Learn a language with Podcasts

Radio Lingua Network

By using an iPod or another mp3 player you can take your learning with you – learning with podcasts allows you to learn a language on the move.

Just download free podcasts to your computer or mp3 player, or listen online. You or your students will be using the language with confidence in no time.

These podcasts from Radio Lingua Network help learners to master basic or tricky aspects of more than 15 different languages, such as English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Irish, Japanese, Mandarin etc…

 

 

 

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This is all about learning at any time wherever the learner wants to. It is aimed to anyone from tourists to business people or school students. You can find one minute lessons, pick-up working knowledge, in-depth courses, and insights into using idiomatic expressions.

We were at the Language Show

WAES Stand

The Language Show was a huge success. Our lovely stand really stood out because of all the nice people working there during these three days, giving loads of information about WAES, the cost-effective prices and the fortune cookies!

The Language Show 2008

It was our first year exhibiting at the Language Show. Our stand was visited by lots of people interested in studying and working with us. I think that this initiative will pay off. Our next step will, definitely, be participating in the seminars. I have attended loads of interesting seminars delivered by teachers sharing their projects carried out in their schools, E-learning Consultants highlighting the importance of ICT in the learning process, and teacher trainers such as Russel Stannard, lecturer at the University of Westminster. Russell brought a new concept of giving feedback to students that is fantastic. I will be writing a post on this new way of marking students’ assignments very soon. Actually, I will need two or three volunteers to take part of this project I am starting!

The "Dream Team" at The Language Show

So, let’s hope that next year WAES will be at the Language Show once again, not only publicising our courses but also showing our ICT projects!

Watch the video!

Nice one!

Making a movie in Dvolver

Movie

This is another great web site that allows you and your students to make your own videos.

Dvolver  is extremely user friendly. All you have to do is to select a background, a sky, a plot, characters, type in characters’ lines, choose a backgroung music, select and write a movie title and then it’s ready for you to send via email or you can also copy the embedding code and paste it to Moodle or your website, for eg. facebook.

In the class, this video can be used as a reading comprehension activity or the students can make their own videos and that would be a writing exercise.

Let us know if you use this movie maker with your group and how you used it.