Organisers of The Language Show 2006 have announced the session programme for this year's event. Based in Olympia, London, the three day exhibition runs from 3-5 November 2006. All sessions are free, but delegates are advised to book to guarantee a place. Full details of the sessions can be found in the Teacher's Zone on the official Language Show website.
The ICT-related talks this year include:
- Friday 11.45 - 12.30
Blogs, podcasts, wikis, photosharing…engage your students in MFL. Following the huge popularity of his talk last year, Ewan McIntosh, New Technologies Research Practitioner Learning and Teaching Scotland is back with the most up-to-date and exciting tools to engage MFL students: he will demonstrate how to make best use of blogs, podcasts, wikis, photosharing, Google Earth, online book marking and massive multi-user online games to further learning and development and to run international or classroom-based collaborative projects. - Friday 18.00 - 18.45
A quick start guide for French teachers with www.TV5.org . Supporting the French TV channel the TV5MONDE website is vast, and the teachers section www.tv5.org/enseignants, packed full of free online resources. This seminar aims to give a quick-start guide on how to best use TV5 in the classroom, a review of programmes on TV5MONDE and a tour of the website. - Saturday 10.30 - 11.15
Death by PowerPoint? Keep your finger on the trigger. Joe Dale, French coordinator at Nodehill Middle School on the Isle of Wight and one of the most popular speakers from last year will show how MS PowerPoint can greatly improve MFL teaching in the classroom. Triggers, Custom Animations, Action Buttons, colour coding and keyboard shortcuts will be demonstrated as part of a variety of practical examples for presenting vocabulary and playing games. - Saturday 15.30 - 16.15
Teaching French with ‘real’, authentic resources . TV adverts, films, songs, comic strips and even poetry are just some of the cultural and ‘real’ resources that make languages relevant to learners. Stephane Derone from Linguascope will give this stimulating session looking at simple, accessible ways of approaching and exploiting these authentic resources with focus on French - even with beginners. - Sunday 13.00 - 13.45
A walk through ICTLAND. Helen Myers , MFL teacher at The Ashcombe School, Dorking and SSAT Lead Practitioner gives an independent overview of time-saving language software products for every-day teaching currently available on the mark et, many of which will be in the exhibition. Ideas for all whether you already have ICT skills or are a beginner. Relevant for the teaching of any age group, but examples will be provided from the primary and secondary fields. For details of the school's free workshops visit www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk - Sunday 14.15 - 15.00
Primary MFL with the aid of Interactive Whiteboards. Suzanne Taylor (From all Around the World/Edpax) will demonstrate how Interactive Whiteboards can be used to facilitate primary students’ learning. Practical and exciting examples of how to deliver French, German and Spanish will be offered.
To get a flavour of The Language Show 2006, have a look at the 2005 Show Movie. You will need Windows Media Player 9 or above to watch the clip.
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