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.
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
Macmillan's YouTube channel
Macmillan have started a youtube channel They will be adding videos from the IATEFL conference over the coming weeks. Video clips from various luminaries (Adrian Underhill, Scott Thornbury) have already been posted.
IATEFL conference, Exeter
Wow – just finishing the week at the IATEFL conference, where technology remains as vital and current an issue as ever….watch out for our next Newsletter which will include a conference report on the technology sessions!
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Using You.Tube in the classroom
Is You.Tube full of rubbish? full of interesting clips? Both? Jamie Keddie, a teacher trainer based in Spain, has recently set up http://www.teflclips.com/ – a site dedicated to the possibilities for using YouTube and other video sharing sites in the classroom.
First te4be Newsletter – Spring 2008
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Newsletter. The first edition went out yesterday. If you have subscribed, but think you have not received the e-mail with the link, please check your spam mail! Or just drop us a
Interactive phonetic chart
Macmillan have uploaded an interactive version the Phonetic chart onto the Books for Teacher’s resource site. This is a great development. Download it onto your computer and click to hear each of the phonemes, plus a word containing the sound. Many
te4be Newsletter
Many thanks to everyone who has subscribed to our latest venture – the te4be Newsletter. Barney and I are currently putting the first Edition together and will mail it out shortly. To receive this, just click on ‘Subscribe’ and you
RSS readers
It’s been a slow week here in Stratford so I’ve been installing RSS reader software on the student computers. My thinking is that, so often we ask our students to search the Web to find a story or text to