Technologie rolplay in class
Except the lack of sleep, the power point was not a bad idea with my students. We can believe that they will fall asleep, because power point can be boring, because I don’t check if they are involved in the course … but no, they were interested, they were asking good questions, they were happy because they understood better with my power point than with the book.
So now, I don’t use power point anymore, just in rare cases, when I want to explain them things with a diagram, or when we have a culture point and I want to show them pictures.
I use technology in class when I want to show them videos, or when we’re doing a listening activity. I’m native speaker in the language I’m teaching, so at the beginning, I was thinking that my "French voice" will be sufficient, but I quickly learnt that for most of people, it's important to hear more than one voice to learn, so I try to use CD and videos for my listening activities.
Outside of class, when I’m planning my class, I use internet a lot, because we have a websites about French as Foreign Language (FLE in French), where I can find a lot of activities, a lot of research about teaching French, good methods to teach French pronunciation, lists of irregular verbs, of exceptions for grammar rules, of advices to learn vocabulary … So, as a teacher planning his lesson, I use a lot internet. I was thinking about a