| http://www.cilt.org.uk
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| This
website is aimed at anyone involved in teaching languages. CILT is
the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research. This
website is well worth a visit, offering a variety of resrouces including
lists of recommended resources for teaching French, German and Italian
to primary school pupils. It also provides links to research documents
on language learning, some links did not work! There are also useful
lists of cd-roms available. This is simply information based however,
no comments or opinions on the particular usefulness of each cd-rom
is given. There is also accessto downlaodable information sheets.
Rating: 8/10 |
| http://www.vtc.ngfl.gov.uk
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| This
site is very well designed, with clear links and a valuable resource
to ICT teachers. I did find it a bit dry though! There are lots of
information sheets to download. It may be aimed more to secondary
school teachers. It's quite technical in its detail. Things like "20
Ideas that Work" are excellent lesson ideas for ICT. As a link
off this I found the website "Premiers pas sur Interent".
This is an excellent website for both teachers of French and their
pupils. It can be found at http://www.momes.net.
Rating: 9/10 |
| http://tomwilson.com/david/case
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| This
website is aimed at Language teachers though some parts are directed
at pupils. The essence of the site is the application of new technologies
to the teaching of MFL. It is a very clear and well laid out with
no major use of exciting graphics to slow things down. It does not
take long to get through the content as the site is quite small. It
offers some nice step by step lessons for performing tasks such
as copying text and photos from the web. There is a nice link to a
French family's homepage. Rating : 7/10 |
| http://www.eso.educ.uva.nl/bild
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| This
is the European Schools Project (ESP) web-site. It consists of a databas
of projects carried ut and currently in train in a variety of countries
including Japan, Sweden, Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain, Denmark,
Netherlands, Slocakia, Finalnd, Slovenia and Italy. There is lots
of interesting advice given eg. you can see a list of themes being
covered such as food, animals, Vickings, Granny's Kitchen, fairytales,
holidays ahoy, playing happy families. The database can be searched
by project title, school and person. There is a from for applying
for a project and useful tips on how to fill it out. The web-site
is all in English and contains links to all afore-mentioned countries
for access to a more comprehenisve list. Like the http://www.bild-online.dk
web-site, it explains the outline of an excellent framework under
which to conduct and e-mail partnership, called "An Image of
the Other". Both schools organise e-mails based on 10 topics.
Different opinions are given and need to be worked out between schools.
Clear advice for all concerned is given. At the end the children should
be able to write back with a final image of their partner based all
the information they received. Rating 10/10 |
| http://www.bild-online.dk/index
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| This
colourful attractive and user-friendly web-site is written all in
German, although there are links to English language sites. It's for
teacher to ehlp introduce shcool e-mail projects using German. The
aim is to bring classess together to work on German as a foreign language
(DaF). It includes examples of childrne's and teahers' comments, reactions,
some letters sent, tips on managing a sproject, mailing lists to apply
for a partner school, application form to receive mater for project
work such as worksheets for children and teaches based on "An
Image of the Other". Rating :9/10 |
| http://www.ourworld.compuserve.com
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| This
web-site is easy to read although it leans toward american slang.
It contains ideas for designing and producing a web-ste, including
reasons why we should publish one, publishing rules, publishing wizards
to download and a link to a basic HTML primer. There is very useful
material informatively and interestingly presented, but by no means
exhaustive. It could be accessed by student (webmasters) as well as
being useful for teachers. Rating 4/10 |
| http://www.dlc.fi/~pohalone/kompassZ
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| This
is a web-site by an individual teacher of German and English who is
also an author of German lesson books for children. It is written
in English although may not be of use to teachers who are not teaching
German. There is information on Germany and a Comenius Project and
also information on European festivals and traditions which may be
of interest. Rating 4/10 |
| http://www.stir.ac.uk/scilt
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| Maintained
by the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research,
this site contains useful links to other language sities such as Human
Languages Pages, BECTA, Lingu@NET ,
where a variety of resources relevant to German, Italian, Spanish
and French language teaching can be accessed. It list available publications
and their prices such as Foreign Languages in Primary Schools Evaluation
Report, Modern Languages in Primary Schools, Piloting Assessment of
Achievement Programme ((AAC) in Modern Languages etc. Courses are
detailed also, such as one abroad for the teaching of German in primary
schools. E-mail and contact forms are included in the site. For teachers
it could be a useful site for further informationand resources. Rating
5/10 |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages |
| This
attractive excellent site is colourful, looks modern, have very clear
and accessable links and certainly invites one to stay. It offers
activities in French, German, Italian and French. I investigated the
French activities. There is a very basic starting level, excellent
for primary school children, which has activities on ten topics of
conversation. The activities are presented in a choice of Audio, Video
or Transcript. An attractive and challenging feature is a game where
a student proceeds by answering questions presented in a multiple
choice format and is then congratulated at the end for having conducted
a successful conversation. Well worth a visit. Rating 10/10 |
| http://www.linguanet.org.uk
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| Lingu@net
- Becta - Virtual Language Centre. An advisory and resource for foreign
language teaching and the relevant backup resources. Excellent content
on a two tier menu - the content is very wide and touches language
teaching on all levels. If anything the site is two wide but careful
navigation gets the researcher to the exact topic needed. The site
is backed by Cilt (Centre for Information on Language Teaching) and
the resources offered are of the highest authority.Navigation is complex
but the extent of the topic demands this in order to cover all the
various facets and resource areas. Buttons and hotspots are clearly
marked and easily understood so that the destination is reached easily
and quickly. Menu lists are not cluttered.The advice and material
offered are exactly as required in the specialist areas. This site
is a comprehensive treatment of the topic with resources available
for the different age levels and activity area. In some ways the site
is too attractive in that it has so much on offer and one can become
easily distracted. Linguanet offers resources in software,an interactive
website, radio and tv broadcasts and literary publications. This is
assembled in a very long list which would print easily and include
all. There is a list for each language at the the three school grades
and an adult level. Excellent treatment of the topics. The case studies
make this much more than a resource site. The experience offered from
other schools show the problems, pitfalls and challenges. Site is
easily available and comes through quickly with a very clear menu
and no distracting animations. I found this site easy to manipulate
once the two tier menu system was understood. This is an exhaustive
site and covers all that any professional would need to know about
resources in language teaching. With this site alone a teacher's needs
would be comprehensively catered for. Rating 10/10 |
| http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/resource/linguanet
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| CITS
- Curriculum Information Technology Support.This site contains five
main areas ; Background in IT and Languages,Teacher Entitlement,Pupil
Entitlement, Case Studies, Training Activities, information Sheets.
Five clear cut areas as outlined above covering comprehensively teacher
and pupil needs, practical displays of activities, evaluations, training
needs, IT experience needs. A good readable attractive guide to IT.
Acknowledgements refer to a wide group of participants and consultants
which gives a site strong validity. Navigation is simple and in each
of the five areas there is a secondary menu which further develops
teacher/pupils skills making the introduction to IT more attractive
to the beginner. Access to the site was difficult to find through
Becta. Otherwise navigation was clear, the buttons very relevant and
the clearly and attractively presented. It gives insighful background
in the teacher and pupil areas and the activities presented make are
non-threatening. They eliminate the mystique around IT. For the teacher
who wants to develop IT further the secondary blue menu brings one
into areas such as website development, project development. Access
was difficult. The access line was through Becta, then CITS and finally
to MFL. MFL on its own is difficult to find because of similarity
to football leagues. A practical busy teacher's aid is the availability
of a download button on each practical case study and activity page.
The Information sheets give a wealth of ideas and practical classroom
activities and examples which could be utilised as a handbook of effective
workable options. An exccellent site which I found complemented the
resources available in Linguanet. Rating 9/10 |
| http://www.becta.org.uk/technology
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| This
is the Becta Educational Software Database. Its a very extensive database
on all topics relevant to education and language teaching. I put in
a seach for "primary French" in the Languages link and this
search produced nineteen results. It also allowed for a search of
cd-roms which produced seventeen cd titles. There was access from
the result to a review of the software and details of cost etc. I
found this a fast and efficient way to access titles and documents.
Rating : 9/10 |
| http://ericir.syr.edu
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| This
site will be familiar to teachers. It has excellent links on all things
educational and would be of great general interest to teachers. It
has a good Question & Answer service and a hugely extensive database,
maybe too extensive in the bewildering number of results produced
in a search. It was very informative but not specific enough to the
aims and objectives of SIP21. Rating 7/10 |