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Jo Rhys-Jones's Blog – July 2007 Archive (4)

ICT in MFL - Joe Dale's Isle of Wight Conference

If you can get yourself over to the Isle of Wight on Saturday 13th October 2007 you can do a lot worse than spend £50 on some excellent CPD about using ICT in the MFL classroom. Joe Dale is hosting his Isle of Wight Conference at Nodehill Middle School and will be covering topics including; "blogging, podcasting , digital video , eTwinning , primary languages , whole class teaching with PowerPoint , whiteboards/classroom performance system ,…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on July 16, 2007 at 21:49 — 2 Comments

Top Ten Tips for Nervous Non-specialists

Ok so I am not exactly a nervous non-specialist myself, but I know a few (well a lot actually) who are, so here are some of my top tips. If anyone would like to add to this please do so - all contributions will be gratefully received!

Get help with pronunciation: Any good commercial scheme of work should come with a CD with a pronunciation guide for ALL the vocabulary needed. Also see what your LA can suggest - in Devon if your school…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on July 16, 2007 at 0:10 — 4 Comments

Football, MFL and Chris Fuller's Project

Calling North Devon schools! (and schools from any of the countries that will be taking part in Euro '08 of course!)...

I met up yesterday with Chris Fuller who told me all about his exciting International project based around football and Internationalism. It's designed to be easy-to-run on teacher's part but lots of fun and communication for the children. If you click this link it will take you to Chris' Edgehill blog and…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on July 12, 2007 at 10:02 — No Comments

Making recordings - mp3, sound editing, podcasting and all that Jazz!

These are the confessions of a digital novice:

Until yesterday I admit I have recorded and allowed the children to record themselves either using a tape recorder (or ‘walkman’ in ye olde englishe) or sometimes that dusty machine I found in the KS1 classroom that you slide a flashcard in to hear the sound, child repeats…

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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on July 6, 2007 at 19:00 — 4 Comments