Ideas to encourage peer-to-peer and self training

1. Favouritetools for CPD in the MFL Faculty Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School Oldham @icpjones http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

3. What do you put in it?

5. From Bulletin to Twitter Share your sources! Delicious/ Diigo links. Direct weblinks. Links to My Languages blog.

6. Del.icio.us/ Diigo What is it? Enables you to save your favourite websites on an independent (free) account accessible from any computer. Enables you to share your bookmarks with other people (of your own choice or the public) Enables you to connect with people you have a common area of interest with

7. My Del.icio.us Page

8. My Diigo Page

9. Del.icio.us or Diigo? You don’t want to share You don’t care who you are sharing with You are only starting You already know some people who are on one or the other You want to widen the geographical area covered by your PLN You want to set up/ be part of a group http://groups.diigo.com/group/resources-for-languages

10. I  NING For larger groups e.g. large faculties, SLN, feeder primaries networks… Easy to set up Moderation/ privacy Easy to uploadstuff Interactive minutes Resources: Links to blogs, Diigo and other « resourcegathering sites » like… http://oldhamsln.ning.com

12. Possibility of setting up groups-GREAT potential for language teachers

13. http://www.flickr.com/groups/http://www.flickr.com/groups/imagestoteachlanguages/ Set up by @aliceayel

14. Slideshare Publish presentations Share presentations Protect your presentations but still share the ideas Connect with people who produce presentations on topics that are of interest to you (social networking facilities) http://www.slideshare.net/icpj

15. My Slideshare page

16. Scribd To share documents “follow” people with similar interests To publish those documents on blogs without facility to directly upload documents (Blogger plaform) http://www.scribd.com

17. My Scribd Page http://www.scribd.com/icpj

18. Vodpod What does it do? Collects videos across a wide range of video sharing sites Can be put on a blog or a NING page. http://vodpod.com/isabellejones What does it look like?

19. Twitter next? Still not mainstream Not accessing a certain age range Negative press//Facebook Celebrities Need to agree a code of conduct MFL Bulletin to link to Tweets??

20. This is the future! Local/ National TeachMeets FlashMeetings Skype surgeries Networking time included on school’s timetables and CPD calendars

21. Favouritetools for CPD in the MFL Faculty Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School Oldham @icpjones http://isabellejones.blogspot.com