Presenters at Communicate.08
The following practitioners will be presenting at Communicate.08.
Wendy Adeniji
Wendy works as a teacher, trainer and consultant specialising in the use of ICT to teach languages. She regularly delivers training to schools, local authorities and Regional Support Groups. She is a consultant for the BBC, QCA and CILT.
She writes teaching materials for Heinemann and training materials for Learning and Teaching Scotland, and is the MFL moderator for the NgfL Teacher Resource Exchange. Wendy also writes regularly for the TES on matters relating to MFL and ICT.
Margaret Cassidy
Margaret trained as a primary teacher and went through the MLPS training in the early nineties. She has worked with BBC computers, Acorn computers and currently enjoys all the fun and motivation PCs bring to the classroom.
At present, Margaret is a Curriculum Development Officer for ICT in Stirling Authority and is involved in working with pupils and teachers in schools in all areas of the curriculum. She provides course at Riverside ICT Learning Centre for teachers to demonstrate how ICT can be used to enhance teaching and learning.
Claire Dugard
Claire Dugard has been a Language Teaching Adviser at CILT since 2001 and works with schools and languages departments across a range of initiatives. She leads CILT’s support for teachers of community languages and is a tutor on the CILT GTP course at the University of Birmingham, with additional responsibility for ICT pedagogy training across this national GTP. She set up and managed CILT research and development into digital video technology and is author of ‘Impact on learning – What ICT can bring to MFL in KS3’ (with Sue Hewer, 2003) and ‘Lights, camera, action – Digital video in the languages classroom’ (with Ruth Bailey, 2007).
Chris Gallacher
Chris works for the British Council Scotland, based at their office in Edinburgh. Chris works on a range of eLearning tools, all of which help promote internationalism in schools and facilitate sustainable international school partnership. These products include: eLanguages, eTwinning and the Global Gateway website.
Prior to this, Chris worked as a teacher and ICT-co-ordinator at the British Council in Tokyo.
George Glass
George is headteacher of Cauldeen Primary School in Inverness. It is a mainstream primary school with a significant International Education element embedded into the curriculum.
George says: 'All classes have links to another school overseas or more than one school. Every pupil every year has the opportunity of communicating with children from a different culture. We have used second language learning in the early years and where appropriate the links have been formalised through the eTwinning programme. International team teaching and the use of audience to raise language standards are features of our links to partner schools. ICT is the principal medium to sustain our links.'
Kath Holton
Kath has been teaching for 32 years and is Head of French and German in a comprehensive school in North Wales.
She is currently engaged in a CILT Cymru project involving the use of digital voice recorders. This project was initially for the benefit of GCSE pupils for exam practice but Kath has also been using them extensively in KS3 for Assessment for Learning and adding to “vokis” on her wiki website. This has proved to be so motivating for pupils that they have started to practise their target language in their own time.
John Low
John Low joined the British Council as an educational consultant in September after a career in mainstream secondary education. He was a geography teacher in a number of Edinburgh schools and headteacher at Linlithgow Academy for 17 years. He also enjoyed taking part in a Fulbright teacher exchange opportunity in 1981. John's role involves promoting UK innovation, diversity, creativity and excellence in the field of education by contributing to the British Council strategy and providing expertise.
John has an enduring interest in outdoor activities and is still involved in taking youngsters on ambitious overseas expeditions, focusing on community projects.
Stephen McCrossan
Stephen McCrossan has taught computing for 15 years, and managed at faculty and departmental level for 12 years. Stephen is currently on a secondment as an ICT Development Officer (Secondary) in North Lanarkshire Council.
Ewan McIntosh
Ewan McIntosh is a National Adviser: Learning and Technology Futures for Learning and Teaching Scotland. He advises on how social media can be harnessed for public service and education management and used to improve learning.
Based in the Edinburgh area, Ewan speaks internationally, leading student and teacher workshops and conferences.
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