Pete Sharma Associates

Happy New Year!

I’m really excited about being involved in a BESIG initiative – online professional development workshops that will take place on the first Sunday of each month throughout 2011.

Details on the first one – about Networking in English – can be found on the BESIG website. Thanks to Carl and the BESIG online team for what promises to be an interesting and stimulating series of events!

Delighted to be interviewed shortly in Second Life.

When? Monday March 8th 6.30pm (GMT)

Click on the picture to see details.

More details (SLURL) to follow……

Nice to be invited to do sessions at the BESIG pre-conference event in Bielefeld later this year.

Just got my copy of the latest BESIG Issues and immediately thumbed to the Learning Technologies page by Barney and myself, as you do. It’s on Business Result Elementary CD-ROM (OUP) and outlines Barney’s first Truman-like steps into the dizzy world of interactive whiteboards…..

Carl Dowse has been updating the BESIG website. Nice. There’s a new Newsletter page and on it, you can now get a back issue of one of our Learning Technologies pages.

In the meantime, Macmillan have recently uploaded the latest business English e-lesson on the iPad. So, print and go! We have just heard from Macmillan that Networking is moving off the shelves faster than Usain Bolt-lightning, so we are well pleased tonight……yippee. Thanks to anyone who has bought it. Looking forward to giving the first presentation on it this weekend in Cologne. Hope my socialising skills are up to it.

You may notice that our website is changing – FAST!

Carousel: Barney has been playing around with a ‘carousel’ for displaying photos. Please visit our Photo Gallery and click on the latest photo from Oman to see the results of his Herculean labours.

More links: We are now posting up Links – click on Blogs to visit the latest award-winning blog supporting Global.

Networking  in English: if you don’t know what’s in our fabby new book, just click here – Networking in English

Student area: There is now a STUDENT AREA. Send your students there to use the Macmillan Online Dictionary, get the URL for the free downloadable version of Adrian Underhill’s Phonemic chart and other stuff which will help them in their learning of English…. To access this area, simply ask your students to go to the Materials for learning page and then click on the blue button. We have just posted a graphics-lite version of Pete’s presentation at Oxford Brookes to students on the Guided Lecture program: Technology and language learning. Enjoy.

Understandably excited about the arrival of our latest book – Networking in English – we have made a video of Pete explaining the benefits and the thinking behind the syllabus.

If you haven’t already seen it head straight for the homepage of te4be and take a look.

The 3D version will be available as soon as James Cameron calls us from Hollywood!

Our latest book will soon be in a shop near you.

For more information, please visit the Macmillan website.

If you can’t wait until your local book seller can provide you with a copy, you can also pre-order from Amazon.

Enjoy it!!