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Otherwise known as a moblog, mobile blogging has two meanings -to update your blog on a mobile device and/or to update your blog on the move. In April 2013 I ran my first trip abroad with 40 students and 4 staff. … Continue reading →

Textivate is a website that allows teachers or students to make interactive games from chunks of text. Great for MFL controlled assessment practise where they can use examples of paragraphs to practise key phrases. Students can cut and paste paragraphs up to 500 words … Continue reading →

Hi all, I went on an Ofsted course Tue 20.11.12 which was run by Andrew Langdon. Aimed at Middle managers – Observing staff under the new September 2012 criteria Here are the Key points: Think about the impact rather than the teaching … Continue reading →

Quizlet.com is amazing! By far the best free website for practising and learning vocabulary that I’ve found so far. I am a big believer in the power of games to transform the way students learn and this is the best … Continue reading →

Aurasma – better than a QR code! I know I’m a bit of an ICT geek when I get excited about the potentials of augmented reality in the classroom!! I had seen this before last year when people first began … Continue reading →

Top 8 tips to making your own student website: One of my favourite and probably most useful resources I’ve made so far is my own student ‘website’. I know there’s the VLE and that has it has its place but … Continue reading →

Using Twitter as an MFL teacher Imagine a professional environment where the people you connect with want to share. They share the best of what they know already and new information they find out. Imagine you were to ask as … Continue reading →

Improving students presentations (& memory!) with a cue prompter Cueprompter.com is such a great idea, there are so many presenting possibilities! For now though my mind is on our current speaking controlled assessments. I thought it would be a fun way … Continue reading →

Homework via Jing This fantastic (and free) tool called Jing allows you to capture images from your screen which I have found so useful for making worksheets/powerpoints and especially for making images to upload to my student blog. If you regularly … Continue reading →