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IATEFL 2010

Conference Presentation

onestopclil.com - more than just a website

Thursday 8 April
Session 1.1 : 1040-1140

 
I was glad to present about onestopclil and the first year and half of existence. I decided to focus on the site as a instrument for teachers offering:

- Ready made materials

- Tools for teachers

- Communication

- Contribution

The abstract from my talk was:

This workshop presents Macmillan's onestopclil website. Participants will not only see the wide-ranging resources, magazine, methodology papers, forum, lesson share, and reviews available at the site, they will also have the opportunity to try out and discuss the materials firsthand and engage in debate with the speaker about CLIL materials and methods.

The site offers 'packs' of resources. The very fact that it is accumulative means that subscribers are always getting more for their money. I used the topic of health and disease to show one example of such a package.

The resources are language embedded, which means that language is provided alongside content tasks.

The young learners section offers very attractive integrated content and language resources based on the primary content curriculum. Here, you can see a summary of the amazing world of animals pack.

This example shows animal pictures along with a table for ticking characteristics of animals.
The animations section offers a range of subject specific animations. All of the animations are aimed specifically at topics from content curriculum areas and some of the animations are embedded within generic content PPTs.
In the young learners section you will find a number of resources linked to methodology articles written by Jean Brewster such as this example which presents Venn Diagrams and Grids.
I made a reference to FACTWorld as we have a summary of the Cafe CLIL discussion posted to onestopclil every month. This is a central aspect of the communication strand of onestopclil.

Vocabulary worksheets take images, terms and defintions and a variety of task types for recycling key terms.
The image bank offers a large collection of subject specific pictures for use in the class.

Without labels...

or with labels...
Texts are accompanied with charts, tables, and diagrams to support reading and information transfer tasks.

There is a large collection of question loops throughout the site both for young learners and secondary subject learners.
Subscription not only gives you access to both onestopenglish and onestopclil but you also get free access to the online school dictionary along with all the digital riches that includes.

Macmillan are also licensed to use the resources at the British Science Museum website such as this experience for making a 'banger' with instructions, reporting worksheets all with embedded language support.
We're also producing a collection of information searching materials. Here you can see a cutting from one such whole-class speaking activity which has learners looking for and sharing information about planets.

There are many wordlists which are available in editable word documents.
I'm including a link to my PPT here and there are many more things to say. I'll add more information in this site as more dimensions are added to onestopclil.  
One thing I'm looking forward to seeing is an archive of knowledge maps with embedded CALP.

Watch this space!

 
15.04.2010  

 


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