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Once again the biggest event for language learners, language teachers, language lovers, linguists or those who just want to indulge in a little wine tasting, is taking place in Olympia, London from the 30^th of October to the 1^st  of November 2009.

The Language Show is free to attend; you just have to register in advance by going to the exhibition’s web site – http://www.thelanguageshow.co.uk/

The show offers an array of distinguished exhibitors (including us WAES!): Colleges, schools, publishers, specialist language teachers, recruiters and quality speakers.   The event is aimed to help, advise and provide tips and resources needed to learn or teach languages.

The talks and events this year look to be a well-judged mixture of fun insight sessions and in-depth guidance. I would strongly recommend popping in some of the language teachers’ Seminars, particularly the E-Learning related talks!

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We are planning a few more elearning training sessions for Summer, but we would like to know from you all when would be the best time for everyone.

Please tick the preferred slot or type in other suggestions.

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Learners and teachers already use mobile technology in nearly every aspect of their daily lives. Now education has been plugging into that massive chance for learning by providing permanent access to educational materials, along with easy ways for learners to connect, collaborate and share.

You know that mobile learning is reshaping the educational experience. Learning no longer happens only in the classroom or at a desk.

I am sure that loads of students are iTunes users already. Now instead of just going to iTunes for their music and movies they can also find entertainment for their brains!

iTunes U in the iTunes Store offers free audio and video content from top universities, well-known museums and other cultural institutions. With iTunes U your students can learn from the world’s leading thinkers, attend free lectures, peep at an exhibition, listen to audiobooks or just brush up their Spanish.

Students can sync iTunes U content with any iPod or iPhone, so they can go right on learning while they grab something to eat, walk to class or work out at the gym. They will only have to search, download and play educational content as easily as they do with their music, movies and TV shows.

It’s accessible to anyone with a Mac or PC.

If you haven’t got iTunes, you can download it for free – click here!

Try it yourself! Learn anytime, anywhere.

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Health education is essential these days but it can be quite difficult to explain the concept of a balanced diet. Fortunately, teachers can use some great interactive websites and their interactive whiteboards to help students learn the concepts of a balanced diet.

ActiveScience GSK has a great interactive activity called Balanced Diet that challenges students to interact with different people, read about their goals for a balanced diet and then choose the best meals throughout the day. They are provided feedback about their choice of diet that helps educate them about the importance of the types of foods they are eating. This activity also has supporting worksheets including a word search and a word scramble.

Many teachers love using video to enhance their lessons. The downside: many videos are too long, and it’s time consuming to scan a video to find the clip you want to use. Here are two sites that can help streamline the process.

TubeChop and SPLICD allow you to select a section of a Youtube video and crop the bits that you do not want to use, then you obtain a link that you can share with your students or place into your SMART Notebook file. This gives you the ability to launch a quick video clip with minimal classroom down time.

All you have to do is to copy and paste the YouTube URL, crop the video and copy the link to share or the embed code to insert in your VLE.

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It’s a great tool for every subject area. Go and have a look.