Sunday Video Session

I’ve been bookmarking lots of videos over these past couple of days and rather than post them all at once, I thought I’d create a Sunday Video Session post where I’ll share my one or two favourite videos of the week. Most of them will have to do with language learning and technology, but I [...]

Remembering the Learning with LOTE and ICT

I was alerted to these videos recently and decided to post them here.

LOTE in Primary School

John Travers used to be a Primary School principal and he shares how the LOTE program at his school was one of his biggest frustrations because he thought it was failing. He makes the often reiterated point that LOTE programs [...]

Languages Education Articles In The Age

Last week there were quite a few articles in The Age about languages and languages education. It’s excellent that the issue of proper languages education is being brought to the fore.

Here are the links:

Language skills push for schools

THE Federal Government is moving to significantly increase the number of students graduating with foreign [...]

Wiki Support for International Year of Languages 2008

While I’m publicly thanking some of the commenters I have not contacted personally lately, I have found that some of the comments left evolve themselves very nicely into blog posts of their own. This post is based on one such comment.

Don from donosborn.org has started a wiki for gathering strategies and methods for supporting [...]

They’ve got ‘em, let’s use ‘em

One of the first things I did with my Gr 6, Year 7, 8, 9/10 and 11 classes was give them an ICT survey so I’ve got a good understanding of what tools they have at home. The ironic thing - I gave it to them on paper. Arg! The reason for that in the [...]

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