Looking at things differently- building a department based on student opinions and desires and giving them the tools to take charge of their own learning and progression.

1. www.dragonfly-training.co.uk
Doing things differently
- building engagement with languages
For more ideas
www.chrisfuller.typepad.com
To chat things over
@chrisfullerisms
To discuss and ask questions
Chrisfullerinspain@hotmail.com

2. Building
engagement
Purpose
for
learning
Knowing
how to
develop
Tools to
self-
express
Engaging
content to
drive
learning

3. Marking for understanding

4. 1) Primero en el alfabeto
2) Segundo en el alfabeto
3) Tercero en el alfabeto
4) Cuarto en el alfabeto
20 minutos
Marking for understanding

5. Marking for understanding

6. Marking for understanding

7. What do students
want to say?!

8. What do students
want to say?!

9. Mistakes are healthy

10. Collaboration for learning

11. Collaboration for learning

12. Tools to build
self-expression

13. Tools to build
self-expression

14. Who is this and why is he
so important for your
grammar sessions?

15. Tools to build
self-expression

16. Google Forms tracking

17. Organise peer teaching
sessions?
Publish students’
teaching resources?
www.route39mfl.wikispaces.com

18. PE in Spanish
Link with Madrid

19. Project celebration
evenings
Celebrate it!

20. Make a product of it
Celebrate it!

21. Getting everywhere...

22. Getting everywhere...

23. Projects to
excite!

24. Cinema speed chatting

26. What did you do in your bedroom last
night?!

27. http://bit.ly/Shelterboxchallenge

28. Run with
Kelda Richards,
@elkel99

29. Your project brief
Exeter City FC is interested in signing a 26 year old
French striker on a free transfer.
Leyton Orient and York are also both interested.
He left Ligue 3 club Strasbourg at the end of last
season after 4 years, scoring 56 goals in 148 games.
He is married with 3 children (aged 7, 5 and 2)

30. Your 2challenges today
Challenge 1
• Create a multimedia video in FRENCH to attract
the striker to Exeter City- no longer than 2 minutes.
• This video will be uploaded to a blog
www.europeandayoflanguages2013.wordpress.com
• The video with the most views by 12 midday,
Wednesday 2nd October will win.

31. Your 2challenges today
Challenge 2
• Create a separate, different presentation in
FRENCH to lure the player in person- no more than
3 minutes.
• You will be presenting this in front of the other
teams at 1.00 THIS AFTERNOON.
• This must be business-like. You will be cut off at 3
minutes and all team members must speak.

32. Going forwards
When you leave today it will be YOUR responsibility to
develop to drive traffic to your video.
Ideas...
• Posters around school
• School website?
• QR codes?
• Speak to family / friends / neighbours
We are looking to run this across various venues
next year- anyone interested?

34. Technology
- Engaging with the world

35. www.dragonfly-training.co.uk
www.route39.typepad.com

36. www.route39.typepad.com/spanish

37. www.dragonfly-training.co.uk
www.ridgewaylanguages.typepad.com

38. www.roydslanguagesdepartment.typepad.com
Creating an audience for
work

39. www.dragonfly-training.co.uk
eTwinning

40. eTwinning

41. www.dragonfly-training.co.uk
Departmental Twitter accounts
@longsladeMFL
Possible uses
• Share links
• Reminders
• Highlight great work
• New blog posts
• Building audience

42. Podcasting
By students
For students
• Provides audience for speaking tasks
• Immediate (grammar) revision tool
• Editing process = repeated exposure
• Easy to access anytime, anywhere
• Immediate (grammar) revision tool
• Easy to access anytime, anywhere

43. Audacity for editing

44. Create your own iTunes account

45. QR code displays
http://bit.ly/QRcodedisplay

46. http://tweepml.org/MFL-Twitterers
Twitter
- your personal support network

47. Still worried they’re staring
out the window?

48. www.dragonfly-training.co.uk
Doing things differently
- building engagement with languages
For more ideas
www.chrisfuller.typepad.com
To chat things over
@chrisfullerisms
To discuss and ask questions
Chrisfullerinspain@hotmail.com