If you’ve been to the homepage of psa.eu.com in the last 24 hours, you’ll have noticed the addition of a box on the left supplying a steady stream of Pete’s Twittered thoughts. Pete will be blogging and Twittering more abotu
Wordle again
A slow day at Stratford resulted in everyone playing around with Wordle. Here’s a great idea that came from Mark: At the end of a lesson with – especially – lower level learners, grab a couple of sentences from the
Learning Technologies Page – Business Issues
The Learning Technologies page looks at using Wordle in the business English classroom. It then focuses on a new development in the world of electronic dictionaries and concludes with a few lines on digital materials. To read the rest of
An interview with Pete Sharma
Many thanks to Janine Bray-MĆ¼ller for her great interview questions afterĀ my recentĀ Hamburg presentation. The completeĀ interview can be viewed on line. Sharma comes clean about a ton of stuff….happy reading!
Business crime
The latest business English e-lesson has just been sent out by Macmillan. The topic? Fraud….tapping phone-lines…..fiddling expenses…it would be a crime to miss it!
Article in the Guardian Weekly
The Interactive whiteboard in language teaching Pete Sharma Nothing symbolises the ādigital divideā quite as much as the interactive whiteboard, or IWB. The divide is not just a gulf between the āhavesā and the āhave notsā; it is an ideological
Blended Learning – update 6
The latest update to our book has just been uploaded to the Macmillan website. It looks at the mimio, New Inside Out Digital and the new on-line Macmillan English Dictionary. Enjoy – it is completely free to download!
Coffee in Second Life
Thanks to everyone who joined me for a coffee in SL. Also to Nik, the interviewer (aka the host with the most). Thoroughly enjoyable, as was my post interview curry.
Something extra from TED.com
I wrote about TED.com, in an earlier post which you can read here. This website, which contains a huge archive of presentations from luminaries and experts in a variety of fields, has added someting which will make it even more
"The times, they are a-changin’….."
Using interactive whiteboards in the language classroom Pete Sharma In some countries, no child can go through the state education system without being taught by teachers who have access to an interactive whiteboard (IWB); in others, using an IWB is