Blended Learning – ELTJ
Monday, 19th July 2010Delighted that the next Key Concepts in ELT in the ELTJ is on Blended Learning. You can access this here: Blended Learning. Enjoy!
Archive for the ‘Blended Learning’ Category
Delighted that the next Key Concepts in ELT in the ELTJ is on Blended Learning. You can access this here: Blended Learning. Enjoy!
Music for podcasts
Sunday, 18th July 2010One of the most popular sessions on the PSA Blended Learning courses is on how to make your own podcasts. Recording and editing voice is straightforward. Adding music is also easy to learn. However, the question that arises with music is always the one of copyright. Most people know that if ...
Blended Learning – 8th update available
Tuesday, 4th May 2010We are delighted to say that the next update for Blended learning is now available This focuses firstly on M-Learning - mobile learning - and then provides a practical, step-by-step guide on how to upload videos to the popular website YouTube. To download your free .pdf of this 5-page update, please ...
Demystifying Digital – new course dates
Wednesday, 28th April 2010Please note that this course is now scheduled to run in Oxford on 25th - 26th September 2010.
Blended Learning – Madrid
Sunday, 11th April 2010Thanks to all the teachers who came to the session in Madrid at the Macmillan Teacher's day. It was great to be there! If you need anything from the talk, just drop me mail! Hope you had a good rest of the day....and apologies for Messi....:-)
Controversies in ELT – Maurice Claypole
Tuesday, 30th March 2010Review copy of Maurice's new book has just crossed my desk. No real question as to the two chapters I look forward to most: The best of both worlds (Implementing blended learning in ELT) Second Life comes of age (Teaching English in a virtual world) And the award for the chapter with the ...
English UK Management Conference 2010 – Reading
Sunday, 14th March 2010It was a great conference last weekend and the Garnet bash was beyond fabby. Fotos on Phacebook. Good to meet David Bish, who used our definition of Blended learning in his ef presentation - getting Blended Teaching from Blended Learning. David wrote the review for CD-ROM: A Teacher's Handbook, several light ...
Pete on Second Life
Friday, 12th March 2010Earlier this week a Czech student asked Pete Sharma about traditional education, new super learning and nonsense textbooks during a chat with Pete Sharma in Languagelab.com. Watch the video to hear his answer.
Blended Learning – Update 7
Friday, 4th December 2009Heard about Wordle? What about TED.com? We are delighted that the latest (free!) update - Blended Learning Update number 7 - is ready to download as a .pdf from the Macmillan website! Enjoy it!
Blended Learning Course – 19th – 20th December
Monday, 30th November 2009What is the difference between Moodle, the Macmillan English Campus, MyLab and English 360? Have you ever tried a Mimio? There are still a few spaces left on the last Blended Learning course of 2009 next month in Stratford - mail PSA immediately if you are interested............ www.psa.eu.com
PSA Blended Learning course in Italy
Monday, 16th November 2009A short note to say thank you to everyone who attended the PSA Blended Learning course at The London School in Thiene in Italy last weekend and, of course, a special thanks to Julie for organising it. We had a great time and were challenged by a dynamic group of ...
te4be Newsletter winter 2009 – out now
Monday, 16th November 2009Our latest newsletter is now available for subscribers to te4be to download. It contains articles about Pete's trips to south America and what he found out about how they are using technology in their classrooms. There are also up-dates on the progress of Pete Sharma Associates. If you would like to ...
Pete at MEXTESOL
Thursday, 22nd October 2009Pete is delivering keynotes speeches at MEXTESOL today and tomorrow. [caption id="attachment_723" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Pete's image waiting to greet delegates at MEXTESOL"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_722" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Click for a larger version"][/caption] Come back soon for more information.
Technology sessions – Peru
Monday, 5th October 2009It was great to deliver talks and workshops last week in Lima. Thanks to everyone who came along to the plenary talk: Technology - the great debate. Click to download a graphics-lite version of the PowerPoint Click to download a Word version of the References Also to everyone who attended the workshop on: Technology ...
Interactive whiteboards and learning curves
Saturday, 26th September 2009So, interactive whiteboards!! This is a subject that both Pete and I have brought up on this blog and is an important element in both the Blended Learning book and PSA's Blended Learning training weekends. In fact, even as I sit here typing this, Pete is across the corridor leading a ...
Blended Learning – update 6
Thursday, 25th June 2009The latest update to our book has just been uploaded to the Macmillan website. It looks at the mimio, New Inside Out Digital and the new on-line Macmillan English Dictionary. Enjoy - it is completely free to download!
Barcelona……..and Blended Learning
Thursday, 4th June 2009I am Barcelona, enjoying this wonderful city.. Thanks to Macmillan for organising such a wonderful event yesterday - it was great to see so many teachers with a copy of ...our book!! Here is a 'lite' version of the Power Point - it is 'stripped' of a few photos just to make ...
Second Blended Learning course – Stratford June 27th-28th
Tuesday, 2nd June 2009There are still places on the second Blended Learning course in Stratford. Visit www.psa.eu.com to request a booking form... Just received the I-Pak from OUP. Still awaiting Longman software, Total English. New Inside Out Digital coming out this month from Macmillan. We already have the full range of face2face from CUP...So, ...
Review of Blended Learning
Tuesday, 19th May 2009Just found the following review in Language Learning and Technology, February 2009.
BAISC conference, Daventry UK
Sunday, 17th May 2009Thanks to everyone who attended the session last weekend on new technologies and pedagogies in language teaching at the BAISC conference last weekend. Here are the Power points: Pedagogies for the digital age Focus on three technologies I look forward to meeting any conference participants again .... perhaps on future PSA courses later this year!