In recent months, I’ve been trying to come up with ways of putting learners’ smartphones to good use in the classroom and converting a possible distraction into something that supports their learning. One important lesson I’ve learnt from this is that playing to their devices’ strengths by making things quick ‘n’ easy is what usually […]
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Apps are here to stay
This post is based on an article published in Business Issues, the IATEFL BESIG Newsletter, Summer 2013, Issue 84, and is reproduced with the kind permission of the Editor, Julia Waldner. The success of the Collins Business English: Listening app in winning the 2012 David Riley Award for Innovation in Business and ESP sponsored by […]
Moderating the Cert IBET
My first contact with the Consultants-E (TCE) was in 2006 when I took a course which subsequently evolved into the now defunct Trinity validated Cert ICT course. Like many others at the time, I was soon hooked on online training and took a succession of other courses with TCE. Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney, the […]
