Sophie as a name reminds me of the impressive character with the same name in William Styron’s novel Sophie’s Choice. I liked Meryl Streep playing her in the film too. However, from today on Sophie has a new association for me. It’s a piece of open software that helps to create interactive books. Watch the video below to learn more about it. It seems fun to use.
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Purdue University has recently launched a social networking application called Hotseat. It allows students to post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts or by logging in to their Hotseat website. These messages then serve as feedback during class. It is also said to give a voice to shy students and help teachers to adjust the course content. All in all it is believed to improve the experience for all.
However, after watching the video introducing Hotseat I’m not really sure this is the kind of class I’d like to teach. I’m not a fan of computer aided contact between teachers and students when they both share the same classroom. It seems ridiculous. See it for yourself. Would you like to teach with Hotseat running in the background?
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If you are thinking of doing MA or PhD studies , you can pick one of the programmes offered by the University of Manchester. Visit their Language teacher education blog . They may offer what you’re looking for.
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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.
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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.
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