Communicate.06 conference - Scottish CILT's national conference
Display
11.05 - 12.30 - Morning sessions
A1: PowerFul PowerPoint - Ewan McIntosh (pictured)
Ways to exploit the most common ICT tool that will hook your students.
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A2: Interacting with interactive whiteboards, Shona Stables (pictured)
Get truly interactive with your board.
Speakers at Communicate.06 - 'Display'
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.
Shona Stables
Recently appointed Principal Teacher of Modern Languages at Kilmarnock Academy in East Ayrshire, Shona has been teaching for 8 years. Before going into teaching she studied French, German and Spanish at Strathclyde University and worked as a bilingual secretary for 4 years in the whisky industry. Shona spent 18 months living and working in Germany and, after a career break to bring up three boys, she went to Paisley University to train as a modern languages teacher. She has a keen interest in ICT and has used a SMART Board daily in her classroom for the past four years.
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.