Autonomous personal learning networks for language teachers (aPLaNet) is a two year EU project funded by the Life Long Learning Programme designed to encourage language teachers who don't normally use social media in their professional life to see the value... ...
Download Dr_Lid_King_on_Lingu@net_Worldwide Earlier this month I had the pleasure of speaking to Dr Lid King Director of The Languages Company and National Director for Languages in England from 2003 to 2011 about the Lingu@net Worldwide project which launched in May... ...
I have been a fan of the audio experiments of John Johnston and David Noble since I first got into podcasting five years ago. They were inspirations to me then and they still are now. So when last week, David... ...
One of the highlights of my summer holiday this year was taking part in the 2011 LARC Social Media Workshop a week long programme of online presentations and hands-on workshops delivered through Elluminate on the use of ICT in language... ...
Download Interview_with_Gemma_Dobson Newly qualified teacher, Gemma Dobson from Tiverton High School in Devon describes herself in her Blogger and Twitter profile as "an enthusiastic NQT keen to try out fresh, new ideas to get pupils excited about languages". One such... ...
Download EDTECHCREW162 Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Tony and Darrel from the Ed Tech Crew about a range of issues including blogging, podcasting and time management! It was interesting to reflect on what has... ...
Download The_World_is_my_Classroom.mp3 Last month, during her workshop The World Is My Classroom at Ulearn 2010 in New Zealand, Allanah King asked me to talk to her delegates briefly about how I use Skype to communicate with colleagues in my personal... ...
Download Interview_with_Craig_Smith.mp3 For the last couple of weeks the MFL resources forum I subscribe to has been buzzing with enthusiasm about an online language learning competition which has seen pupils from Somerset to St Andrews answering over 14 million vocabulary... ...