Look! The good people at English Central recorded my webinar: ‘Using Images Creatively’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3ikWbyb8o

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=856E_Z-azXk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPZwGBBBII

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JQ3aZhuJto

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-K8RxWB_Q

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGuS5BhvnM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKaEZbTWTU

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Just wanted to share a few good image sites that I’ve come across during my online wanderings.
1.  The Life photo archive
Last year, as part of a joint effort with Life, Google began hosting an archive of the magazine’s photographs, most of which were never published. As is the case with the magazine, there is a […]

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From flashcards to flash images is the title of a talk I gave recently at the 3rd International Symposium and Conference on ELT Materials (link here). I would like to say thank you very much to everyone involved, especially Sujatha, Jayakaran and the people from Pearson, for organising a great conference and of course, for […]

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A few years ago I shared a flat with a mouse. It was a very considerate mouse in that it would always do its business just beside my shower drain. Unlike other mice I have known, this one never left me inconvenient “packages” in places where I didn’t want to receive them (in my wardrobe, […]

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Like many online newspapers, the Guardian website has a news in pictures section. Sometimes the images on offer are so good that they write their own lesson plans. The above photograph for example comes from a slideshow titled What they thought of next - a series of pictures from the 36th International Exhibition of Invention […]

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