This hands-on CPD course for teachers will explore how different cross-platform tools can promote collaboration, independent learning, creativity and assessment opportunities. Delegates will have plenty of hands-on time to explore the power and potential of different technologies such as iPads, Android devices and Windows tablets and laptops for enhancing learning in and out of the classroom. Focusing on pedagogical principles and improving outcomes, Joe Dale will demonstrate how easy it is to enhance learning in a purposeful way with a range of free apps or tools which are device agnostic allowing learners to practise, reflect and share the results easily.

The course will:

• show how technology can promote collaboration and allow learners the opportunity to work simultaneously on the same document
• demonstrate how a range of apps and web tools can encourage independent learning and autonomous research
• illustrate how technology can channel creativity and personalise learning
• raise awareness of how technology can facilitate formative assessment and shorten the feedback loop

Agenda

9.00 – 10.00 Session 1: Presentation - The purposeful use of technology in the languages classroom

10.00 – 11.30 Session 2: Collaboration

• Use TodaysMeet to crowdsource ideas on what delegates want to achieve in the workshop and show how a backchannel works.
• Use Seesaw to create and privately share multimedia content via QR codes including audio QR codes
• Use Padlet to show how learners can collaborate with each other and upload multimedia
• Use Google Docs to show how to share a document and comment.
• Use of TitanPad to show how to collaborate on a document without the need for registration and where each person is allocated a colour so it is easy to see who has written what..

11.30-11.45 Mid-morning break

11.45-13.15 Session 3: Creativity

Use Book Creator to produce and share personalised multimedia eBooks for iPads, Android and Windows 8/10 tablets or laptops which promote creativity, collaboration and facilitate feedback.

13.15 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Session 4. Assessment

• Use of Socrative for classroom voting
• Use of Kahoot for multiple choice quizzes
• Use of Google Forms and Flubaroo for self-marking tests

Plenary and close

Presenter Profile

Joe Dale is an independent languages consultant who is host of the TES MFL forum, Vital MFL Portal Manager for the Open University, former SSAT Languages Lead Practitioner, a regular conference speaker and a recognised expert on technology and language learning. He has featured in several Education Guardian articles and has himself both written for and been quoted by the TES. Joe has also written for the TES ICT blog and produced video tutorials for the CILT 14-19 website. Joe recently starred on a Teachers TV programme and has spoken about the Rose Review proposals on BBC Radio 4. His blog has been nominated for four Edublog Awards in the last four years(www.joedale.typepad.com)

Feedback from teachers on Joe's course

A fantastic, personalised approach. Thank you so much.
This was very helpful. Joe was very patient too.
Good content and delivery.

Cost: £145 per delegate which includes lunch and resources