Shaun Wilden's Blog

My other blog

As you may know if you follow me on twitter I started a new blog at the beginning of the year to post musings and thoughts about apps – I’ve changed the url so it’s now appedelt.com.

Playing with IBooks Author

So, it’s a few days since Apple once more set the Internet abuzz with a ‘game-changing’ app launch and at last Twitter has calmed down a bit as people take stock of what iBooks Author can actually do. I can see from the hashtags I follow that there have already been a fair few blog posts on the subject but I wanted to make up my own mind before reading what others had to say.

Bottoms Up, it’s a new year

http://www.disclose.tv/forum/happy-birthday-duck-did-you-think-we-would-forget-t26317.html

Happy New Year everyone. As I start my first conference of the year, I begin to wonder what this year’s conference circuit will hold in store and what new and exciting things I’ll learn. One thing I hope is that I’ll see more of a ‘bottoms up’ philosophy appearing in workshops and conferences.

Can you help me with the content for a talk please

Thanks for coming to read this. I need your help please, if you can spare a few minutes of your precious time.

As might have seen from twitter, #eltchat is going to have a symposium at IATEFL about social networking. My talk is going to centre on hashtagging.

Acinne 11 – list of links

The links for the conference talk s are below but first, as promised the slides from the talk I did in Recife, João Pessoa and Aracaju.

Embracing digital

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And this is there ACINNE talk:

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A week in Cyprus

I am writing this sitting on a plane back from Cyprus where I have just spent the last three days running some technology training in a joint project between OUP and the ministry of education.

Rule no.1 – Shaun Lies

Towards the end of last week, I stumbled across Chiew Pang’s excellent video asking us to pick out the two lies in the facts he gave us about himself. After watching and then (wrongly) guessing, I read the accompanying blog post and found out that this was part of another blog challenge. This one being set by Dave Dodgson on his reflections blog.

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An ELTChat Summary – What makes a good online English course?

This is a summary of #eltchat held on 14th September 2010 on the topic of What makes a good online English course?

#ELTchat is held every Wednesday at 12 BST and 21.00 BST - we meet for one hour to talk about ELT related topics. You can find out more on the blog

Links and slides from ELT Signpost talks

Before getting to the links, I thought I’d share a video Mark Andrews made while at the conference – though he has made me realise how much I walk around!

This is the bibliography for my talk last Saturday at the ELT signpost conference in Brno

Going QR crazy?

Since taking an mlearning course a few weeks ago, I think I have become obsessed with QR codes. Not that I hadn’t seen them before, I have been using one to give contact details at the end of talks for a while but I think the course heightened my awareness of them, well that and I think there has been a sudden rise in their use.