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It is impossible to forget the first moment of going on line, of connecting to the Internet. Like your first kiss, it stays with you forever. My first experience of surfing was at a teacher training workshop in Wolverhampton, with

Subscribers to Macmillan’s business English e-lesson have reached an amazing 94,000 worldwide! Many thanks to the great team behind the weekly lesson – Darina Richter for her editing, Barney Barrett for his content check, the web team at Macmillan for

The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced that {{link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4504256.stm podcasting}} is its Word of the Year.

Thanks to everyone who helped organise the session on the Internet in Vienna at the British Council on 26 November. As promised, here are some of the web sites suggested by participants: {{link http://www.handoutsonline.com/ Handouts on-line – subscription necessary}} {{link

During my BESIG presentation the subject of {{link http://www.wikipedia.com Wikipedia}} came up and it was agreed it is “a good thing”. Everybody said it is a great source of quick, clear information both for teachers working in ESP and for

This is a new addition and is a summary-at-a-glance of the main features of the CD-ROM dictionaries available from the main four publishers. At the moment the chart only covers advanced learner’s dictionaries. {{link https:/pages/mat4stud/cd/cd_dic_compare.htm Dictionary comparison chart}}

Thanks to English UK for organising this event. Also, thanks to all the participants who came to my session! As promised, here are some of the web-sites suggested in the session: {{link http://www.puzzlemaker.com Puzzlemaker}} {{link http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk The answer bank}} {{link

Here’s the links to the handouts for my presentation from the BESIG 2005 conference in Monaco. The handouts are currently available as Word documents. {{link https:/PDFs/Blog.doc Blogs}} {{link https:/PDFs/Searching.doc Searching}} They are also available as webpages. Visit the {{link https:/pages/mat4teach/handouts/handout_index.htm

Details of Pete’s forthcoming presentation in Vienna are now available on the TEA website. Visit:{{link http://www.tea-austria.org/events/innsbruck.htm Teachers of English in Austria}}

Thanks to Robert Young for his recent update of the ELTAS web site. He has put up photos of the “Controversies in Language Teaching” training day last month. Visit: {{link http://www.eltas.de/ ELTAS web site}}