My new course Engaging and Motivating Pupils in MFL through Lively, Stimulating and Challenging Integration of ICT for Keynote Educational took place today in the luxuriant surroundings of the Copthorne Tara Hotel, High Street Kensington.
We got off to a lively start and had a look at how to put together a PowerPoint presentation for teaching vocabulary using hyperlinks, action buttons, specific animations and colour to reinforce gender. Then it was the Teacher's Pet toolbar for MS Word in the second session as well as how to make a writing frame with dropdown menus and help prompts. After the amazing lunch, we had a look at Spellmaster, Toolkit for Teachers and le jeu du pendu as good examples of useful freeware for language learning. Finally, I gave a quick demonstration of how to put together a basic podcast using Audacity, a Logitech USB microphone and FlashKit loops.
The delegates were great and the staff very helpful. All in all a lovely day. The course wil be on again on 22nd March in the same venue. Click here for more information.
Very interesting topics. I wish I could have been there.
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Posted by: José Luis Cabello | 23/11/2006 at 09:16