category: Classroom, Photos    

category: CALL, ICT in Education    

Since last week I’ve been using a new learner response system launched by Promethean called Active Expression. Used in conjunction with an interactive whiteboard, children can send their responses to the screen which can then be viewed and analyzed as soon as everyone has voted. Unlike the previous voting system, which children could only use [...]

category: ICT in Education    

First week back to school and I’m still going through that phase of getting to know the children in my class. Looking at some information about St Luke’s, I learned that about 33% of the children in the school speak English as an additional language, with 72% on the first three stages of fluency (according [...]

category: Multilingualism    

Today is the last day of the conference and many of the participants are already rushing to the airport to fly back home. I decided to stay and leave on Saturday. I had the chance to listen to the last keynote speaker, Rita Franceschini, from the Free University of Bozen, in Italy. She talked about [...]

category: Aila 2008