Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School Oldham@icpjones

http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

Favourite tools for CPD in the MFL Faculty

From Bulletin to Twitter

• Why a bulletin?• What do you put in it?• How can it encourage the use of ICT for

teachers’ own CPD?

The Menu Approach to CPD

From Bulletin to Twitter

• Share your sources!Delicious/ Diigo links.Direct weblinks.Links to My Languages blog.

Del.icio.us/ Diigo

• What is it?Enables you to save your favourite websites on

an independent (free) account accessible from any computer.

Enables you to share your bookmarks with other people (of your own choice or the public)

Enables you to connect with people you have a common area of interest with

My Del.icio.us Page

My Diigo Page

Del.icio.us or Diigo?• You don’t want to share• You don’t care who you are sharing with• You are only starting• You already know some people who are on

one or the other• You want to widen the geographical area

covered by your PLN• You want to set up/ be part of a group• http://

groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages

I NING• For larger groups e.g. large faculties,

SLN, feeder primaries networks…• Easy to set up• Moderation/ privacy • Easy to upload stuff• Interactive minutes• Resources: Links to blogs, Diigo and

other « resource gathering sites » like…

• http://oldhamsln.ning.com

Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/

• Great to share pictures in a safe manner• Possibility of setting up groups-GREAT potential for language teachers• http://www.flickr.com/groups/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/imagestoteachlanguages/

Set up by @aliceayel

Slideshare

• Publish presentations• Share presentations• Protect your presentations but still

share the ideas• Connect with people who produce

presentations on topics that are of interest to you (social networking facilities)

http://www.slideshare.net/icpj

My Slideshare page

Scribd

• To share documents• “follow” people with similar interests• To publish those documents on blogs

without facility to directly upload documents (Blogger plaform)

http://www.scribd.com

My Scribd Page

http://www.scribd.com/icpj

VodpodWhat does it do?Collects videos across a wide range of video sharing sites Can be put on a blog or a NING page.

http://vodpod.com/isabellejones

What does it look like?

Twitter next?

• Still not mainstream• Not accessing a certain age range• Negative press//Facebook• Celebrities • Need to agree a code of conduct

• MFL Bulletin to link to Tweets??

This is the future!

• Local/ National TeachMeets• FlashMeetings• Skype surgeries • Networking time included on school’s

timetables and CPD calendars

Favourite tools for CPD in the MFL Faculty

Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School Oldham@icpjones

http://isabellejones.blogspot.com