I’ve just had a look at the Berwick Secondary College website in which it has a page discussing the use of ICT in Language classrooms. The page can be accessed here. The page has a section entitles why use ICT in the teaching of LOTE, however this section is a little superficial in its reasoning for why to use ICT in LOTE. I agree with the value of ICT for live interactions with people from the target language, this has obvious benefits for the listening to authentic productions from the target language and for interaction with native speakers of the language, however it mentions that the use of ICT can provide innovative teaching programs to compliment face to face teaching and explicitly mentions that it isn’t to replace face to face teaching. A little more explanation on the ways in which ICT can be used innovatively to teach LOTE would have been helpful. The page also had a section for ICT resources related to LOTE, however this, too, is a little superficial in that the resources provided are few and very obvious in nature, such as the department of education’s page of teaching resources for the subject. The learning federation link provided however does have some useful resources for LOTE teachers. The site may be accessed here. The resources are arranged in two main categories with is useful, multimedia and interactive programs. The multimedia resources include videos and audio recordings and the interactive programs include games that students can play and learn useful language related skills in the process. One which I previewed involved teaching students how to relate kanji by their radicals in Japanese and also find commonalities in meaning from looking at the radicals. It also taught students how to look kanji up in a kanji dictionary by way of radicals, all these skills are taught through playing a treasure hunt game for the different kanji on an island, the places in which the students find the kanji relate to the meanings and I believe the game was quite well set out overall. More investigation is needed to find programs and multimedia that are relevant to the classrooms in which I’ll be teaching adn that are beneficial and not just superficial however the site looks promising in terms of starting a resource pool of activities/media/resources that can be used in the classroom. I would like to develop a website myself in which resources can be pooled together under various menu types, by topic/grammar structure/resource type or at least provide links to relevant resources under these different headings.