Just a quick heads-up to start the week…Macmillan Education is running a sale on all their mobile apps this week. This includes the premium version of the excellent Sounds app, all 5 IELTS Skills apps, and the Macmillan Diccionario Pocket. Apple and Android versions are
IWB Debate result – a close C.A.L.L.!
Wow – great debate this afternoon……despite my losing audio. By engaging in such debate, we move forward! More to follow on the LT-SIG Yahoo Group Forum……
McGraw-Hill announces launch of the SmartBook
Investor company Apollo’s recent $2.5bn investment in McGraw-Hill Education is starting to bear fruit. At the International Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas this month, McGraw-Hill Education gambled on the launch of suite of adaptive learning products for higher education; most interesting among
Enter the Doki…an app that uses a games-like approach to great effect
One of the interesting developments in the past couple of years has been the proliferation of apps for language learning, and it seems everyone is getting in on the act. We have peripheral products, such as OUP’s rather over-priced and
Society of authors: talk and handout
Pete’s talk for the Society of Authors, London It was a great pleasure to go down to London last month and deliver a talk for the Society of authors. The talk was entitled: Challenge and Change in Educational Publishing. The
Here comes India’s Aakash…so what’s you’re mobile learning strategy now?
So you’re happy with your iPad? Of course you are. It’s sleek, fashionable and sexy. OK, it has a few irritating niggles. For example, it won’t handle Flash. There’s nowhere to upload files via a USB port, and attaching peripherals
BESIG Stuttgart – Shift Yourself!
Just back from Stuttgart. Another year, another BESIG behind us. Next year’s venue is a closely guarded secret, but for 2012 Stuttgart treated us to two days of unseasonably sunny weather, and the conference was the biggest ever – around
BESIG or TESOL? A fun weekend, either way!
TEFL-ers have a terrible choice to make this week. Do they go to Paris for TESOL, or Stuttgart for BESIG? Stuttgart weather over the weekend is sunny on Saturday and cloudy Sunday, with an average temperature of 11 degrees. Much the same
Gothic Goings-On in Digital ELT
One the great things about digital resources is how easily and quickly they can be adapted to real-time events. This is great for teacher and student alike – rather than plough on with the same old content, suddenly you can
All the Fun of the (Frankfurt) Fair
Another year, another Frankfurt. How much has changed. How little has changed. Strolling around the various booths in Hall 8, I was struck by how much lip service is paid to digital products, but how little is actually happening, though