Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 February 2010

I'm a WebFox!


Yesterday I took a Web Behaviour Test as part of BBC's The Virtual Revolution - investigating how 20 years of the web has changed our lives.

I was asked questions about my Internet useage, how much time I spent online and doing what, how much 'multi tasking' I did and my response to a number of statements.

Would I be a bear, an elephant, an octopus, a hedgehog, a fox, an elk, a leopard or an ostrich?


My result is below - not a bad appraisal. Why not take the test and see which animal you are!

If you like to know what this quiz is hoping to achieve, check out what the scientists say.

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Friday, 1 January 2010

Happy New Year 2010 in many tongues

Thanks to the BBC Mundo site for this multilingual greetings clip.




Un saludo diferente. La BBC celebra la llegada del 2010 en todas las lenguas en que su Servicio Mundial transmite programas de radio y publica páginas web.

El siguiente es el orden en que aparecen en el video: inglés, persa, uzbeko, swahili, ucraniano, birmano, ruso, bengalí, dari, árabe, portugués, mandarín, francés, cingalés, pashtún, azeri, serbio, hindi, indonesio, nepalí, kirundi, vietnamita, macedonia, somalí, tamil, kirguís, urdu, albanés, turco, cantonés, hausa y español.

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Monday, 14 December 2009

Your chance to influence the BBC's PMFL content!


I'm helping the producers of the BBC schools website a bit this week, giving them some suggestions about their Primary French and Spanish pages.


If you haven't seen them, there are animated characters to help you speak the language, games to practice the vocabulary in each section, and some interesting fact files about the countries, traditions, festivals etc. The sites are quite different in layout and content. for examples, the French site has two sections, 1 and 2 and is hosted by Roller. The Spanish site looks more minimal at first glance but has some interesting sections, not just on vocabulary.

Have a look and let me know what you think -

Which do you prefer?
Do you like the site(s)?
What is your favourite bit?
Wat doesn't work for you?
What would you like added?
what would be most helpful to you?
which resources are most appealing to you - games, activities, worksheets, quizzes, songs, factfiles, sound files, flashcards, grammar notes, video clips, world language clips??

Leave a comment below or tweet me @lisibo or contact me directly via my email.
Don;t miss your chance - if you dont ask, you don't get!

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Monday, 7 December 2009

Working for the Beeb.


Sadly not as a Blue Peter presenter, but I have recently been involved in some work for the BBC World Class site.


As their website says -
BBC World Class is an initiative bringing the benefits of international school linking to schools across the UK.
World Class also encourages children and schools to get their stories on air and on line across the BBC.

Thanks to a recommendation from Liz Hitchcock of the British Council, I was asked to work with BBC World Class to come up with some resources to link a reading by Michael Morpurgo of his book, This morning I met a whale, to the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit via a 'Share a story' activity. The idea was that two (or more) partner schools read the book and complete some activities that they can share with one another.

You can download a PDF of the activities and enjoy the beautiful pictures of the Thames and the whale.

I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Morpurgo's beautifully written story, based on real events in January 2006 when a 15 ft northern bottle nosed whale was found swimming past the Houses of Parliament before getting stranded at Battersea Bridge and sadly dying before it could be returned to open water. In the story, the whale comes with a message for the children (because adults are hard hearted) to pass on the message that we need to look after the planet. A simple story with a powerful message.

Even if you haven't got a partner school or even a class with whom to do the activities, I'd recommend the book as a good (very quick) read - for children and adults alike. And if you use the activities, well, let me know what you think. They're not all my work - I just gave ideas, some of which haven't been used - but I'm obviously interested in views as they have my name on them!!

Perhaps Blue Peter might come calling next.....

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