Tweet There’s an interesting phenomenon which has been unfolding in the ELT world in the past few months, perhaps since the end of last year, and that is the rush of ‘bigger names’ (and you can measure that in any way you want) to enagage with their audiences by setting up websites, starting blogs and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘technology’
On Audiences…
Posted: 25th May 2009 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: Second Life Links, teaching, technology, Twitter
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Tweet My gob is smacked, it truly is… Because four times over the past six weeks I have been involved in discussions in which members of the ELT profession have expressed the view that technology somehow exerts an unexplained influence on teachers, turning them from caring professionals into dribbling idiots as they gaze upon the [...]
Macmillan Webinar
Posted: 8th April 2009 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: Macmillan, Pete, Sharma, technology, webinar
Tweet It’s a good move, and a timely move – Macmillan ELT have started a set of webinars with some of their stable of authors and collaborators and I’m currently sitting at home in Barcelona watching Pete Sharma in the UK casting a critical eye over technologies and language teaching. Pete’s doing fine and Macmillan [...]
Sunny Cyprus
Posted: 18th June 2008 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: Cyprus, ELT, teacher, technology, training, Work Links
Tweet I’m at the end of the second day of a four-day teacher training course here in Nicosia, working with a group of lively (they’ll know what I’m trying to say there, I think) teachers from all around the island. As is usual these days, the group is about 95% female, perhaps illustrating that while [...]
Modern Marketing
Posted: 16th November 2007 by Gavin Dudeney in GeneralTags: advertising, free, marketing, publicity, publishing, technology
Tweet My colleague and I are off to the UK on Sunday to spend the day on Monday doing some training for the language department of a large publishing company. We’re doing four sessions – three of them look at technology in teaching and training, the fourth looks at marketing and technology and that’s the [...]