Thu 24 Aug 2006
Scottish schools’ podcasts help pupils in class and with with their homework
Posted by Graham Stanley under podcasting , MFL , pedagogyVia Joe Dale’s wonderful blog, comes news of two Foreign Language podcasts from a school in Aberdeen, Scotland that have been designed to help students with homework: Bienvenue and Hallo (in French and German respectively).
The advice given about how to use podcasts to help learn vocabulary includes:
- using the audio as a pronunciation model for for vocabulary they have already come across
- to revise vocabulary by writing down meanings in the pauses between words or phrases
- as a subliminal learning tool (just by listening to the podcast, students will start processing the language)
In another post on Joe’s blog, he reproduces feedback from a pupil of another Scottish school’s podcasting project (this time a primary school):
‘In French it is fun using the iPods. We get to listen to the French from the computer and do worksheets.This is more fun than doing work in class. French is my best thing at school.’
August 24th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Hi Graham,
Thanks for the mention. I’ve been writing a lot about podcasting in Scotland recently because I think these projects are worth shouting about. They could also encourage other teachers to have a go themselves. You seem to have a similar philosophy in your work.
Best wishes
Joe
Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom - www.joedale.typepad.com
September 29th, 2006 at 8:03 am
Hi Graham
Thanks for mentioning the work we are trying to do with all this fancy IT stuff up here in Huntly, Aberdeenshire. Heres the websute you mentioned.
http://www.mfle.typepad.com/tgs2
You might also be interested in another blog / podcast project where I’ve asked pupils to critically assess their peer’s recorded work. It has a kind of Assessment is for Learning / Formative Assessment slant.
http://www.thegordonschools.typepad.co.uk/ratemymates
April 6th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
What can I say… very interesting stuff
Using the audio as a pronunciation model for for vocabulary they have already come across, a really good idea