PPLI Annual Report 2020 - Flipbook - Page 19
Communities of Practice (1.C.5)
Action Progress
PPLI facilitated 54 CoP meetings in 2020. From January to March 2020, 12 were held in the local education
centres. In September 2020, the CoP moved online and started with the ‘Let’s share!’ theme. Teachers, FLA and
PME students attended and shared what was working well online. They also discussed planning for teaching
MFL online, including useful platforms. 594 attended in 2020. These are the top ideas shared from September
to December 2020:
A glimpse at ideas
shared during the
MFL CoP
Using whiteboards to
provide visual aids for
group discussion (Oral
impacted by wearing
masks etc)
Using Flipgrid
to motivate
students to speak
in the TL
Vocaroo
Using
collaboration
space in OneNote
for group
work
Office 365 also
has a text to speech
possibility. Very useful
for students preparing
oral work
Using apps
where a lot of premade les are available
for language
teachers
Using Flipgrid
to motivate
students to speak
in the TL
Camscanner
app for uploading
more than one page
at a time in PDF
format
20
Using mote
on Google
Classroom for
oral feedback
wordwall.net
Getting to know
your students
through
PicCollage
Using MS
Forms for grammar
quizzes. It helps for
efficient marking
Warm up
games including
Palm Reading
Project work –
asking the students
to become estate
agents and sell
a house
https://bit.ly/3i4zuFl
Text to speech
programme to help
with pronunciation
Collaboration
tools, including
the use of
Jamboard.
Using zero prep
games (Last Man Standing,
Memory Chains, Simon Says,
Pointless, etc.) as settlers when
teachers arrive in the classroom
now most students are
in situ and teachers
are moving