I’d been dreading today for a while! 24 Primary School teachers were coming along to hear me give them advice on how to make the most of their SMARTboards in the classroom when teaching foreign languages to upper primary stage pupils. The reason for my ‘dread’ was twofold:
- I’ve never had the luxury of an interactive whiteboard in my own classroom practice
- I’ve never taught a foreign language – and my own ability to use another language is very limited
Maybe it was because of these reasons that I felt duty bound to come up with resources that I thought might be very useful to the teachers attending the course. By the time tonight came around, I was actually quite hopeful! I’d found a number of resources that could be used in a variety of curricular areas - and most of those that were specific to mfl teaching were flexible enough to be used in teaching any of the 3 languages taught in our Primary schools here.
Here’s the ppt notes they took away with them:
When teachers come to courses, they are asked to fill in quite detailed evaluation forms – I’m not sure I agree with this idea, but I’ve yet to have a very negative response 
Happily, tonight everyone was ‘very satisfied’ with the course … maybe they were just a friendly ‘easy to please’ bunch? I also shared my ‘working wikispace’ with them, so that they could easily access the long url addresses to some of the links!
Unfortunately a direct message on my twitter account from Joe Dale arrived too late to be included in the course. You can hear the podcast (hot off the press today!) below. I’m sure I’ll be repeating the course, so I’ll be able to include it then.
Finally!! ….I hope that the ppt presentation used for my handout notes will be a useful reference for the attendees, but I’d really like to learn better ways of presenting courses. I enjoyed reading Ollie Bray’s post today on that subject and the video he included was great. More to perfect
How to Create a Great PowerPoint – Take 2.0 from Alvin Trusty on Vimeo.
….. and now there’s http://prezi.com/
I think I’m going to be busy
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