BESIG Rome
Thursday, 24th June 2010Here is a graphics-lite version of the PowerPoint for the session: Networking in English at the BESIG summer conference in Rome.
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Here is a graphics-lite version of the PowerPoint for the session: Networking in English at the BESIG summer conference in Rome.
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....:-)
World of Work – online Virtual Conference – Cambridge ESOL
Friday, 26th March 2010The World of Work unit of Cambridge ESOL are holding an online Virtual Conference on May 13th 2010. Pete will be giving an introductory as a member of the panel. For more on this exciting event, visit: Cambridge ESOL. The theme of the event is ' Perspectives on Technology : Workplace English Teaching, Learning ...
The trials and sorrows of an IATEFL conference goer……
Thursday, 25th March 2010How does anybody ever choose anything to go to at an IATEFL conference? I'm only there for ONE day and already there are too many choices. Only schizophrenics need apply. Session one -should I go to: Teaching the mobile generation - Nicky Hockly (The Consultants-E & Pearson Longman) - iPods, MP3 ...
Madrid
Monday, 22nd March 2010Looking forward to the Teacher's conference in Madrid. I started teaching there nearly 30 years ago!!!! Just about to do the next update for Blended Learning - my bit's on M-Learning. Easter then the Learning Technology committee meeting at IATEFL, Harrogate. It's all go...:-)
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.
BESIG and more…..
Monday, 15th February 2010Nice 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 ...
ETAS – Biel / Bienne
Monday, 8th February 2010Thanks to vereyone who came to my session! I really enjoyed it. I have put together a one-page Handout with the web-site adresses which came up in the session - enjoy! If you need any other references, please just mail me! Best wishes from Pete
BESIG, Poznan – reflecting back
Tuesday, 22nd December 2009Huge thanks to Carl Dowse for his recent posting on BESIG. You can see the recording of the panel discussion on the future of language learning, which inspired the business English e-lesson of 2009. There's a ton of great photos up there. One of my favourite conferences - why was it so ...