Communicate.06 conference - Scottish CILT's national conference
Creativity
11.05 - 12.30 - Morning sessions
A3: Lights, Camera, Action! - Mark Pentleton and PiE Students, Manuel Montenegro
Inspire your students with digital video in the classroom.
13.30 - 15.30 - Afternoon sessions
B3: Le podcast: 'Today I made a radio show!' - Maureen Gilchrist, Ewan McIntosh, John Johnston (pictured)
Use digital audio to give students a real audience to speak to.
B4: Comic Life - Vivien Bruce and Kay McMeekin
Use digital photographs to help improve writing skills.
Speakers at Communicate.06 - 'Creativity'
Maureen Gilchrist
At present, Maureen is PT Modern Languages in Holyrood Secondary, Glasgow, but is just about to take up post as Adviser in Modern Languages for Glasgow City Council.
Maureen is interested in exploring ways of accessing up-to-date technology to motivate pupils and provide a more attractive learning environment, and also of motivating staff and providing a more functional and manageable communications media.
Ewan McIntosh
Ewan McIntosh is currently Development Officer for the Modern Foreign Languages Environment (MFLE), a pilot project aimed at supporting MFL educators in Scotland in their continuing professional development.
As a classroom teacher at Musselburgh Grammar School, East Lothian, Ewan helped launch the first open-comment school blogs in the UK and the first schools podcast in Europe. This work was shortlisted for a New Statesman New Media Award and won the European Award for Languages, 2005.
John Johnston
John's professional life began with zoo-keeping, and an interest in conservation and research. He then trained for the PGCE and has been a primary class teacher for 14 years. During this time, he developed a parallel interest in ICT, sparked by HyperCard. This deepened and led to working on and creating learning resources with HyperCard, SuperCard and Flash. For some time, John has worked with children producing digital content, and this has involved digital video, video conferencing, blogging and podcasting projects.
Vivian Bruce
Vivian is a teacher of French and German who has been seconded to her present post as Staff Tutor for four years. Her remit includes working with Partners in Excellence as well as work with MLPS. Vivian's main interest at present is using ICT to enhance learning and teaching of modern languages.
Kay McMeekin
Kay has worked as a Languages Support Officer at East Ayrshire Council for three years. She taught French and German for 13 years in Ayrshire, completed an ATQ in primary teaching and subsequently worked as MLPS tutor in the 27-day programme. Kay's special areas of interest are early language learning and ICT - she loves gadgets and her Mac in particular! She's also been involved in a Socrates Lingua project on Staging Early Foreign Language Learning (for 6–10 year olds) and works with senior pupils within the Partners in Excellence project.
Speakers at Communicate.06
Vivien Bruce - Staff Tutor, North Ayrshire Partners in Excellence.
Peter Ford - Co-founder of ICT4Schools which provides advice and training to schools; keynote speaker at Communicate.06.
Maureen Gilchrist - PT of Modern Languages at Holyrood Secondary School, Glasgow.
Lynne Horn - PT of the Language Faculty at Tobermory High School on the Isle of Mull in Argyll & Bute.
John Johnston - Teacher at Sandaig Primary School, Glasgow and author of the popular Sandaig Primary blog.
Ewan McIntosh - Development Officer for the MFLE and prolific edublogger.
Kay McMeekin - CMW Support Officer, East Ayrshire.
David Muir - Lecturer in the Educational Computing division in the Jordanhill Campus of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, blogger on edcompblog and expert on educational uses of the web.
Mark Pentleton - Project Co-ordinator, Partners in Excellence.
Shona Stables - PT of Modern Languages at Kilmarnock Academy.