I’ve read a couple of ‘what have you got on your iPad?’ type posts, so decided to join in with a post of my own, of the main screen of my iPad. If you’re interested in iPads in education, try the newly-created Ning, iPads in Education… So, from top to bottom, left to right, this [...]
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A post by Paul Maglione examines where ELT textbooks may be going in the not-too-distant future, with references to relevance, weight and other issues. In his post Paul links to another post by Graham Stanley in which, among other things, he talks of the wide availability of published material on illegal download sites. I’ve also [...]
Aside from my post reviewing some iPad apps I’m using a lot, and the one on getting audio into Keynote on the iPad (and on the joys of jailbreaking…), I keep coming across new things which I think someone else out there must be interested in, so here’s another short post with a couple of [...]
There was quite a bit of fuss earlier this week about the ‘fact’ that multitasking is impossible and destroys our attention and means we don’t actually do anything properly… even the claim that no significant learning can take place if people are not 100% concentrated on the teacher and/or material. Ironically, of course, much of [...]
I’ve just finished filling in the online registration form for the IATEFL Annual Conference 2011, to be held in Brighton. I’m going to do a talk on mLearning as this coincides nicely with a new book that Nicky Hockly and I are currently researching, and also with a new course (mLearning in Practice) which we’re [...]
Picture the scene… it’s about five years ago, pre-iPhone and iPad, pre-smartphone (more or less) and WiFi is still expensive in most places. You go into your local coffee chain on Sunday morning with your loved one or perhaps a group of friends, armed with the Sunday papers. Everyone pays an outrageous amount of money [...]
Just a short one… A few people seem to be having problems with embedded audio and video in Keynote on the iPad. The truth is that it’s not as advanced as it could be, and audio is a little tricky, video itself works fine. The trick is to prepare the presentation on the Mac and [...]
Having written more than enough about my love affair with my new iPad, I duly noted that the lack of multi-tasking was beginning to bore me, particularly as I was using the machine so much. And then I stopped and thought… now that jailbreaking is legal, and since my Ipad is only WiFi and not [...]
I’ve had the iPad for nearly three weeks now, and I’m having second thoughts, so I am… My second thoughts mainly revolve around the feeling of “Blimey, I quite liked it for the first few days, but now I love the thing“. Not in any sort of rude or unsavoury way, you understand, more in [...]
ELTAS Tech Tools Day Just got in from Stuttgart and the ELTAS Tech Tools Day yesterday. Stuttgart turns out to be a mostly very pretty city with some lovely squares and a very busy nightlife and it was good to see people out enjoying themselves last night in the centre… plenty of drinking, laughing and [...]
Actually, I’m a bit busy at the moment. Can I get back to you later, please?
When I looked at the programme for the IATEFL conference in Harrogate I was delighted to see just how many technology-related talks there were this year: over 50 out of a programme of around 400 talks. It seemed to me that technology had finally become manistream and that was a real pleasure for me. Apart [...]
Just back from a six day trip to Turkey. My Macbook crashed on the plane on the way home and seems to be irreparable without a reformat and reinstall. Have lost five days of email due to my fixation with using Outlook in Parallels on the Mac. If you’ve mailed me since last Friday morning, [...]
The British Council IATEFL Harrogate Online site is now open for business. Sign up free to join in with the discussions and watch live TV from the venue, as well as the usual mix of live plenaries, over forty recorded video sessions, the Pecha Kucha and more.
There’s a ridiculous posting over here in the Washington Post about college lecturers banning laptops in their classrooms. I haven’t got a lot of time to dissect the gross stupidity in this action, but here are a couple of points from the article: Georgetown had only recently begun requiring that first-year law students own laptops, [...]