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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Our information databank

For your record, the following are links to our websites and imprtant documents:

LOTE website - includes infromation and documents relating to the theort of teaching http://sites.google.com/site/lotechinese/

Some documents are also stored under FILES: http://sites.google.com/site/lotechinese/file-cabinet  

Nihao High - includes resources for teaching Chinese, as well as examples of websites and ICT tutorials. Chinese Culture Dictionary is here. https://sites.google.com/site/nihaohigh/home

Google Sites and Teaching of Mandarin

In our last August class, we discussed the use of Google Sites as an application for involving students in creating their class and personal websites as a framework for engaging students in-decision making regarding their own learning, exchanging information with others schools and for displaying projects for others to see. Below is a video describing how easy it is to work with Google sites. For more ICT tutorials, please visit our Nihao High website https://sites.google.com/site/nihaohigh/home/ or go directly to the Google Sites Tutorials link on that site https://sites.google.com/site/nihaohigh/home/technical-support

Ania Lian

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

A learning task in intercultural competence

On 12th August, Ania offered a conceptual background for creating lessons in intercultural learning. Please, keep collecting and sending online resources which can serve as a basis for such lessons. We will use them in the next meeting.