The latest CALL Newsletter has just been uploaded to the Learning Technologies SIG website. It’s a cracking issue, even though I say so myself (showing editorial unbias) with articles on: Second Life / InfoQuests / video and new media / YouTube
Have you been Facebooked recently?
The latest business English e-lesson from Macmillan is on social networking and business etiquette: what do you do if your boss invites you to join his or her Facebook site? Download the lesson now – unless you want me to
New Pecha Kucha website
Lindsay Clanfield has just started a new website dedicated to this style of presentation. Worth a visit if you didn’t see the exhilarating event at this year’s IATEFL conference in Exeter. You now have just six minutes and 40 seconds
Early bird – Blended Learning course, Markdorf
There’s still time to benefit from the early bird registration fee for the next Blended Learning course!
Latest Interactive Whiteboards
This week, the Guardian’s technology in teaching supplement, The Link, included some very enthusiastic reviews of the newest interactive whiteboards and software from Hitachi, Promethean and Smart.
Technology workshop – 29th April, Oxford
Hi to everyone from Turkey who attended last week’s session on technolgy in Oxford. The web-sites suggsted by participants included many favourites, such as Google, OneStopEnglish, the BBC, British Council etc. Also, some interesting sites which I have put on
Blended Learning – Ireland
Thanks to everyone who came to the sessions in Cork and Dublin! Many of the web-sites suggested were well-known sites such as the BBC, the search engine Google, and ELT publishers sites like OneStopEnglish. Here is a handout with some
Pecha Kucha
The lastest e-lesson looks at a phenomenon from the world of presentations – 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. To download the free lesson, vist the Macmillan business website. For more on the Petra Kucha evening at IATEFL, Exeter, see
Webucation: Berlin workshop (Hueber)
Thanks to all who cam to the session last Friday in Berlin. Here is the link to download a list of useful websites. Here is the link to download the handouts – Conditional conundrum and Dictionary Comparision. Many of the sites on
Review heaven
Sometimes life as a reviewer is heaven. Each day, the postman brings more books. The latest book I am looking at is in the Macmillan Vocabulary Practice Series and is called Science. It contains a word mapping tool for every