ICT Sessions on MFL and the Internet
First ICT Session on MFL and the Internet: Applying New Technologies Appropriately to Modern Foreign Languages
Harton School Departments of Equal Opportunities and Modern Foreign Languages
Web Skills
Text & Graphics
Files
Case Studies
Heidi — a Native Speaker of a National Curriculum Modern Foreign Language
John — a Foreign Language Learner with Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia)
Kevin — a Foreign Language Learner with Moderate Learning Difficulties
Rachel — a Foreign Language Learner with Hearing Impairment
Problem Solving
Problems & Solutions
Websites
Second ICT Session on MFL and the Internet:
Consolidating Basic Web Concepts and Skills
30 April 1999 - 9.15-12.15
What the Internet is and why it matters
How to "get online": Modems, Email software, Browsers
How to access web pages: Favourites (Bookmarks), Links, Back Button
What a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is
How to capture (copy) text
How to capture (copy) pictures
How to paste text and pictures into a word processing file
How to use a search engine: Alta Vista and Yahoo
How to download files and programs
A virtual tour of the European Union
The WELL Project Treasure Hunt
Solving appropriate and authentic problems
School Internet usage isn't about channel-hopping, it's about problem-solving
Problem-solving is about using students' thinking skills as well as language skills
The problems are real, not imaginary (unless you're appealing to the imagination!)
Search Alta Vista with "Parc Astérix" as keyword in quotes
Parc Astérix on the WWW: The Site
Parc Astérix on the WWW: An accompanying exercise
Where do we go from here?
We have now had two 3-hour sessions on MFL and the WWW, a sizeable investment!
Can the WWW contribute to our existing MFL teaching at Harton, and if so...
How do we integrate the WWW into our scheme of work?
How do we divide the labour of searching the WWW and devising tasks/projects?
Do we need a staff/student handbook on MFL Web-surfing? Who will write it?
How are we all going to share "ownership" of the WWW and hence use it?
How are we going to engage our students in using the WWW? Singly? Groups?
Which students would benefit and how, in terms of general and subject knowledge?
How are these students going to master the necessary basics of web-searching? (Ours is the pilot department!)
How do we make a departmental website within the school's Intranet?
So what have we decided? Done by whom? By when?