Pete Sharma Associates

The latest edition of “Humanising Language Teaching” is available on the Internet.(Year 7; Issue 4; July 05)

It carries the following article. {{link http://www.hltmag.co.uk/jul05/sart07.htm Seminal moments in the life of a “techie” trainer:Reflections on personal development}}

Thanks to Mario Rinvolucri for asking me to contribute this short article. I hope you enjoy it!

David Smith and Eric Baber’s new book “Teaching English with Information Technology” has just come out. The publisher’s web-site is: {{link http://www.ModernEnglishPublishing.com Modern English Publishing}}

Thanks to the authors for the kind reference to the CD-ROM Teacher’s Handbook. There should be a review forthcoming, in the Reviews in brief column in the EL Gazette.

A great conference last weekend! Keep an eye on this site for event photos – coming soon!

Stop press!! It has just been confirmed that I will be doing a presentation for Macmillan on the English Campus at the TESOL conference in Rome. The date? Friday 23 September.

Further details shortly.

VERY much looking forward to visiting Italia……..if you are a Business English e-lesson subscriber, maybe see you at the talk?

This is a subject that has bubbled away almost since the Web was born. This piece by Raphael Behr in today’s Observer newspaper called {{link http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1567143,00.html?gusrc=rss Access Denied}} gives a good summary of the issues although, in light of current discussions in government circles around the world about monitoring Internet use for all of us whether we are good or bad, he is ultimately pessimistic.

Issue 3 / 2005 of BESIG Issues has just been published. The CD-ROM / Internet page looks at Macmillan’s English Campus and a range of new CD-ROMs for business English.

Congratulations to Oleg Tarnopolsky on another great “issue” (pun intended).

Don’t forget to check out the {{link http://www.besig.org BESIG website}} for more on the forthcoming BESIG conference in Monaco! Barney and I both hope to see you there!