Pete Sharma Associates

How do you store the new words and phrases you meet on your language course? Many students write down their new words in a notebook, along with a  translation. However, it can be difficult to find the words you record like this, in order to review them. Have you thought about how technology can help? This blog post looks at some of the exciting ways in which language learners can store their new words electronically.

For the rest of this post, please visit: http://blog.linguarama.com/post/2012/01/06/Learning-New-Words-Electronically.aspx 

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 article from another colleague at Warwick, Duncan Hunter on exploiting corpora.

Fellow PSA Director Kevin Westbrooks has written the first of three articles looking at the digital divide.

You can check out my review of the magnum opus, the Handbook of Web 2.0 Research and Second Language Learning

All this and much more! Impressively laid out by Maurice Claypole….banish the blues and thse bitterly cold flight delays with some engaging reading matter, coming to the IATEFL Learning Tech website near you….

The latest CALL Review has just been uploaded to the IATEFL learning technologies SIG website.

It has an article from PSA Director, Byron Russell and the creator of this very site, Barney Barrett. Here are the contents:

• Now for something completely different: EFL publishers in a digital age – Byron Russell
• Towards a 360° view of content creation – Valentina Dodge
• A Multi-level Blended Approach to ESP and CLIL – Maurice Claypole
• Intensifying intrinsic motivation using CD-ROM – Marie Cosgrove
• Word clouds: using Wordle in language teaching – Barney Barrett
• Using Facebook to improve students’ writing – Luke Fletcher
• Tips for the on-line conference moderator – Nicky Hockly

Enjoy!!

I am currently editing the Winter 2009 – 2010 CALL Review. It’s a cracking edition!

PSA’s very own Byron Russell kicks off with a look at the future for ELT publishers. Valentina Dodge has contributed an exhilarating article on English 360. Maurice Claypole has sunmitted a fascinating article of particular interest to ESP and CLIL teachers. Then there’s Wordle…Facebook….and much more…..

Will you read it? It’s as easy as ABC – it will soon be available to download from the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG website. Not a SIG member? now that’s a different story….I guess you could, er, borrow a pals…? Beg, steal or borrow a virtual copy? Or, simply, eat your heart out and, er, join IATEFL

I am delighted to say that the latest CALL Review is now available on the IATEFL website. It includes the following articles:

The future has arrived: a new era in electronic dictionaries – Michael Rundell

Blended Learning and Current Thinking in TEFL – Simon Buckland

Tweeting in a language teaching and learning environment – Mercedes Castro

Where Daleks fear to tread – Maurice Claypole

The Skype’s the limit! Practical uses of Skype in the classroom – Richard Turnbull

A Wireless Ready report – Gary Motteram and Pete Sharma

The LEAP – Tim Kelly

Enjoy!

The latest CALL Newsletter has just been uploaded to the Learning Technologies SIG website.

It’s a cracking issue, even though I say so myself (showing editorial unbias) with articles on: Second Life / InfoQuests / video and new media / YouTube / Camtasia / wikis, an interview and book review…

Enjoy!

 I am exploring a desk-top publishing package from Serif in preparation for editing the next CALL Newsletter.

So, please send your articles, book reviews, hardware and software reviews, interviews, conference reports, letters, announcements, advertisements, opinions, to me at: pete.sharma@ btopenworld. com

Please send your contributions by Word attachment and follow the guidelines on the inside cover of the last edition of CALL Review.

The latest Newsletter (Winter 2007) of the CALL Review is available to SIG members as a pdf from the website.

Articles include: Moodle, Interactive whiteboards, and Gary Motteram’s report on last month’s LT SIG / British Council event, Milan (including a summary of Pete’s plenary).

Visit: IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG

Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou has just posted a message which says:

“materials from [the] recent event on Interactive Whiteboards are now available in [the] members-only area” of the LT website.

To follow shortly - ”the new issue of the CALL Review and soon the materials from Milan will be available”

Happy reading! I look forward to starting work on the first Newsletter of 2008.

I am delighted to be joining the committee of the Learning Technologies SIG and will take over editing the newsletter from January 2008.

I am really looking forward to this challenging new position.