I’m really excited to be giving the plenary at the forthcoming conference in Preston this June at the BESIG conference. The plenary, Business English in the digital age, offers a critical examination of what we teach and how we teach it.
The digital divide
One of the things that fascinates me is the way in which EFL teachers appear to be so divided on the subject of using learning technologies (LT). I’m more than a generation away from being a digital native or whatever
Blended Learning – Update 9 available now!
Delighted that the next update for Blended Learning is now available on the Macmillan Teacher’s Resource site. This free update is a bumper issue!!! ENJOY……….. CONTENTS The ninth update focuses on three developments in the area of business English the
Networking in English
Happy New Year! I’m really excited about being involved in a BESIG initiative – online professional development workshops that will take place on the first Sunday of each month throughout 2011. Details on the first one – about Networking in
CALL Review
I am enjoying a sneak preview of the latest CALL Review. It’s a bumper edition…. Funny that Russell Stannard writes about Jing, as just this week I downloaded the free version and am trying it out at home. There’s an
BESIG – interview
Thanks to Carl Dowse and the BESIG team for uploading my post-conference interview. Also to a fabulous interviewer, Andi White. You can watch the interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsjFLC_osho Or go to the BESIG YouTube channel and itself – you can also
YouTube in business
Apart from my own session on M Learning and the materials debate, I only managed to get to ONE session at the recent BESIG conference……luckily, it was Carl Dowse’s session on YouTube. Carl gave a p>Apart from my own session
BESIG Issues
Just writing up the PCE (pre-conference event) at the BESIG conference Bielefeld for inclusion in the Learning Technologies page for BESIG Issues. Reflecting back, it was a great experience. Here is a picture taken by the English360 team and included in
400 Activities for Interactive Whiteboards
We are absolutely delighted that the manuscript of our next ouevre has gone to the lay-out and design people. The book is a team effort consisting of four major strands, A-D. Barney is responsible for a lot of the ideas
Five seminal moments in the life of a presenter
To celebrate the latest e-lesson on Presentations, I thought I’d share five moments in my life as a presenter, moments which ‘kicked me upstairs’ in terms of my personal development as a trainer. In no particular order… 1.Plenary at LABCI-ABCI