Nummerwang!

You can tell it's getting near to the end of term, as I'm using more and more videos to keep me going! Yesterday whilst teaching my Y9 afterschool German class numbers I remembered Mitchell and Webb's Nummerwang.

Not that much to do with numbers really but good German and a nice bit of fun for 5 pm on a Friday!

Let's see if it works this time (4th time lucky!)

Maybe the link will work since the video won't embed :(

Nummerwang!

L'histoire du poussin

Last night, as I was looking for inspiration to make the Perfect Tense with être more interesting, Kath Holton pointed me in the direction of L'histoire du poussin. It's a lovely little story about the short life of a little chicken, using the MRS VAN DE TRAMP verbs.

My classes liked it today maybe yours will too...

L'histoire du poussin

As for the QR Code. QR Codes are cool, they're what I do now!

eTwinning National Conference 2011

I've just returned from eTwinning's 2011 National Conference at the NCSL in Nottingham. I will blog in more detail about the workshops that I attended later in the week, when I've had time to catch my breath!

I just wanted to write a very quick post to say what a thoroughly inspirational weekend I've had. I've come away from the weekend with my head full of ideas about ways in which I can put in to practice the skills I've learned, both in linking with other schools through eTwinning, of course and also in my day to day teaching.

From the inspiring Key Note speech by Kevin McCabe from Jervoise Primary School, through using QR Codes and hand held devices with Technoteach, Working with bilingual pupils with Lisa Taner and creating virtual journeys in Google Earth with Baldev Singh

Podcasting at Trinity Catholic College

Today I had to enormous privilege to go to Trinity Catholic College in Middlesbrough to share some ideas on Podcasting.

Below is the presentation.

I've included some quotes  from my lovely Y10 French class who have been making Grammar Podcasts over the last year. It gave me the opportunity to experiment with Google Forms to get the survey done. I have to say that I really liked it and can see me having a look in more detail at using Google Forms for pupil voice surveys in the very near future!

I hope that you find the presentation useful in some way.

The second slide contained a little video that Joe Dale showed when I went to a Podcasting Workshop that he ran for Links into Languages last July. It's describes very nicely what a podcasting is and can be seen here Podcasting in Plain English

Podcasting with Pupils 

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