“ “Creative adaptation” is also a crucial aspect of teaching.The ability to mediate policy through a clear understanding of learning is what often sets good teachers apart form those others who consistently resist or passively adopt new initiatives.” Debbie Myhill, University of Exeter, Jan 2008 1
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Free Your Mind And Your Class Will Follow : Using Blogs And Podcasts In The MFL Classroom
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“ “Creative adaptation” is also a crucial aspect of teaching. The ability to mediate policy through a clear understanding of
learning is what often sets good teachers apart form those others who consistently resist or passively adopt new
initiatives.”
Debbie Myhill, University of Exeter, Jan 2008
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Blogs and Podcasts Free your mind and your class will follow
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WA(n)LT
• what are blogs and podcasts
• not how to blog and how to podcast
• reasons to use blogs and make podcasts
• some resources available to help you blog and podcast
• some examples
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WI(n)LF
• your curiosity to be piqued
• go away and look into some of the ideas
• try...and possibly fail
• thinking that blogs and podcasts are some kind of panacea
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“The new KS3 Curriculum is an invitation to be bold”
Kathy Wicksteed, Language World 2008
“If you are not prepared to be wrong you will never produce anything original.”
Sir Ken Robinson
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BlogsLiteracy outcomes for Scottish A Curriculum
for Excellence:Definition of “texts”
novels, short stories, plays, poems, reference texts, the spoken word, charts, maps, graphs and
timetables, advertisements, promotional leaflets, comics, newspapers and magazines, CVs, letters
and , films, games and TV programmes, labels, signs and posters, recipes, manuals and
instructions, reports and reviews, , and , ,
catalogues and directories
email
text messagesblogs social networking sites web sites