One Stop Shop for ALL NE Spanish Teachers – everyone welcome!

Venue: Gosforth Academy, Regent Centre metro

Date: Thursday, July 14^th 2011

Sessions:

Neil Jones: “Say it with feeling!” – raising attainment and cultural understanding in MFL.”

John Connor: “Digital Encounters” – looking at the use of Web 2.0 tools to promote/develop speaking and writing.

Rachel Hawkes:  “Creativity Talks”: lots of practical ideas to encourage more target language talk (planned and spontaneous) in KS3 and KS4 Spanish classes.

Joaquín Moreno: “Poesia para la clase de español” –  illustrating how we can make use of poetry to improve students’ intonation and pronunciation, but also to encourage reflexion and understanding of emotions in KS% classes.

Lisa Stevens: “Sorpresas y sonrisas” – tips and ideas on how to keep everyone engaged and enthused in the primary language classroom.

Shirley Kliment-Temple: “Spanish through the Media”  – a show and tell session on motivational  projects from KS2-KS4 using Green screen film making , Print Journalism, News days,  Pod casting, animation using a visualiser and Radio broadcasting.

Please contact Claire Dodd to pre-book your place! Claire.Dodd@gosforthhigh.newcastle.sch.uk

Exceptional value @ just £50 for members of ALL

Non-members can join on the day or in advance

£20 for student teacher / NQT members

including refreshments and lunch

Gosforth Academy is easy to find opposite Asda and is just a few hundred yards from the Regent Centre Metro station.

A lovely song by Mecano accompanied by some lovely footage and pictures of the Puerta del Sol.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rzqhCyE2Lw

I know I normally stick to Spanish with the odd diversion into Catalan, French or German. However, this Christmas is very different as my family and I are spending it in Iceland.

So, in the spirit of our adopted country at this time of year,

Gleðileg jól

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74tzIAH1eo8

Want to find out more about Icelandic Christmas traditions?

Jólasveinarnir (Yule Lads) click on the links below the article to find out about each one of the lads who have been kindly delivering presents to my boys.

Find out more here about other traditions such as the Yule cat and Grylla.

Þorláksmessa – find out more about the tradition carried out on 23rd December.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3UHKu7ykR0

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZiHtnljJFE

Here’s a story about Father Christmas and his plans to move Christmas to July to make it easier to deliver presents on time that have rather unexpected consequences!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHWw4nQgyfk

A great way for animating text!

Have a look at my message and try making your own!

made on Wondersay - Animate text with style

Just (re)discovered ZooBurst thanks to Carolyn Jones and her message on the Yahoo MFL resources group giving the LinkBunchURL from TeachMeet Sheffield. It’s something about which I’ve heard before.  And I’ll be investigating further.

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

ZooBurst allows you to write your own stories and animate them as pop up books.  As the pages turn, the characters pop up, and can be made to speak.

As with Storybird, you can search an online gallery of other people’s stories.

Having had a little look, I came across these stories Celebrando el Bicentenario en Chile.

Today I’m at a cluster training day entitled Practical strategies for thinking learning and motivation.

It’s being led by Ian Gilbert of Independent Thinking who, so far, has given us all lots to digest!

More detail later as I start to digest what we’re discovering, but so far I have learnt that-

I shouldn’t have a job
AQA stands for ask any question
Picasso said ‘every act of creation starts with an act of destruction.’
‘It’s better to seek forgiveness than ask permission.’

Photo – Davide Restivo on Flickr

Now looking at paper.li – making a daily ‘newspaper’ of Tweets!  This can be done for a user, # or @.  I’ve just made one – let’s see what happens!

http://linkedin.com – how do we use it?  Completely professionally is the general answer!

http://www.twingly.com – a way of creating ‘channels’ of websites based on RSS feeds