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My name is Jess McCulloch. I live with my husband in the beautiful seaside town of Warrnambool on the south west coast of Victoria, Australia.
I graduated with a Grad Dip Ed (Secondary) from Monash University in 2005. I now teach LOTE Chinese at Hawkesdale P12 College, which is about 45kms north of Warrnambool. 2008 is my third year at Hawkesdale and I teach all year levels from Prep to 11 (5 to 17 year olds). It’s busy and challening but I love it!
My particular interest at the moment is ICT, Web 2.0 and using these tools to improve my teaching, which is why I created technoLOTE. For those of you not part of the Australian Education system and may not have come across this acronym before, LOTE stands for Language Other Than English and is the study of modern foreign languages in Australian schools.
The idea behind this blog site is to give anyone who is interested a window into what I am doing in my classroom in the way of integrating ICT. I am far from what you would call an expert but I love trying new things in my classroom, and I’ll make notes about what I’ve tried and tested to post here. I’m hoping that by sharing my experiences of ICT (particularly Web 2.0 applications like blogging and podcasting) you will find something useful to take back to your classroom.
I’d also love hear about what other language teachers are doing with technology in their classrooms. Please drop me a line and let me know what your lesson ideas are. Share lesson plans, resources and inspirations. I would love to interview lots of people for the technoLOTE podcast about how they keep their students engaged in language learning.
How to get the most out of technoLOTE
technoLOTE is a blog, which means that the front page will always display the most recent thing I have written. Almost every time you visit there will be something new to read. Rather than checking back all the time to see if there is something new that interests you, you can get these new articles (or posts) delivered right to you. Just click here to read instructions on how to subscribe and get email notifications or in a reader.
Each article/post that I write for technoLOTE is sorted into different topics. These topics are listed in the left hand side of the site. You will notice a number next to each topic heading. This indicates how many articles/posts there are that relate to that topic. Click in the topic click to see those posts.
Spend some time familiarising yourself with the site and what it can offer you. I’d love to hear any feedback you have and would very much welcome new links and resources that I can add - credit given where it’s due of course!
Thank you for visiting. Come again soon!
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