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Upcoming presentation – HE staff engagement with digital tech
Hello, Just got news from the LLAS that my presentation proposal for the Edinburgh conference has been accepted. Couldn’t be happier! Now I’ve got to start collecting that data. The conference is...
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Session resources: ‘Working with Video in the Language Classroom’– 28th Feb 2012
Hello, On this page you will find all the resources you’ll need when attending the “Working with video in the Language Classroom” workshop on 28th February 2012, organised by FILTA and MMU. Working...
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Another reason to love Twitter
Being here and there at the same time. Today is Saturday. I’ve just been out to the buy some vegetables, had my shoes mended and I’m now doing the laundry. Oh, also, I’m attending a couple of...
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Great design for easy learning
Once in a while when using a device of some kind, you need to learn a new functionality. It was the case for me the other day when Apple updated the iPhone operating system iOS to version 5.1. Changes...
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iPad tip: how to store videos on an SD card
iPads tend to come with rather limited storage (16BG to 64GB) and Apple places strict restrictions limiting the use of external storage devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and hard drives. So what do...
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5 things I like about the vocab app Quizlet
For some time now we’ve been using a vocabulary-testing application on some of our French courses. It’s particularly useful for medical French courses, given the amount of terminology there is to...
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LLAS e-learning symposium 2013 pt1: A sense of community
I’ve just come back from attending the LLAS’ 8th e-learning symposium at the University of Southampton. I really enjoyed the event: the talks were great, full of ideas and directions to explore (the...
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Giving screencasting a thought
Following a session I gave on Friday on Using video in language teaching, I had an interesting conversation with some colleagues about screencasting. As most of you probably know, screencasting (which...
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Bring your own vocab’
Hi! – Thanks for reading! Apologies for being so quiet over the past few months. This first year in my new job (well, not so new anymore) has been keeping me very busy. That’s something I should...
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Talking about Quizlet at #LLASconf14
So the 7th LLAS biennal conference took place last week in Southampton, and just like last time it was a really good opportunity to meet people I knew and people I didn’t, all working in, near or...
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“You should blog about that”
That’s what someone said to me yesterday, and I think it’s very good advice. As you might have guessed from the small number of blog posts I’ve put out in the last couple of years, I can’t always think...
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Using DropBox ‘File request’ for collecting homework
I just started experimenting with this new way of digitally collecting homework from my students. It eases the collection process, saves on emails and file management, and, in a word, it saves me a...
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