WORKSHOPS AND COURSES

12th and 14th June, 25th June and 2nd, 5th and 6th July 2012

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BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH PARTNERSHIP TEACHING

Here is a link to the Partnership Teaching Introductory Booklet and I have put up the first of the three videos on Vimeo, the thinking person's Utube, so you can either view it or download it. (417MB) The other two will follow shortly.If there are any parts of the pack you feel would be useful to scan and have avaiable please email me with your suggestions.

Booklet

Video: Introduction to Partnership Teaching

OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH MANTRA BOOKS

MANTRA BOOKS are now advertising their sound enabled versions of some collaborative activities. We have had information about our partnership on this website since the beginning of 2011. However here is some more clarification. The Collaborative Learning Project is and has always been a teacher network committed to sharing evolving good practice by disseminating collaborative activities. We used to share by post and now we share via the internet. We are committed to sharing these materials for free and that is how it will remain. Colleagues who share their activities hold the copyright for their activities, but are happy for them to be tweaked, added to and adapted to different classroom situations.

Mantra have produced sound-enabling and new artwork for some activities. They are a commercial company and hold the copyright for the artwork and the sound enabled versions. They have made a considerable investment and need to charge for their versions. They will pay the project a royalty for the activities they sell and the project will use all of this money to subsidise workshops to develop new materials. So you can either download any activity for free from Collaborative Learning or purchase the same activity sound-enabled with new artwork from Mantra Books. If you have made a contribution to the project resources and have any questions or comments about this arrangement please get in touch.

Currently the project website receives about 9000 hits a month from teachers all round the world. We hope that with the support of Mantra's publicity we will raise our profile.

MORE DETAILS HERE: Mantra Books www.mantralingua.com and their Talking Pen site www.talkingpen.co.uk are also adding some brilliant original artwork to the activities. With these versions and Mantra’s recorder pen (take a look at the new version of this), you will be able to add sound to the paper activities you print off a laser printer. You could for instance add a translation of the text in a first language, character cards will be able to speak out, you can add appropriate sound effects and our games instructions will be able to talk too. Pupils will be able to add comments and reviews of the activities. NALDIC has worked with Mantra to produce a little vodcast to show how all this works which you can find among "more videos" on the drop down menu on the Mantra site.

These versions of the activities will be available via the Mantra and Talking Pen websites. Mantra are exploring ways in which the sound files can be shared between schools, so that if you have produced a Bengali version of an activity because you have a bilingual member of staff, this can be available to colleagues with only a few Bangladeshi pupils and no staff to support them. The activities will be available via the Mantra website and organised in the same way as they are on this site. Mantra will be offering these activities on a subscription basis. The project will receive a proportion of this subscription, all of which will go to support more development workshops. So if you want to say thank you to the project for the free activities you have been able to use over the years, please subscribe.

WOULD YOU LIKE THE PROJECT TO RUN A DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP IN YOUR SCHOOL/SETTING?

Interested? Go here for more detail and then please contact us.

NATE MULTICULTURAL COMMITTEE PROJECT

We launched a dedicated webpage to support NATE's MC committee project to encourage the reading of mulitcultural texts by suggesting titles and providing resources. We wanted to make sure that more texts were used in school and that they were presented in a way which made sure that ethnic minority pupils would be able to contribute their knowledge and experience. If you want to find out more and/or contribute please go to

www.collaborativelearning.org/natemulticultural.html

and email me. And please take a look at the NATE WEBSITE. We are intending a lot of input on EAL at our next conference in York in July.

CLP CONSULTANCY

Please get in touch if you would like us (Stuart Scott and Steve Cooke) to do something for you. We have closed down our consultancy page but we are advertising ourselves modestly on the new whizzy NALDIC site.

NOT SO NEW EAL BILINGUAL FORUM AND THE COCONET

We are keeping this link alive to encourage everyone to join. Please go to this link:

http://groups.google.com/group/eal-bilingual

Tim Spafford and Bill Bolleten have also set up CoConet; a group to support work on community cohesion and they have been very active in providing useful information. To join, go to:

We work closely and often run workshops with LATE (London Association for Teaching English), NALDIC (National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum, UKLA (United Kingdon Literacy Association) NATE (National Association for Teaching English and ASE (Association for Science Education) Here are some recent upcoming events you might be interested in. Look at the websites for more details or to join mailing lists.

NALDIC NATE LATE UKLA ASE ATM Geography Association History Association Humanities Association

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