Mark Pentleton

Today I’ve been in Gateshead working with a group of MFL teachers on sourcing and creating podcasts in the MFL classroom. I covered various things in my workshops, and below you can find the links to the resources I’ve pointed out.
First of all, I run the Radio Lingua Network of language-learning podcasts, and our educational [...]

Today I’m down in Birmingham doing a presentation at the Emerging Technology Conference at Kings Norton CLC. My task is to talk about Mobile Learning in Education – using iPod Touches, iPads, iTunes and iTunes U – in 45 minutes! It’s virtually impossible to cover all the possibilities of this huge topic in such a [...]

It’s a couple of weeks since I was in Cheltenham with enthusiastic teachers from up and down the country at the Apple Teacher Institute. As one of the ADEs I was leading workshops on podcasting and using iPod Touches (and iPads!) in the classroom, but one of my first duties at the conference was to [...]

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This afternoon I’m running three workshops at the Apple Leadership Conference at the Cumberland which is running alongside BETT and involves educationalists from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. I’ve been asked to focus on creating resources for the languages classroom, and I’ve created a video version of my presentation. There are a few blips [...]

I’m doing this presentation over the next four days on the Apple Education Resellers stand at BETT. It’s aimed at teachers who want to find and organise free educational content for learners to use on their mobile devices. The presentation will help you get more out of iTunes, use it to organise your digital media [...]

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I’m doing this presentation over the next four days on the Apple Education Reseller stand at BETT 2010. It’s for teachers who want to create content and upload it to their VLE to allow learners to learn on their mobile devices.

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I'm in Girona, Spain delivering two session on using podcasts in language teaching – the first of these was this evening and was in a mixture of Catalan and Spanish. The second is tomorrow morning, so I'm trying to get a bit ahead of myself and putting up the notes and links from the presentation [...]

I’m sitting in Heathrow on my way back from Barcelona and was having a quick check of emails etc. (flight delayed…!) and noticed that VilaWeb has published an article about One Minute Catalan. Very pleased with the article (although slightly concerned about the “abandonament” referred to – not quite what I said! Anyway, si parles [...]

I must get back to this soon – I’ve got lots more to report back on, but it will have to be put on hold for the time being. Since I got back from the Expo things have been extremely busy catching up with everything. I’ll report back as soon as I can!

Gary Vaynerchuk started off the convention with Thursday’s keynote. Gary runs the very successful WineLibrary.tv and is something of an internet celebrity to say the least. These are some of the key points I’ve taken from his presentation.
If it’s not in your DNA then you’re not going to be able to do it
As a [...]

I’m currently flying at 37,000 ft above Nebraksa on my journey home to Scotland after spending five days in Vegas for New Media Expo. This has been my first visit to Vegas, and indeed to the US, and it’s been quite an experience.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from New Media Expo. I’d obviously [...]

I’m currently working as the co-ordinator of the Partners in Excellence project (PiE), for East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and Argyll & Bute Councils in the west of Scotland. The aim of the project is to promote languages education among young people and to raise the profile of languages within the three participating authorities. More about [...]