Social networking is a much maligned concept in education, often steeped in misapprehension and unsubstantiated fears about online safety and privacy. The fact is that social networking tools, when used appropriately, can support and encourage learning by giving individual learners the opportunity to construct their own learning and to share both resources and experiences in [...]
Archive for the ‘21st Century’ category
Jan 09 2011
Learning Without Frontiers Awards
Last week I learned that I have been nominated for the 2011 Learning without Frontiers Awards in the category of Hero Innovator in Secondary Learning for the work I do here at Box of Tricks and in my post as Head of Modern Languages at Nottingham High School. Learning Without Frontiers is a global platform [...]
Nov 20 2010
Storybird – Story Books in Foreign Languages
Storybird is a fantastic tool that allows your and your pupils to make wonderful and engaging story books… so long as they are in English. I’ve been using Storybird with my pupils for a little while now but, thus far, have not felt I could really recommend Storybird to other teachers of foreign languages because [...]