Spanish Resources in Glow Learn

Overview 

Recently, a large amount of Spanish content was added to Glow Learn. This content comes in the form of Sonica Spanish activities and is relevant for both Primary and Secondary pupils. There are approximately 150 activities,  particularly suitable to second and third levels.  

Context
The Spanish activities are located in two places in Glow Learn – in the Resources Tab and in the Courses Tab. Where you access the activities from will have an impact on how you can use them and whether or not pupils will have access.

Resources Tab:

National Resources

In the Resources tab, the Spanish resources sit within the National Folder. Click the plus sign to open this folder and you will see three sub folders. The third is called Sonica Spanish by RM Education.

Spanish Topics – Click to enlarge

Within the Sonica Spanish folder, there are sub folders for a range of  topics commonly covered within the Modern Languages curriculum at second and third levels. The topics are listed alphabetically. Inside each of those folders are folders are the activities. 

Resource information – click to enlarge

Each activity has accompanying teacher notes is tagged with the appropriate Curriculum for Excellence levels. This was kindly done by an experienced Modern Languages teacher.

You can learn how to find the tagging information in the ‘how to’  videos later.

Courses Tab:

The activities have also been made into courses.

Using the Sonica Spanish activities

The Spanish activities can be accessed and used in a range of ways.

It is important to know that the computer being used to access the resources has to have Adobe Shockwave Player installed in order for the activities to launch and run.
This can be downloaded free from http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ 

Whole Class Teaching

If you have access to a data projector and interactive whiteboard, you can use the Spanish activities as a whole class teaching resource. By launching one of the activities from within the Resources tab, the whole class can engage with it.  These activities can add enjoyment and challenge to lessons and can help to engage children, as well as offering opportunity for discussion and for teaching points to be made and explored.

Pupil Access

Pupils have no access to the Resources tab in Glow Learn.

Pupils can therefore only access Spanish resources which have been added to a course which the pupils are then enrolled onto. Here are a couple of suggested ways of doing this.

Recipe

Watch the videos below to learn how to access the Sonica Spanish activities and how to enable pupils to access them.

Accessing the Sonica Spanish activities from the Resources Tab (3:54)

 Copying the Sonica Spanish Course for class use (4:33)

 How to create a Glow Learn course (5:36)

 Adding Sonica Spanish activities to your Glow Learn Course (5:08)
 

Adding your own resources to a Glow Learn course (9:34)

 Enrolling pupils onto a Glow Learn Course (4:38)

 Pupil View of a Glow Learn course (2:19)

Impact 

There are many benefits to including the Sonica Spanish activities as part of the range of learning resources made available to pupils as part of their learning.

Adding a range of different resource types can increase pupil motivation and promote learning. Using the Spanish activities can help achieve this, as pupils often see them as a more fun way of learning. 

By giving pupils access to the activities, they have a resource that they can use as often as they wish, helping with initial understanding, consolidation and mastery of a topic.