I really enjoyed coming back to Luxemburg many (many!) years after staying here as a callow youth (when I dimly recall an auberge de jeunesse…). Thanks to all the teachers who attended the keynote talk. This is the place to pick up the various Handouts as follows:

A 14-page .pdf (lite) version of the PPT

Plenary-lite

The references and useful websites (2-pages)

References

The Framework (1-page) for setting up Blended courses

A checklist for successfully implementing Blended Learning

Congratulations to the organisers and a special ‘thank-you’ to OUP for sponsoring this Keynote and the workshop which followed. Enjoy!

Delighted to be attending the ELTAF conference in Frankfurt this weekend.

Should be great to catch up with ELT colleagues. Many thanks to OUP for sponsoring my workshop on Empowering students through using an online platform.

Here is the 12-page .pdf based on my PPT presentation:

Empowering your Sts_lite

What a fantastic weekend! I really enjoyed going over to Dublin to deliver a workshop on my latest book as co-author –  Best Practices for Blended Learning!

As promised, here’s copy of the Framework to enable schools to plan out a Blended Course:

Template_Sharma_Dublin

Here’s an 11-page .pdf of the PowerPoint presentation

Best practices for Blended Learning-lite

Thanks to everyone who came on the day and thanks to Pavilion for sponsoring me.

Enjoy!

It was great to be back in Barcelona and to deliver this workshop for the LT SIG at the IH Barcelona conference last weekend.

Here, as promised, is the 10-page .pdf version of my PPT.

VR_lite

A fabulous event on the professional and social level too!

If anyone wants to share practical ideas on using VR in the classroom – please drop me a mail!

Video lectures as a means of improving the teaching/ learning of phonetics at a Moroccan university

“Flipped Phonetics” is an innovative method we adopted in teaching introductory phonetics, a component of a Semester 4 linguistics module- Introduction to Linguistics- offered to undergraduate students of the Department of English at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences- Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

So begins the latest Case Study on Blended Learning. Many thanks to Karim Bensoukas for this fascinating contribution.

To download your free .pdf, please visit:

https://www.etprofessional.com/best-practices-for-blended-learning

Great memories of the conference in Morocco where I met Karim, the ​MATE Laayoune 1st International ELT Conference.

Participants were given this definition of Blended Learning: a combination of traditional face-to-face classroom teaching and web-based learning. They were asked the following question:

Which learning platform do you use for the web-based delivery?

Find out what the data showed. Download a one-page .pdf with the results:

IATEFL – data follow up

Any surprises? We were amazed at the range of different platforms being used. And pleased, as this variance is another justification for writing our new book!

To buy the book, visit:

Pavilion website

Thanks to all the wonderful people who came to our presentation yesterday in Brighton. It was great to launch our new book.

Here are the References for the session:

IATEFL – References

Here is a 6-page .pdf of the PowerPoint

IATEFL presentation_lite

We hope you enjoyed the presentation as much as we loved giving it!

If you have any further questions, please use the Contact page on this website.

Quite an amazing experience – working alongside true professional Andy Cowle to deliver a joint plenary at this key conference. Unique photos above show a blended selfie…. participants holding up a white piece of paper if they use interactive whiteboards in their teaching contexts…the dynamic duo in action (aka the gruesome twosome) …and finally – the kit I had at home! Facebook stream, Twitter stream and two computers logged into Cisco WebEx…

Huge thanks – especially to Richmond and the British Council…to everyone who came, and, of course, to Andy

Here is a 14-page .pdf of the plenary itself – Plenary talk – lite

Confession one: I haven’t posted in a while. Excuse: I’ve been teaching on the pre-sessionals at Warwick University

Confession two: I’ve been to Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela……but I haven’t been to Colombia!

That’s about to change….as a Spanish speaker, you can imagine how much I’m looking forward to the following event later this month – The Forum on the Future of the ELT profession.

For more details of this exciting event, zap over to the following website: http://www.thefutureelt.com/

If you are going, I’ll see you there! Many thanks to Richmond for sponsoring this visit……