What should CPD in language teaching look like? What should it involve? Where should it come from?
Episode 1
Welcome to the first edition of the Delivering Development podcast. It is 31 May, 2019 and this will be a relatively short edition where we talk a little about the concept of the podcast, what our goals are and what you can expect each month.
New podcast
Arrangements are well underway for the publication of our first podcast. This will be in conjunction with the wonderful people on our advisory panel and will have the general theme of professional development. Watch this space for news of how
NATE 2019 review
Well, this is the first working day after NATE, and I am looking back at the week in St. Petersburg. Apart from the logistical nightmare that involved last-minute visa applications, an adventure holiday for two children and their two friends,
NATE 2019 St. Petersburg, Russia
Really excited about attending and speaking at NATE this year for the first time. If you are looking for downloads from the conference, you should find them below as they become available. PDF version of the NATE presentation “A holistic
Recycling text books
My wife and I have a whole load of individual text books for EFL, EAP, business English, ESP, you name it. As our careers have evolved, we have little use for the majority of them, and now they are taking
IATEFL 2015 recordings
PSA are just back from a successful trip to Manchester! Pete attended four days of sessions – more anon. Byron was our man at the Materials Writing SIG Pre-conference event. I don’t attend IATEFL myself, but there are some good things
Digital tools and technology in training
I have always been of the opinion that the decisions we make as educators should be informed by research. As such, I am glad that a colleague, Deborah Capras, is undertaking some research in the area of digital tools and
Creating screencasts
We rarely write about software on this blog, but I am currently in the process of creating some screencasts for online training material. I tried several free applications, such as Jing, to produce the videos, but they were all so
FECEI report
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was attending this conference in Madrid this weekend (9 February 2013) in person, and Pete was hoping to do his presentation from a computer in Argentina. I was very much hoping that