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ARTinED - A new approach to education using the arts

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Live concert for schools - International European education project

FolkDC live concert in 5…Continue

Started Apr 5

Invitation to EU project FolkDC workshop

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Started Nov 19, 2012

Urgent help please for an EU music and language project (secondary level)

HELP. I urgently need a secondary school in the UK to pilot the amazing PopuLLar project - using students own music in language learning. The project piloting is having great results with students…Continue

Started Nov 18, 2012

 

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ARTinED - A new approach to education using the arts

ARTinED: InvitationARTinED - A new approach to education using the arts http://www.artined.eu/index.htmlis a significant European Union funded education project that has designing innovative methodologies to:To improve the teaching of any primary school subject by using the…See More
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Invitation to EU project FolkDC workshop

Invitation to the EU project FolkDC http://folkdc.eu/ workshop (free) in London on the 5th December near Swiss Cottage tube station.Places are limited so please let me know. See programme at  …See More
Nov 19, 2012
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Introduction to the aPLaNet EU project (from Brno, Czech Republic)

aPLaNet is a European Union funded education project for language educators to help them use social networks and build PLNs for their professional developmen...
Dec 1, 2011
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European Children’s Travelling Language Library final resources

r.e. EU project Eurolib for early language learning The European Children’s Travelling Language Library http://www.eulib.eu/ is a European Union funded education project. It is targeted at children who have recently started to learn a foreign language to:Exposure them to the rich heritage of European languages and culturesBe motivated to learn languagesBuild a love of reading as the…See More
Nov 28, 2011
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Using MS Movie Maker - How to guides

      The European union funded Web2.0ERC project has just made available 4 'How to videos' that show how Microsoft Movie Maker can be used to create videos for educators and how to use the videos in YouTube. The four parts are:1. Still images, titles and sound2. Video clips, effects and…See More
Jul 7, 2011
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I will/do teach the following languages:
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About Me:
The Kindersite is being used in 18,000 schools in 157 countries for EFL and ESL. It consists of Games, songs and stories suitable for early learners.

European Projects
Partner in 17 European Union funded educational projects with an expertise in dissemination and communications over the Internet. The projects are creating resources that can, in most cases, be used globally:

Lullabies from the Cradle - collected 35 Italian, Czech, Romanian, English, Greek, Turkish and Danish lullabies to stimulate language learning published in a book and CD. See all seven animated Videos here .http://www.lullabies-of-europe.org

aPLaNet (Autonomous PLN for language educators) – is answering the questions, what are PLNs, why educators should use them and building a system to mentor new comers in to the networks. http://aplanet-project.org/

Sun.com (new project) – building sustainable social and learning networks for less widely used and spoken European languages.

FolkDC (new project) – using folk songs in 10 European languages to motivate and inspire language learning in early language learners. Culminates in a simultaneous concert, streamed on the Internet, in 4 European locations.

EuroLib - The European Children’s Traveling Language Library, is a European Union funded project.Traveling libraries of the most beautifully illustrated children's books in six European languages will travel from school to school across Europe. http://www.eulib.eu

Web2.0ERC - European Union funded project is designed to help educators who find ICT confusing to have a simple and secure environment to use ICT in their work and in their classes.http://www.web20erc.eu/

eCLIL - eCLIL is European Union funded project to develop and build resources and a resource centre for the use of Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) http://e-clil.uws.ac.uk/

ARGuing project has built a methodology for language educators to use Web 2.0 technology to create and communicate. The project has constructed an Alternate Reality Game for international, multilingual, student, communities to motivate language learning. http://www.arg-education.eu

Chain Stories - The Chain Stories project is for students, in their first year of language learning, so that they can enjoy creative writing in their mother tongue. They then pass on their story to other schools with other languages, within a language family, for completion. http://www.chainstories.eu

The EduComic project has developed web based comics as an alternative instructional medium for learning about literacy and scientific concepts by writing, designing, and publishing original web comic books. - http://www.educomics.org/

Don't Give Up - http://dontgiveup.eu Too many adult language learners drop-out of language courses, the Dont Give Up project offers language schools, course designers and students 48 ways to learn a foreign language successfully. The project has publishing a book of the Best practices. If you are interested in acquiring an ebook copy see http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=24451 .

Autonomous Language Learning - has built Blended Learning language courses in four European languages (Turkish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian) http://www.allproject.info

TOOL for Online and Offline Language Learning - has built Blended Learning language courses in five European languages (Dutch, Estonian, Hungarian, Maltese, Slovene). www.toolproject.eu
I teach languages to these Year groups:
6 - adult

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