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Accents
DVDs
Comic Life
Forms / Writing
Frames
French
resources
Games
Video/audio
downloads
Resources
from individuals, pending categorisation!
Vincent
Everett resources
Steven
Fawkes
Helen Myers
Accents
How can I type
accents?
Click here
to download n A4 sheet which displays accents - designed to be stuck up next
to computers.
Linguascope
sells very reasonably priced mousemats displaying accents.
If you
have Microsoft Office 2003, you can access a toolbar for inserting accents.
Comic Life for Windows
(Helen Myers 24.10.07)
Link to download: http://plasq.com/downloads
Once file has been created in Comic Life, it can be 'exported' so that even
people who do not have the Comic Life program installed can view it..
(1) File/export/email [the program converts the pages into jpegs and
automatically adds them as attachments to an email)
(2) File/export/export to html [the program converts the pages to html ..
creates a 'launcher'
file and the pages themselves. Pages
(3) File/export/export to image(s)[the program converts the pages to jpegs
AND bitmaps] Page
1 jpg Page
2 jpg Page
1 bitmap Page
2 bitpmap
(3) File/export/export to movie [the program converts the pages to an avi
movie which can be played through, for example, windows movie player].
| DVDs |
| Where can I buy Foreign DVDs? |
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I have recently discovered an Internet site which has loads of Art House and
World cinema DVDs. (when you need English subtitles to films) : http://www.blahdvd.com/blah/DVD_Home.aspx
I find this is a good supplement to the Amazon site of Art House &
International.
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| Forms |
| How can I create
interactive forms / writing frames? |
| Click here
to download an explanation about how to get pupils focused on their
writing through the use of forms (drop-down, free text, check box) |
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French
Resources
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| Where can I download
resources from this site? |
| Click here
for the index page to resources kept on this site. |
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| Games
Resources - boards, cards, dice etc |
| A company called Synergy Learning ( 01243 779967 ) sells blank playing cards
@ £13-00 per 1,000. Does anyone have experience of using cards with MFL
activities ? |
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Dear
Richard
I
can definitely recommend the noiseless dice from his company!.. and also their
mini whiteboards ... we ordered over 1,000 of the boards so that every
classroom in the school could have a set ... very quick 'assessment for
learning'! In cse anyoner doesn;t know the company, they usually have a
stand at BETT. http://www.synergy-group.co.uk/learnhome.html
for
the white boards (which are more durable than the laminated ones):
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| Videos/ Movies / audio
download |
| Where
can I get free video/audio clips from the Internet? |
| Many web sites have
videos/audio which you can download from their sites. Increasingly,
many news / entertainment sites let you 'subscribe' to them so that your
computer will automatically download new videos/audio which they make
available.
A popular, time-saving, efficient way to keep
up-to-date with where these are, is via iTunes - a free 'database' which
you can download free and which gives you the interface for finding these
sites.
e.g. the path to videos for language education:
iTunes store / Podcasts / Education
Featured ones are in the middle, on the right,
the 'top podcasts' for education are ranked in order of popularity
currently language podcasts seem to have really taken off - well done to
Mark Pentleton for being at the top for ages with his new 'Coffee
Break Spanish'!), and you click 'see all' to see all pages (currently
5pages, and 52 of them are for learning languages!)
For 'authentic' video/audio, change your store
from 'UK' to the country of your choice, and follow links to Podcasts.
If you want to 'subscribe' you just click
'subscribe'. BUT, if you don't have an iPOD or you don't know if you
want it yet, click on the picture itself, which takes you to a description
and a link to the WEBSITE where there are instructions on downloads.
There are many sites which give
links to resources e.g.
http://www.podcastingnews.com/
and www.podcast.net
Here's a link to a page where we have listed ones
we've looked at! 'Video/audio downloads for
free!' |
