The new Longman Business English Dictionary contains a CD-ROM. The disc includes British and American pronunciation, and exam practice for BEC and BULATS. We will be reviewing this disc in due course – watch this space!
Education in Second Life
There is currently a lively discussion about Web 2.0 and Second Life going on at the Learning Technologies forum. A useful link for some brief, general comments on education in Second Life (including language learning) is the Virtual Worlds page
Podcast for students: Blended Learning
We are delighted to announce that, after the success of our first podcast on ‘Second Life’, we have just uploaded our second podcast for language learners- on Blended Learning. To access the podcast, the student worksheet and the transcript, simply
ESP Conference – Ulm – September
There will be an ESP conference in Ulm, Germany, 22 September 200 at the Hochschule Ulm. Among the presentations on various aspects of teaching English for Special Purposes will be Pete’s workshop on technology in ESP. The organisers are Paul
IH Country Fair – Seville
Last weekend saw the first of a series of Campus Training events. This was in Seville. For the Campus blog entry on this event, and a photo of participants, please visit: {{link http://www.connect2mec.com/ MEC Blog}} Blogs linking to blogs! Happy
Searching the BBC Learning English website
I have just introduced a learner to the BBC World Service’s much loved and visited Learning English website. We were looking at the Words in the News section. Three times a week the BBC people add a report from the
Macmillan English Campus Blog
Today sees the launch of the Macmillan English Campus blog. There are now around 75,000 MEC users around the world – and that number is increasing. You can read the blog at: {{link http://www.connect2mec.com/ MEC Blog}} Thanks to MEC for
Blended Learning podcast
In order to demonstrate the ease with which podcasts can be made, we recorded our IATEFL presentation. The second part of the presentation, in which Pete presents our rationale for Blended Learning, is now available to download and listen to.
IATEFL handout now available
If you would like a copy of our presentation handout from the IATEFL conference (because you’ve heard great things about it or because you were there but lost your copy), just click on the link below to download it. Using
Request for IATEFL photos, feedback and questions
Does anyone have any photos of Pete or me at IATEFL. They could be us individually or together, presenting or chatting. If you do and can email one or two to us, we would be really grateful, post them here