It was a great conference in Salford yesterday! I really enjoyed the three elective sessions I attended. RICHARD GRESSWELL showed us some impressive videos made by his ESOL students. He spoke about his new video-sharing site: http://web2literacy.com/2011/05/10/a-video-sharing-community-web2english/ JESSICA FRYE showed
Free glossary for 400 Ideas for Interactive whiteboards
Yikes – just visited the Mac site (as you do) and discovered that our Glossary of tech terms is up there! The site with info on the book is: Macmillan English The 2-page Glossary of terms (like audacity, infinite cloner,
NATESOL Manchester – technology track
oooooooo – just discovered there’s a ‘Technology’ track at this weekend’s NATESOL conference in Salford. In Session 1, RICHARD GRESSWELL is looking at making and sharing video clips by young adult ESOL learners In Session 2, JESSICA FRYE is looking
EAQUALS Conference (Prague): plenary / workshop summaries
The plenary and workshop summaries from many of the sessions at April’s EAQUALS Conference in Prague have been posted on the EAQUALS website, including: Plenary: enhancing classroom language learning through technology (Pete Sharma) Pete’s Technology Workshop: PPT also posted on-line
Macmillan Dictionary Blog
The final week of Business English month on the Macmillan Dictionary blog starts with a guest post by Pete Sharma aka moi, which starts: I was delighted to be asked to deliver the opening plenary at the BESIG (Business English
BESIG Issues Summer 2011 Issue 78
I was leafing through my copy of ‘Throw Off Your Clothes And Live’. I buy it for the chess problem … … Sorry, with apologies to Kenneth Horne, I’ll start that blog post again I was leafing through my copy
Symposium – Madrid: ¿un nuevo amanacer?
A few photographs of our great day last week in Madrid! Opened by the Director of the Department of Trade & Investment……what a venue….!
Symposium – Madrid
What a fantastic symposium in Madrid! Huge thanks to our wonderful sponsors (Hitachi and Macmillan Spain) and our hosts. The venue – the 41st floor, British Embassy – was spectacular. Over the next few days, we will post photos of
Woo hoo……..400 Ideas ‘flies off the shelves’…….
I just popped up to the new Macmillan author blog… nice to read the following entry from Sarah about IATEFL Brighton (please forgive bolding of key words): There was a huge buzz on the Macmillan stand about Jim Scrivener’s 3rd
Turning blended learning around – by 360 degrees?
Pete Sharma examines a new platform for producing top-notch web-driven business English programmes. Many business English providers believe that ‘blended learning’, combining face-to-face teaching with online support, is best. But creating such a course is far from easy. What happens