Bio


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Background
Wikispace created by Graham Chandler, a teacher seeking to embrace innovation and change and implement practical solutions in education and volunteering,
 * MFL (Modern Foreign Languages) practitioner with 30 years' experience with a wide variety of responsibilities in a contrasting range of maintained and independent sector schools in the UK
 * ICT skills honed in teaching and work coordinating a volunteer programme involving over 100,000 students annually in over 900 schools in 5 countries across Europe

Having come late to the party in many respects following my return to the UK in September 2009 from a period of secondment in Eastern Europe, I have been amazed by the sheer wealth of online resources which have come on stream in the last few years. || media type="custom" key="14035678" align="center"

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VLE
In November 2011 I was asked to design and build a new MFL section on the newly created VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) at the school where I teach and so I set about researching the latest web 2.0 tools and seeing what other practitioners were doing. In February 2012 I attended the inspiring Languages SouthEast ICT and Languages Conference #ililc 2012 where I was able to tap into the latest developments nationally and meet some of the mfl twitterati and other key players in the world of MFL.

This has led me to explore emerging trends both in the UK and further afield at a time when the number of student-owned devices in my own classes has risen sharply and looks set to increase.

Wiki Launch - April 2012
I have started this wiki in an attempt to make sense of these recent experiences and share my observations of the role and practice of MFL teaching and learning at a time of great innovation and rapid development.

On 20 April I presented '** Back to the Future - Meeting the Challenges of Digital Inclusion **' to the whole staff at my school. You can view the presentation here or follow the links to the other pages on this wiki via the right-hand menu. Below is a flavour to whet your appetite! media type="custom" key="15425702"

Please feel free to add below your comments (anything from 3 words to describe your reaction to this wiki to a sentence or two) - your feedback is greatly appreciated! This is very much a work in progress. media type="custom" key="15386146"