Neil Ballantyne has devleoped a website which may be of interest to anyone who uses Promethean interactive whiteboards, or wants training on Activstudio software. It includes tutorials to help learn how to develop IWB content, plus an overview of the main tools of Activstudio.
mp3 audio – readers
Congrats to James Schofield on his two new readers for Summertown, entitled ‘Peril in Venice’ and ‘Ekaterina’. The CD contains the mp3 audio file of the whole text to download and listen to on a computer, or copy to an
Review – Blended Learning
Just stumbled across this review of our book on the English Teaching Professional site. ‘….should be a recommended buy for teachers and planners wanting to know more about what new technologies can offer’ Thanks to Viv.
Euro 2008
Are you or your students following Euro 2008? If so, you should download the latest e-lesson from Macmillan, entitled ‘The football prima donnas’. It’s about football salaries – are they justified? To download the lesson, just visit the Macmillan business English
Digital literacies – NATESOL Manchester
It was great to meet everyone last weekend I will post up the workshop handout next week. In the meantime, here is the Word version of the Handout if anyone wishes to customise it. Do mail me with any suggestions
BESIG Business Issues
The Learning Technologies page The Learning Technologies page looks at a number of websites of interest to ESP practitioners. It then focus on ‘Business Meetings’, the latest disc in a series of business English CD-ROMs from York Associates International
The one-minute entrepreneur
Are your shelves groaning with unread management self-help books? Do you have a minute to download the latest e-lesson from Macmillan? Enjoy it – if you have time!
Electronic Dictionaries – review
Thanks to Guy Jackson for sending over this very interesting review of electronic dictionaries. The dictionaries reviewed here are CALD, Collins COBUILD, MED2, LDOCE and OAL Compass. The review appeared in Language Learning & Technology last Februray and is by Alfonso
Blended Learning course – Israel
It was great to do this course last week, and to meet the participants. If you wish to download the Universal podcast worksheet which was mentioned, just click on the link. Good luck to all participants and all success for
Lesson share
The latest business English e-lesson from Macmillan is now available. It is called ‘Boiler rooms’ and is about a share-buying scam. Enjoy!