French Education – e-french-ology

Mobile phones for collaborating in a traditional classroom

This is an alternative response to a Tweet I found about using mobile technology in class: https://goo.gl/2xV3Ao

To collaborate in a classroom using mobile phones requires the projection of a media that allows multiple users to see what is happening on an entire shared document. This year I’m teaching French Essay writing in small groups of up to 10 students so I had the opportunity to test this. Admittedly you need to haveContinue reading “Mobile phones for collaborating in a traditional classroom”

Twitter and Google docs for research on ‘L’Éducation nationale’

Twitter is catchy; and having ignored it for most of the past few years, I now find it an irresistible alternative that sits somewhere between a serious endeavour and passive moment. Twitter was off-putting because of its reputation for duplicating celebrities’ ergonomics, physical movement, diet and joy without an analytical filter. This was of course a stereotypeContinue reading “Twitter and Google docs for research on ‘L’Éducation nationale’”