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Blogs have come a long way since their origins as online journals. Today’s blogs can contain text, photographs, animations and links to other webpages. Pete’s future article in the EL Gazette will review some blogs in the field of English

What are the implications of adopting a Blended Learning approach for the Director of Studies and the management team of a school? A current buzz term in ELT is ‘Blended Learning’. The term has actually existed for some time, and

Blended Learning The most recent article on Blended Learning will be appearing in a forthcoming edition of the Guardian Weekly. Planned publication date is 16th February 2007.

Here are a couple of questions from the meta-plan board in my recent workshop in Hamburg. Q1.How can I set up my computer for online face-to-face learning? Hardware? (web-cam and ??) Software (what do you recommend?) What does it cost?

A big thanks to everyone who came to the presentations last weekend in Munich and Hamburg – braving the weather! Here are some of the web-site addresses which were suggested by participants at these sessions: Search engines {{link http://vivisimo.com/ Vivisimo}}

We have decided to introduce a podcast to te4be. This is an experiment and, to start with, we are following the traditional advice of keeping it simple. The podcast is about 3 minutes long and the file is just over

Information about our forthcoming book has been posted on the Macmillan website. Please visit: {{link http://www.macmillanenglish.com/default.aspx?id=3199 Blended Learning}} Happy reading!

From blogs to virtual learning environments and wikis, the range of technologies can be bewildering. Pete Sharma is here to help with explanations and suggestions about how you can use technology in the classroom. This is the start of an

There is a two-day seminar on technology coming up, organised by the Learning Technologies SIG. It will be held in Norwich (University of East Anglia), UK. Topics include: Interactive Whiteboards Podcasts and Vodcasts Computer-Mediated Communication Corpora Reading and Writing Online

Happy 2007! The BESIG Conference photos are now on the web. Visit: {{link http://www.besig.org/events/conf2006/index.htm BESIG photos}} There are some interesting photos of ELT luminaries with strange expressions. Pictures of Pete’s session are numbers 185-188! Enjoy!