Joyful Easter, Passover, April Fools & Return to Running a blog


Salut tout le monde!! That is my first put up to my weblog in ages. Nearly a whole 12 months! I will not trouble making apologies and excuses, as I am positive all of the academics on the market know simply how busy life can get!

My cause for returning as we speak is that a couple of week in the past, I introduced on the Spring OMLTA Convention, and through a sidebar dialog in my workshop, I promised that I might share a small lesson/useful resource I had ready for my very own class. We had been discussing how arduous it’s to seek out supplies on media consciousness, and important pondering which might be en français, when in comparison with the wealth of supplies that our English mainstream instructing colleagues have. I discovered a YouTube video that addressed an consciousness of “pretend information” and tips on how to examine if one thing you learn on-line might be validated. It was one thing I used with my grade 6 French Immersion class, however might positively be tailored to quite a lot of grades and functions.

Sadly, I admit that my submitting system generally leaves one thing to be desired, as I rush to complete issues to maneuver on to a different life function I occupy. Nevertheless I lastly situated the query sheet that I ready for college kids to accompany a YouTube video on this subject.

It is all yours! I used the pupil handout to provide them a takeaway, and to assist centre the dialogue, in addition to to provide them a few concrete issues to search for when viewing and listening to the video. I really feel like I skipped some components of the video, however I didn’t preserve nice instructor notes on that, so please choose for your self. I can also let you know that we slowed down the video (to .75 velocity) and turned on subtitles – this may not have been essential for all of my college students, however some actually received extra out of the listening expertise with that scaffolding.

Try the opposite movies supplied by the channel Hygiène Mentale. There have plenty of nice stuff. And if you happen to give you methods to make use of them, and sources to assist guarantee college students entry the knowledge we need, please share as nicely.

Continually give, continually gain - Chinese proverb - Teaching FSL

I’ve additionally not too long ago discovered this 1jour1actu (1 jour une query) video about “les pretend information.” A tip: When you play the similar video on Youtube, you could have extra management over the recording velocity, and may gradual it down. However please do examine – soemtimes, what we discover on YT might be only a snippet as a substitute of the total merchandise.

À bientôt, mes amis!



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