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Luke Baxter

Can ELT afford digital?

29 de fevereiro de 2016

Last weekend I was lucky enough to be able to attend the MAWSIG conference in London. This is a gathering of talented materials writers, editors and publishers. The theme of the conference was “New ways of working for new ways of learning” so the focus was heavily on digital and writing for digital. As I...Read More

Reflections about Education, Technology

digital education, elt

SCORM – Sharable Content Object Reference Model

3 de fevereiro de 2016

by Luke Baxter

You say tom/ɑː/to and I say tom/eɪ/to (or your content says SCORM 1.2 and my platform says SCORM 2004v2), let’s call the whole thing off. If the bit in brackets of the title of this post means anything to you, then I feel for you as you must be stuck in the same compatibility...Read More

Technology

SCORM, technology

Collaborative Google Project – part 1

29 de novembro de 2014

by Luke Baxter

For this blog post, I will be reporting live from an educational project I have set up. Outline: Objectives: To see how effectively Google Docs can be used for Online Projects by both Young Adults and Primary learners. To use collaborative learning to practise English and Spanish. To keep members of my household busy on...Read More

Technology

educational project, google docs, projects

The Babel fish, Skype translator and the end of the world as we know it…

1 de setembro de 2014

by Luke Baxter

I’m no futurologist but I have made two apocalyptic predictions in my time, both of which look like they might come true. The first was that I thought it was a very bad idea to try to convince the Chinese that they should adopt a Western lifestyle. Even before we knew what we know now...Read More

Technology

skype, translation, voice recognition

Adaptive Learning

31 de julho de 2014

by Luke Baxter

I am the Digital Publisher for Richmond and it is part of my job to keep abreast of the hot topics and technology trends that are affecting our industry. Right now there is nothing hotter than adaptive learning. Adaptive learning is part of a wider trending topic: big data. The theory seems to be that...Read More

Technology

adaptive learning, big data, eltjam blog, technology trends

Using Wikis for ELT Project Work

29 de junho de 2014

by Luke Baxter

When you hear the word “wiki”, what do you think of? Wikipedia probably. Wikipedia is indeed the best known example of a wiki, it is so well known in fact that it has pretty much taken over the meaning of the word “wiki”. What makes Wikipedia a wiki is that it is editable. Anyone can...Read More

Technology

platform, projects, resources, wiki

The ELTons

6 de junho de 2014

by Luke Baxter

Everyone at Richmond was deliriously excited about getting an ELTon nomination for our Big Picture app. The ELTons are the very prestigious British Council awards that recognise innovation in ELT. Deborah Tricker, our Global Publishing Director, Laura Orchard who works in our Oxford marketing department and is the queen of all things social media and...Read More

Technology

app, awards, eltons, the big picture

Will apps kill books?

30 de abril de 2014

by Luke Baxter

Books are books and books are great. Let’s not talk about the end of the book. Let’s look at new media for what they are… new media. Ever since Socrates worried that the written word would spell the demise of the art of spoken rhetoric, doom-mongers have been foretelling the demise of one medium or...Read More

Technology

apps, books, interactivity, media

Back from BETT 2014

29 de janeiro de 2014

by Luke Baxter

The end of January always means one thing for me as Digital Publisher at Richmond: BETT! As three weeks have passed since New Year’s Eve, I will probably have had a glass of wine, a cream cake and a sneaky cigarette but I do stick to my resolution of getting to this amazing conference and...Read More

Educational Technology

BETT, BETT Brazil, EdTech, educational technology, language games, language lab, learning platform, Miguel Brechner Frey, social games