Two images are worth a thousand words

As the last exercise of the study week in Barcelona we were asked to think again about our image of foreign language teaching and select again a picture that shows our vision of FLT after the study week. If you haven’t seen my post ‚An image is worth a thousand words‘ you might want to […]

Digital tools for foreign language teaching

One of the tasks of the tutorial IT05 about innovative digital tools and methods was to choose three of the digital tools from this e-book as well as one tool from the ECML website and evaluate them according to the following questions: Added value: What is the tool’s potential in language learning contexts? Give some examples. Use […]

The SAMR-model

If you ask teachers what they find challenging with regard to using mobile technologies for their teaching is the missing pedagogical knowledge about how to implement them effectively. To conceptualize the changes that digital tools create, the tutorial IT05 about Innovative digital tools and methods presented the SAMR-model by Ruben Puentedura: The model consists of […]

Reflection about using VEO

Today the study week did not take place in the university as it did the days before, because we visited the EF Language school in Barcelona where we observed a Spanish class and video recorded it with the application VEO. If you don’t know VEO yet, I will present it to you shortly: VEO is […]

Reflection on personal teaching competences

At our first day of the study week we talked about our teaching competences and analysed four teaching competences framework tools: EPOSTL, EPG, DIGCOMPEDU and CPD Framework. All these tools can help you to reflect upon your teaching competencies and for the next task we had to select one of the first three tools. Then, […]

An image is worth a thousand words

The first day of my study week in Barcelona is over and that means it’s time for a little recap of the first task. For the first session we were asked to bring an image that can reflect our personal vision about foreign language teaching and to write a text up to a maximum of […]

Teaching and Learning with Technology

Yesterday, Gabi and I were working on the first tutorial IT01 „Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Technology“ and discussed about the term ‚Digital Native‘ thinking about how we should use technology for teaching in our current time. We worked on a GoogleDocs document and you can see our result here: Teaching and Learning with […]

The use of different media for teaching – a reflection

Within the tutorial IT01 „Approaches to teaching and learning with technology“ we were asked to think about how different media and technologies can be used in teaching. As a base, we had some short statements about the media text, audio, video, computers and social media. After reading the statements and questions involved we had to […]

Gibbs Reflective Cycle

On our second day of ProPIC one of the topic treated in class was reflective practice. In my opinion, one of the things you learn first if you want to become a teacher is to reflect upon the choices you make regarding your teaching. You always have to ask yourself: why did I choose this […]

Finally starting to feel good about my research project

After the low I had at the beginning of this week, I finally feel good about my research project. Today I had a pretty productive day in the library working myself through the amount of books regarding the use of digital tools for foreign language teaching and made a choice for my research question which […]