My Favourite Moments From Last Term
Here are some things that are highlights for me from last term:
I love these videos because it shows students having a go on their own, and I’m always really proud to see that. In the first one, Jesse and Eddie are happily listening to a Chinese lesson on the iPod and they are practicing it together. They are using the hand signs that I teach them in class to help them remember the words. I haven’t told them they have to use the hand signs, so they are choosing to use them. Fantastic!
In this second video, you will see a short play that some Grade 6 students made. All I did was give them my little Flip Video and tell them to show me what they know about greetings in Chinese. I was so very impressed with the results! (And so were a group of teachers in Melbourne who I showed this video to). It’s amazing how creative kids can be when you give them something they’re engaged in and let them make up the rest themselves!
I really love the energy of the kids in this video. This group of Grade 2s are so excited to be using the little Flip Video that they are even jumping up and down about it - well, Jakob is! this video is especially great because there are a couple of fairly reluctant learners in this small group and you can see that all of them are totally into it - I love the big grin of the Jesse in the last bit of the video as he is looking over Josh’s shoulder at the Flip.
I am really happy with these next ones because they are of an activity that worked really well in class, for me and for many students. These videos are of the audio wordfind and translation activity that we have done on the SMART Board a few times.
There are lots of other great moments from class that I’ve got on video but I can’t put them all here right now. I have favourite moments in class all the time! I’d love to hear about a few of yours.
Feeding on Podcasts
This is a cross post with technoLOTE
Hello there! It’s been a while, I know. General term craziness has kept me away from my blog for a few weeks, but hopefully some of the insanity has subsided and there is a little more time for me to get in touch with technoLOTE and my other blogs again!
I’m on holidays in Perth at the moment as my husband is here working (and so his boss flew me over which was lovely of him) and I’m staying in an apartment near Kings Park which has been great. So, I’ve been sleeping in, reading and most recently, catching up on some podcasting.
Last year I did two episodes of the technoLOTE podcast and then never got around to doing anymore - until now. There are now 6 episodes for you to enjoy! They are:
Episode 1: Classroom Collaboration the Ning Way
Episode 2: Making Teaching More Human with Podcasting (Interview with Andrew Douch)
Episode 3: Teaching technoLOTE (Interview with Joe Dale)
Episode 4: Why Learn Another Language (Interview with my Year 9s and 11s!)
Episode 5: Walking The Walk (the ePlanks project and visit to Coburg Senior High School) and
Episode 6: On The Topic of Blogging (conversation in the car with Anne and Faye about blogging)
Please note that if you were already subscribed to this podcast THE FEED HAS CHANGED. It can now be found here.
You can hear any of the episodes by clicking on the links above, or by going straight to the podcast page at Podomatic. You can also find it in iTunes if you search for ‘technoLOTE’ or ‘ Jess McCulloch.’ Have a listen to a few episodes and let me know what you think.
