Interesting videos to use in the classroom

The Economist offers short quality videos on a number of interesting topics such as economy, migrations, environmental issues, medicine, history… Very useful for classroom work.

Go to http://audiovideo.economist.com/ and follow the link to “videographics” in the left-hand menu.

Conference in 2010: Challenges in Languages for Specific Purposes

We are pleased to invite you to our LSP conference ‘Challenges in Languages for Specific Purposes’. It will be held on February 5 and 6 2010 at the Faculty of Administration, Ljubljana. The language of the conference is going to be Slovene. For more information, visit the conference page.

PBwiki becomes PBworks

When you visit your PBwiki account next time, you’ll notice it has got a new name: it has become PBworks. But don’t worry if you have a free account: your pbwikis are safe. You can learn more about the change here or here.

Hello wallstalking.org :-)

Started a graffiti project called Listen to the Walls Talking. Anyone interested is warmly invited to join in. The project site, wiki and Flickr group have recently come alive and graffiti started trickling in. Check it out here or here. Feel free to request access to the wiki to add your name, page, suggestions, whatever…

Teaching with TED

We’ve mentioned  TED Talks before, teachers enjoy using them in class,  the site is a goldmine of inspiration.  I now want to bring to your attention a lovely wiki by Jackie Gerstein titled Teaching with TED, which  pulls together ideas and resources for – teaching with TED. Truly wonderful.  Worth checking out. Heard about it via Larry Felazzo’s Websites of the Day…