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Tuesday, 30th June (Cambridge)
This will be the last ‘Free Resources’ message until Tuesday 28th July, by which time (Cross fingers crossed) we will have installed a new boiler in Boba’s Zagreb flat, not (Cross fingers still crossed) had to fish Mateo out of … Continue reading
Thursday, 18th June (Cambridge)
1. it’s probably fair to say that the world of assessment and testing is in ferment at present. Just in case your experience of taking exams is as out-of-date as mine is, here’s advice from Duolingo (ear scanning included!), How … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 16th June (Cambridge)
1. Global Englishes: Research agendas and tasks in English as a lingua franca by Will Baker, Fan Fang & Telma Gimenez has just been made available open access by Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-teaching/article/global-englishes-research-agendas-and-tasks-in-english-as-a-lingua-franca/9D8CABD3D9DEFBC5B45AB7D66237052A PDF below. Global Englishes, and within that … Continue reading
Thursday, 11th June (Cambridge)
1. Pride of place today to the ‘personal passion project’ that Chris Sowton has been developing over the last few months, Teach Any Class https://teachanyclass.org/ It’s a wonderfully rich resource, covering Professional Development, Classroom Activities, Skills Development, Important Concepts, Great … Continue reading
Tuesday, 9th June (Cambridge)
1. !!SHORT NOTICE ALERT!! A Hachette webinar, From Assumptions to Partnerships: rethinking parental engagement to raise children’s achievement, with Cat Jones at 16:00 UK time tomorrow, Wednesday 10th June. More info and registration here https://hachette-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/5rYCdZUoTVCTJpaN3hetIQ#/registration National research with in-service teachers … Continue reading
Thursday, 4th June (Cambridge)
Posting early today as we’re off up to Sheffield later on to babysit The Artful Dodger while his dad exhibits at the Goldsmiths North show and mum supports. Venceremos! 1. The latest free-to-attend IATEFL monthly webinar is at 15:00 UK … Continue reading
Tuesday, 19th May (Cambridge)
Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. Here’s one I put aside a while back and lost sight of, a piece in University World News, Huge progress on widening HE access globally since 2000, which looks in some detail at higher education in … Continue reading
Thursday, 7th May (Cambridge)
1. Here’s Michael Feldstein’s latest post on his eLiterate blog, Claude Interviews Me About How AI Works https://eliterate.us/claude-interviews-me-about-how-ai-works/ It’s a long read for the weekend, I suggest. Feldstein’s Claude has learnt (from Feldstein) to be very articulate. I’m returning (says … Continue reading
Tuesday, 21st April (Cambridge)
1. A TED talk by Peter Steinberger on his creation, Open Claw https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_steinberger_how_i_created_openclaw_the_breakthrough_ai_agent OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger takes us back to the transformative moment he let his AI agent loose on the internet, igniting one of the world’s fastest-growing open-source … Continue reading
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