We write and run courses and conferences worldwide on integrating educational technology into language courses, and advise institutions on learning technology.
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Our latest podcast is out, where we talk with Ruth Pringle about language teachers cooperating and working together. Twitter pathetically thinks my web site link is potentially harmful, so try psadoteudotcom/episode-25 !
📣 New Podcast! "Episode 25" on @Spreaker #cooperation #language #professionaldevelopment #teaching spreaker.com/user/languagese…
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Um, hey @britishmuseum, it's come to my attention that your exhibit "China's hidden century" uses my translations of Qiu Jin's poetry, but you never contacted me for permission. Please note this is a copyright infringement! How are you going to fix this?? #NameTheTranslator
Episode 23 - psa.eu.com/episode-23/An episode on the difficult area of teaching listening with guest Anthony Green. This is definitely a subject we are going to follow-up on!
My apologies to anyone who noticed a whole stream of notifications from the web site. I was going through broken links and updating the pages seems to have triggered these tweets!
CD-ROM dictionaries to go "headword to headword" - psa.eu.com/cd-rom-dictionari… the teaching centre where I work, I have installed all the current CD-ROM versions of the advanced learner's dictionaries from the main publishers on computers in the self-access room as well as in the ...
CD-ROM dictionaries to go "headword to headword" - psa.eu.com/cd-rom-dictionari… the teaching centre where I work, I have installed all the current CD-ROM versions of the advanced learner's dictionaries from the main publisherson computers in the self-access room as well as in the t...
Macmillan English Dictionary: on-line questionnaire - psa.eu.com/macmillan-english… you may know, Macmillan are asking for views on the MED, the Macmillan English Dictionary. If you – or your students - would like to participate, it will take 10 minutes or so. Those answering the on...
English Teaching Matters - psa.eu.com/english-teaching-… latest "English Teaching Matters" journal has just come out (Summer 2005). Many thanks to the Editor-in-Chief, Karen Richardson, and the team for including a short promotional article: "A new web-site for language teachers" - ...
Newsmap - psa.eu.com/newsmap/Newsmap takes its data from Google News to produce a graphic representation of the latest news stories. It can be set to display the results from the various international versions of Google News, eg US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, India etc., and use...
Business Listening on the Web - psa.eu.com/business-listenin… have put up a list of links in the Materials section to websites around the world which provide radio business news reports. This was originally published in the BESIG newsletter a year or so ago. I have up-dated a couple...
IATEFL Chile - Santiago: plenary sessions - psa.eu.com/iatefl-chile-sant… I'm back from Santiago with a ton of great memories........
As promised at the IATEFL conference, here's a lite version of the plenary as an eight-page .pdf
plenarylite
Also, a list of references
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Revisiting 'Cost cutting': an e-lesson for recessionary times - psa.eu.com/revisiting-cost-c… Business English e-lesson on cost-cutting is available from the e-lesson warehouse.
It is accompanied by a NEW blog entry which indicates that, as people everywhere continue to struggle ...
International Teacher Development Institute - act now! - psa.eu.com/international-tea… quick update for all our happy readers from the International Teacher Development Institute, the new teacher training service that provides a range of extremely cost-effective, online –only profes...
Euro 2008 - psa.eu.com/euro-2008/Are you or your students following Euro 2008? If so, you should download the latest e-lesson from Macmillan, entitled 'The football prima donnas'.
It's about football salaries - are they justified? To download the lesson, just visit the Macmi...
English UK Teachers' Conference - psa.eu.com/english-uk-teache… thanks to everyone who came to my sessions in London last Saturday.
As promised, here is a brief, follow-up Handout for the M-Learning session: Mobile learning
Watch this space - I will be gleaning more practical ...
Business English materials in the digital age: what's new? - psa.eu.com/business-english-… Bielefeld - PCE
I have long been fascinated by business English teaching materials - authentic, framework, published, digital; even the absence of materials..... for many years, I taught wi...
World of Work - online Virtual Conference - Cambridge ESOL - psa.eu.com/world-of-work-onl… 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, v...
Cambridge World of Work Virtual conference - 12th May - psa.eu.com/986/Next Wednesday's World of Work virtual conference schedule is as follows:
The impact of new technology on language teaching, learning and assessment - Pete Sharma
An observer’s reflection of the ...
Marjorie Scardino - laughing all the way to the online bank - psa.eu.com/2838/Very interesting news from Pearson this week. Pre-tax profits were up 72%, to $1.8 bn, chiefly due to the increase in digital revenues, which increased by 18% in headline terms to £2bn. This means...