Languages and Learning: 2021

Friday 26 March 2021

GCSE Spanish Leisure Deck Toys - copy for teachers

Tuesday 9 March 2021

Flippity quiz show on GCSE Spanish Daily Routine and A level ser and estar

Today I used the flippity.net quiz show template to create translation sentences into both Spanish and English on the topic of Daily Routine. We played Blooket as a warmup and then went to the quiz show. This group is very bright but fairly quiet so I had to work quite hard to get them to collaborate and venture answers but we got there in the end.

Here is the link to the GCSE Sp daily routine game and this one is for Ser and Estar for A level.

Friday 5 March 2021

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward

As those of us in the know, know, so to speak, there is really no better community of educators than the Modern Language teachers, known collectively as the #mfltwitterati amongst others. The sharing of ideas and resources is unbelievable and inspiring.

Today I asked for help applying the theories of Gianfranco Conti re the correct order of activities and almost immediately I had access to resources from @SrSpall, @BotonesSalgado, @Aurelie_LTH and @MrsWardMFL

I took our existing PPTs, then took inspiration from Aurelie's templates for more Spanish activities on the topic of clothes and combined them into one mega-PowerPoint. You can download it from Slideshare here

I want to add that my brilliant colleague Julie in the Spanish dept isn't on Twitter but constantly makes resources for our dept, some slides of which are in here.

KS3 Spanish La ropa MARS EARS from Amanda Salt

Tuesday 23 February 2021

OneNote as your teacher planner video

Tuesday 16 February 2021

Deck.Toys delight

Within a day of starting to use Deck.Toys I had already decided that the potential was so great that it was worth investing in the Pro account. So far I have made KS3 sets on shopping, house and clothes, a GCSE set for daily routine and an A level set for subjunctive phrases.

Esmeralda Salgado has made a really useful Youtube video about creating your decks. You can choose different templates, from linear to a boardgame.

We have all the vocab for KS3 and GCSE on our Quizlet so I was easily able to export the vocab sets to Deck Toys to use as the study set within each deck. I also exported them to Blooket, Gimkit and Flippity as well as quickly creating activities on Wordwall and and Learning Apps. I was then able to embed those activities into my Deck as well as using the plethora of activities available within the deck.

It's easy to assign a deck to a classroom or share with other teachers. I'm also sharing the decks I make via a Wakelet collection

To my mind, Deck Toys has the ability to pull together some of my favourite websites for practising and embedding vocabulary. I look forward to getting feedback from the pupils once they have had a go at working through them on their own.

Sunday 14 February 2021

Checking out Deck Toys

I have heard a lot about Deck Toys recently so decided to check it out, using @botonessalgado's very useful video on how to create a new deck I have all the vocab for the units we teach in Quizlet which means that it is very easy to import it into Deck Toys and set up a new deck. Here's a very basic one I have made for KS3 Spanish on shops and quantities. Now that I've got the basic concept, I'm off to make some with my sentence builders

Wednesday 10 February 2021

Assessment and feedback in Microsoft Teams

Today I had the privilege of talking about assessment and feedback in Teams as part of an Education Authority (NI) webinar to share good practice. The webinar recording is on their website, My talk starts at 36 mins (and my reminder alarm for my son's drum lesson goes off at 43.32!

Here is my PowerPoint (template by Slidesmania)

Feedback in Microsoft Teams from Amanda Salt

Thursday 4 February 2021

Navigating Teams, a guide for pupils

Monday 1 February 2021

Pay it forward: pets las mascotas

The wonderful MFL teachers on Twitter and Facebook have been sharing ideas and resources generously as usual, via those media as well as in webinars such as the fab one presented by @mflswavesey hosted by Joe Dale and Helen Myers for ALL, Elena Díaz for Linguascope and the TM MFL Icons webinar with Esmeralda Salgado, Elena Díaz, Adam Lamb Thais López Martín and Kate Jones with the MFL Icons team Coordinator Bex Noble and the team @rosannahume and @missMFL16

So I thought that I would share some of the links for games I have made. I am asalt518 on Blooket and Gimkit if you search for me, you should be able to copy sets.

Here's some for pets (las mascotas):

Quizlet 9.5 Pets Las mascotas

Flippity Flashcards with Spanish and English audio

2nd tab list 3rd tab practice

4th tab Matching activity

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