My focus this week is…..

….EasiSpeak microphones. Tomorrow and Wednesday I plan to finish off a unit of work with my Year 8 class. They are mixed ability, and it is only their first year of Spanish, so the activity plans to show off the skills that they have learnt so far which include basic personal descriptions including personality, age, [...]

Half Term Top Five

This half term I have been able to get a lot done – not only have I been abroad (to Bilbao – a place very dear to me as I lived there for two years), but I have also had the chance to catch up on lots of paperwork and get to grips with a [...]

Did you know?

Many thanks to Chris Betcher for posting this video on his blog where he says “ I wonder if Karl Fisch knew what he was starting when he made the original “Did You Know?” PowerPoint file for his staff at Arapahoe High School back in early 2007.  Fisch just wanted to share a few thoughts [...]

LanguagesResources Wiki

Today I happened to log on to Twitter at around midday and came across a message from @kvnmcl: This, along with a previous tweet from @bellale regarding the use of web 2.0 tools in the MFL classroom, has prompted me to write up a copy of an overview of the Spanish course that I will be [...]

Twitter

I first joined Twitter back in February 2008, but for such a long time it seemed slightly pointless, and ever so slightly overwhelming. A few weeks ago I decided to take the plunge again after having seen a little bit more about it in the press and in the forums that I regularly read. I [...]

Bookmarking with Del.ic.ious

   A few weeks ago I got very annoyed at having a great selection of bookmarks in my favourites list on my home computer, and then another wonderful favourites list on my school computer, so I sat down and compiled a list of all the websites that I find useful using Del.ic.ious (www.delicious.com/spanishsam) . I [...]

A new blog, a new beginning

So, this is my first post on this brand spanking new blog. First, let me introduce myself. My name is Samantha Lunn, and I am Head of Spanish at a school in the north west of England. I am the webmistress of www.languagesresources.co.ukand I have been known in the virtual world of the TES, previously [...]

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