Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Nov 15, 2009, 4:46 pm
This is the presentation I shared for the MFL Show & Tell in Coventry on Saturday 14th November. A slidecast is on its way when I get the chance to put it together...Favourite Tools For Cpd In The Lan...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Nov 5, 2009, 4:36 pm
The use of authentic online videos inside as well as outside the languages classroom can be very motivating for students. It brings languages to life and can also motivate through the originality and ...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Nov 1, 2009, 4:55 am
The MFL Flashmeeting is back, with lots to discuss-The London Language Show is finishing today- and lots to look forwards to-The Coventry MFL Show & Tell in 2 weeks’ time. To join, please click her...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Oct 30, 2009, 6:37 pm
The London Language Show attracts many language professionals including teachers as well as language students. It is free and it is held at Kensington Olympia 2. It started today, Friday 30th October,...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Oct 27, 2009, 2:44 pm
(Independent Study Learning Grid, University of Warwick-layout for more independent learning?) When I found out about Cramlington’s FLIP approach for languages, I got quite excited as I had been th...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Oct 21, 2009, 7:37 am
Image Chef is a wordle-like application that also has a "Visual Poetry" section with pre-defined shapes for arranging the words. A Calligramme is a poem arranged in the shape of a picture related to t...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Oct 18, 2009, 2:40 pm
FLIP stands for Flexible Learner-led Intervention Personalised. It is a daring approach that consisted in getting rid 1/3 of the content taught in MFL to concentrate on developing independent learning...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Oct 13, 2009, 5:45 pm
I came across this post on languages learning a few days ago. It is from The linguist on Language blog, run by Steve Kaufman. I found interesting the key issues that were raised, showing that many of ...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Oct 9, 2009, 4:46 pm
I had very enjoyable and productive day today with some of my fellow Oldham MFL teachers. The Focus was on ideas to develop productive skills and we certainly exchanged lots of them! We have now all ...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Oct 3, 2009, 6:56 pm
I greatly enjoyed my first TeachMeet yesterday in Salford.Here is my contribution. More details about the Meet to follow... Audio In Mfl Teachmeet Nw Oct09View more presentations from Isabelle Jones.
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Sep 19, 2009, 3:14 am
In a previous post dating back to 2007, I was looking at what schools were doing to get prepared for the 2010 deadline for teaching foreign languages at Primary. Two years later, what has changed? Alt...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Sep 12, 2009, 6:17 pm
I had a very interesting experience this week. My laptop suddenly became unusable and I had 50 minutes to prepare a lesson with no projected visuals, no recorded sound and no video clips. What happene...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Sep 8, 2009, 5:59 pm
The MFL twittering teachers are striking back! This time, the virtual “Show and Tell” will take place on Monday 28 September 8.30-10.30pm GMT. Participants will need to sign up here, on Lynne Hor...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Aug 24, 2009, 6:52 am
What is it? The competition is organised by CILT, the National Centre for Languages as part of its work to promote languages in the UK. The LAFTAs aims to create a bank of video clips that can be used...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Aug 23, 2009, 5:55 pm
The European Day of Languages (EDL) aims to celebrate the rich and diverse culture that is represented by Languages worldwide and 26 September is the common European day first set by the Council of Eu...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Aug 19, 2009, 5:07 pm
On my quest to find ways to further embed Thinking Skills into the practice of all the teachers in our faculty, I came across the key conclusions of the review lead by Professor Carol McGuiness from t...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Aug 18, 2009, 5:12 pm
teacher Originally uploaded by AhavatHaEmetThere is currently a lot of debate about the amount of qualifications needed to be a good teacher-or should I say a “credible” one. Whether we are talkin...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Aug 17, 2009, 5:47 am
That was the title of a blog post by Soren Gordhamer on Mashable.com retweeed by @spanishsam. Research indicates that "40% of Tweets are Pointless Babble" So what are "Quality Tweets"? Accordig to th...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Aug 15, 2009, 4:44 pm
Guy Claxton is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at Bristol in the Graduate School of Education and the Institute of Advanced Studies. I first found out about his work nearly 2 years ago and I have found it...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Jul 30, 2009, 5:25 pm
I was delighted to be invited to guest blog by Ken Royal on his blog, The Educators’ Royal Treatment. I chose to blog about “Sharing to grow” as I have found that the concept is always a lot har...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Jul 23, 2009, 8:32 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawnecono/149172094 In April last year, I was blogging about the meaning of “Compelling Language Learning”, one of the pivotal concept of the new Programme of Study ...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Jul 22, 2009, 9:23 am
During the meeting, we had a discussion about different ideas or activities that had a particular impact in the classroom. The following people attended the meeting: Wendy adeniji, Sarah Brooks, John ...
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Isabelle J. posted an article on My Languages - Jul 21, 2009, 4:58 pm
This was my first meeting as a Regional Secondary Adviser for ALL (Association for Language Learning) and it proved a very useful information-packed first contact. The second session was lead by Aliso...
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