Tube videos which links with the rights of the child and specifically to the right to an education. If you haven't seen the website for 1 Goal, Send my Sister to School then you really should.

http://www.sendmyfriend.org/

Video links:

le Droit à l'éducation - Les petits citoyens

One Minute: Classroom in a village - Une classe dans un village - Senegal Africa

Les rêves de Juanita - Plan Belgique

Je ne suis qu’une fille

Les ambitions des filles - UNICEF

http://www.youtube.com/user/join1goal#p/u

1Goal

Books:

(published by MILAN JEUNESSE, sourced from www.amazon.fr )

Les écoles du monde

L'eau dans le monde

Les familles du monde

De toi à moi

J'habite ici

Les jeux du monde (currently unavailable)

Les maisons du monde, Stéphanie Ledou

I am working my way through all the different rights and linking them to typical KS3 / GCSE topics so watch this space. Next themes are most likely to be SHELTER, PLAY and FOOD/DRINK.

Happy half term, folks.

Suzi Bewell

Please leave your comments below or email me directly suzi.bewell@york.ac.uk with feedback or if you have any questions

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