TeachMeetNE09-02

On Wednesday 2nd December Chris Harte and team organised the second TeachMeetNE of the year at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle.
After a hectic journey up the A19 (with a huge delay due to a broken down car!!!) we arrived in good time for the start of proceedings.
Then event was extremely well attended and, as ever the Tyneside Cinema proved to be an excellent location, with wine flowing freely throughout the evening.
There were some amazing presentations by some very amusing and knowledgeable colleagues from the local area and we also had colleagues join us from around the world via Flashmeeting.
I spoke about my top tools to get pupils talking and the presentation is below. Underneath the presentation you will also find links to examples of the tools that I spoke about. It’s so important for we linguists to get our pupils talking and improving their foereign accents but it was really interesting to see that non-linguists were also interested in how they could use some of these tools with their pupils.

Voki: from our eTwinning Project

Voicethread: Very basic-I’m sure you could come up with something much better!

Songsmith: Haben chants

Slideshare: My French Jolly Phoniques Slidecast

Podcasts: Langwitch Radio (German) Radio Langwitch (French)

More information about the TeachMeet09-02 event can be found on the Ning.

Finally I’d like to say thank you to Rosemary for giving me a lift, thus making sure I didn’t need to drive into central Newcastle!

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Yr 8 G&T Podcast

I was over the moon today, when my group of lovely Y8 G&T kids were able to produce the most wonderful podcast in French about their New Year’s Resolutions.
I guided them last week in the production of the language for talking about what they’re going to do and they completed them very proficiently on their own, emailing the completed ones to my specially set up account for them. Then today, with a little prompting, they produded the podcast, using Audacity for our eTwinning Blog Je blogue, tu blogues…let’s blog! What is so great is that I encouraged them to make “noises of agreement” in the background…kind “good idea” etc…in French and one of the girls found a list of that type of phrases on the internet and they added them in.
They even seem keen to set up a podcast similar to the Ramsey Deutsch one (but hopefully with more success!), wanting to choose their own name for it and everything.
Watch this space…
Nos Résolutions du Nouvel An

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