ALL London January Event
Speaking at the sold out ALL London January Event yesterday was a real privilege. It was brilliant to see a hundred and twenty MFL teachers willing to give up their Saturday morning to come to The London School of Economics and hear Rachel Hawkes and Leigh McClelland from Comberton Village College in Cambridgeshire speak about Music, song, rhythm and movement in language learning as well as my own talk Whizzo ICT Ideas.
Helen Myers, superb compere/photographer and ALL president elect captured the warm and relaxed atmosphere beautifully with her Photo Story of the event with Nick Mair, MFL HoD at Dulwich College shooting some lively footage from the front. Click below to see the results.
As normal I recorded the audio of my session which went without a hitch apart from a few mobile phones going off and the odd 'intentional mistake' which I think I may have got away with, fingers crossed. My presentation is here to download too which includes my email address. So you can get in touch if there is anything you get stuck with or you want to share your ideas. You can also peruse the comprehensive accompanying weblinks below and have hours of fun trying the ideas out for yourself. For those who couldn't attend, here is a sneak preview of my 'top ten this week'.
10 Whizzo ICT ideas
- Triggers in PowerPoint
- Drag and Drop in PowerPoint
- Making photo-stories in PowerPoint and in Photo Story 3
- Writing frames in Word
- Format Painter in Word
- Teacher's Pet
- Blogging
- Podcasting
- Desktop Messager
- On Screen Keyboard
What are yours? Please share!
Downloads
Download drag_and_drop_tutorial.wmv
Download les aventures_de_monsieur_oiseau_et_monsieur_canard
Download stickmen_tutorial.wmv
Download How_to_make_a writing_frame_with_a_drop_down_menu_in_Word
Download writing_frame_example.doc
Download posting_to_a_Typepad_blog.wmv
Show Notes
PowerPoint session at SSAT Annual Conference
Drag and Drop presentation created by Hans Werner Hofmann and Ute Simon
Using Photo Story 3 to bring photos to life in the classroom
Learning slideshows for mobile phones and iPods
Bruno Guillemin MFL resources for KS2 - 4
Northamptonshire MFL conference DVD - Contact Guy Shearer for more details
Creating a Photo Album in PowerPoint
Primary ICT SOS - Using Photo Story in PSHE
Example lesson for Teacher's Pet
The easy way to create language exercises
Setting Your Weblog Comment and TrackBack Preferences
Using the freebie software Desktop Messager
How to use on-screen keyboards with interactive whiteboards
Computer tips mentioned in the session
1. To annotate over a PowerPoint slide, click CTRL+P to change the cursor into a pen pointer. To remove any annotations, click the E key and CTRL + A to change the cursor back to the standard cursor
2. To group two objects in PowerPoint, select them both. Right click the selected image and select Grouping and then Group. To ungroup, right click, then select Grouping and Ungroup. The keyboard shortcuts are CTRL + Shift + G to Group and CTRL + Shift + H to Ungroup.
3. To order objects in PowerPoint, so one appears on top of another right click the one you want to be uppermost and click Order and then Bring to Front. To place an object below another, right click it, select Order and click Send to Back.
4. To save your PowerPoint slides as individual images, click on the File menu and then Save As .. In the dialogue box which then appears click on the dropdown menu next to Save as type and click JPEG File Interchange Format. In the next message click Every Slide.
5. To go to a slide in PowerPoint in slideshow mode, click the number of the slide on your keyboard and press Enter.
6. To change the size of your text in Word, PowerPoint etc, hold down the Ctrl key and then next to the Enter key, hold down either the squiggly bracket on the right to make it bigger or on the left to make it smaller.
7. To make a webpage go full screen, press the F11 key in Internet Explorer and then right click the bar at the top and click Auto-Hide. Reverse these instructions to go back to previous state.
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I think that your ALL session on Saturday in London just might have turned on my department to the full beauty of using ICT in MFL - and NOT for just run-of-the-mill stuff! This is no mean feat! Go, you! :)
Posted by: misssimmonds | 29/01/2007 at 18:37
Cheers Leanne,
That's great news.
Keep me posted.
Joe
Posted by: Joe Dale | 29/01/2007 at 19:50
Thanks yet again Joe for a great session and this excellent 'customer support' service! See you again soon!
Helen
Posted by: Helen Myers | 29/01/2007 at 22:11
Dear Joe
I am writing to you on behalf of the new Oxfordshire ALL network. We have had our launch earlier in January and currently looking forward to the OUP event before the Language World conference. We would like to put on another meeting before the end of this academic year and were wondering whether you would be happy to inspire us here in Oxford with your ICT and language skills...
Thanks and i hope to see you in Oxford
Rene
Posted by: Rene Koglbauer | 20/03/2007 at 00:27
Hi Rene,
Thanks for your comment. I'd be delighted to come and run a session for ALL Oxford in June or July although it would have to be a Saturday. Hope we can sort something out and I look forward to meeting you at Language World.
It may be better to carry on this conversation by email.
Best wishes
Joe
Posted by: Joe Dale | 20/03/2007 at 10:11
Hello Rachel, I comes from Germany I was before half jahr we were with the choir of Ulli Meis with you in Cambridge. I hope you get this mail then I would take up with pleasure contact with you there I some ask would have. Please, announces you (e-mail: SKruschel@gmx.de) In dear sandra
Posted by: Sandra | 02/11/2007 at 14:20