For more information and registration, please send an email to onlinepld@nzalt.org.nz
The webinar topics are decided based on teachers' needs, so please let us know by email what topics you are interested in.
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During this unprecedented time, NZALT is aware of increased PLD needs in regards to online/ remote teaching. We will offer Webinars tailored to those needs.
For some starter ideas on the questions/ requests during 2020, please follow this link.
We are aware that many of you have already found a lot of useful resources and websites to support their learners from the distance.
It would be great if you would share your great ideas using the Padlet below. Feel free to share the Padlet with other languages colleagues.
This webinar is being hosted by Janet McAllister together with Madlen Kunath. Janet will share some of the activities which they have been using at Wellington Girls' College to get students talking again after the disruptions of Covid and the lockdowns. It includes a number of activities from Dr Gianfranco Conti's presentation at the NZALT 2021 Conference. We are very grateful to Janet for sharing her knowledge and expertise in this area.
The material from this webinar will also be presented at the NZALT 2022 Conference in Dunedin.
This will be a practical session with the opportunity to ask questions and share your ideas with others.
This will be a practical session with the opportunity to ask questions and share your ideas with others.
FOLLOW-UP: Creating virtual field trips, treasure hunts and city rallies with Padlet's interactive map and Google Earth
FOLLOW-UP: Creating virtual field trips, treasure hunts and city rallies with Padlet's interactive map and Google Earth
How to create your own Google Site
How to create your own Google Site
These webinars will give teachers an opportunity to find out why to use Google Site and how to create their own for resources sharing and collaboration in their classroom. The webinars are open to teachers who are new to Google Site as well as teachers who are already familiar with it but need a guiding hand in developing their own Sites. Both Webinars will be run by Madlen and Sue Pommarede.
Activities to support your students for the Listening and Reading External Assessment Standards
The webinar will share some activities to help prepare students with simple individual, partner and group activities, many based on Dr Gianfranco Conti's ideas. There will also be an opportunity for teachers to share their favourite activities, which they have used with their students.
FOLLOW-UP: Creating virtual field trips, treasure hunts and city rallies with Padlet's interactive map and Google Earth
This Webinar will be an opportunity for those teachers who participated in an earlier Webinar to progress and share their knowledge of using Padlet and Google Earth to create virtual field trips and treasure hunts.
REPEAT: Creating virtual field trips, treasure hunts and city rallies with Padlet's interactive map and Google Earth
The Webinar has been presented at NZALT 2021 conference in Wellington and on September 2
We will explore how the online tool Padlet works, and how the interactive map function can be employed in foreign language teaching to create imaginary or real travel itineraries, treasure hunts and city/ country rallies. During the currently limited opportunities for international travel, this device- and browser-independent tool offers collaborative and creative opportunities for students to explore their own cultures and that of their exchange partners while using the target language. Users can share maps, making it easy to work with exchange partners across borders either in lieu of, or while planning, a potential visit.
In addition to the conference presentation we will also look at Google Earth because a major update of it makes Google Earth a valid alternative to Padlet´s interactive map.
Creating virtual field trips, treasure hunts and city rallies with Padlet's interactive map and Google Earth
The Webinar has been presented at NZALT 2021 conference in Wellington.
We will explore how the online tool Padlet works, and how the interactive map function can be employed in foreign language teaching to create imaginary or real travel itineraries, treasure hunts and city/ country rallies. During the currently limited opportunities for international travel, this device- and browser-independent tool offers collaborative and creative opportunities for students to explore their own cultures and that of their exchange partners while using the target language. Users can share maps, making it easy to work with exchange partners across borders either in lieu of, or while planning, a potential visit.
In addition to the conference presentation we will also look at Google Earth because a major update of it makes Google Earth a valid alternative to Padlet´s interactive map.
The Webinar will focus on pedagogy, activities and selected tools that can be used in Blended teaching and learning. It could include such platforms as Google Classroom, Padlet, Pear Deck, and other e-tools.
It will focus on support for the moderation and marking of the Internal Achievement Standards. This Webinar will be repeated at the NZALT 2021 Conference in July if you are unable to attend this term. It is also a repeat of the Webinar which was run in Term Four last year.
The topic for this webinar is based on feedback from the surveys at the end of last year and will provide opportunities to connect with other language teachers.
This webinar will focus on support for the moderation and marking of the Internal Achievement Standards.
The focus is on a mix of online and classroom activities and strategies to support teachers in preparing their students for the External Achievement Standards.
The focus is on a mix of online and classroom activities and strategies to support teachers in preparing their students for the External Achievement Standards.
The focus is on a mix of online and classroom activities and strategies to support teachers in preparing their students for the External Achievement Standards.
The focus will be on the NCEA Writing Standard and how to gather evidence towards this Achievement Standard.
Share strategies you have discovered during online teaching and that you could take forward into your face-to-face classroom
The focus is on preparing students for NCEA, gathering evidence online, and sharing ideas for planning.
This can cover everything including setting up assignments and comment banks for marking as well as checking for plagiarism.
Please bring along a test you would like to create and a piece of student's writing for feedback.
This session will introduce some methods on how to differentiate in your languages classroom but please do bring along some ideas that already work in your classroom to share with others.
This session is intended to be very practical where teachers can create their own resources together with others, share ideas and tasks that have worked well and could be done across languages. So please bring along some tasks and ideas to share with each other. This may be seen as a follow-up webinar from "Student-centered learning and Collaboration" earlier this month but it's not necessary to have attended the webinar.