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On May 17th 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was born under a sycamore or buttonwood tree. Signed by 24 stock brokers, the Buttonwood Agreement promised only internal trading with no auctioneers, and a maximum commission price on any trade was agreed.

With the recent economic crisis being felt across the world,

No matter what language you’re learning, grammar is hard. So many rules, exceptions to rules, and exceptions to the exceptions of those rules! Help your students keep on top of their English grammar with this great infographic, with some of the most common grammatical mistakes and tips to boost

The great thing about many of the online resources we have available these days is that they are not just resources in a static sense; they are also spaces that we can continually re-source for all kinds of student activities.

Russell Stannard recently spoke at IATEFL about the connected classroom, where we

I don’t consider myself to be particularly anal, except when it comes to my use of English. I hate to be corrected. So it was with a little irritation that I found myself being corrected in a meeting when talking in a general way about computer mouses. “Don’t you mean ‘mice’?”

Distance learning doesn’t seem to be an uncertain alternative to traditional classroom arrangements. Educators together with students have noticed the value of distance learning which has been greatly improving with the development of Internet technology.

The infographic below presents the growth of distance learning enrolment and the benefits of the distance learning

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Flickr is a free online platform which allows members to upload and share their photos. Users can annotate and comment on the images, create sets and slideshows of their photos, and join groups based around particular themes and interests.

It occurred to me that these features might well be harnessed to engage

We often discuss how teachers find using technology in the classroom what is difficult and easy for them when are confronted with tech tools. It might be also worth looking at how digital natives see education and what is important for them.

The infographic below shows how digital natives outgrow traditional forms

Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of our new-style news item!

We are now publishing a weekly news item that includes interactive activities, in response to feedback from MEC customers.

These activities have been graded to suit each of the three language levels: Easy, Average and Difficult. The activities focus on

A more course-integrated use of web tools

With more and more EAP teachers at our school bringing the digital world into their classrooms, we recently decided to take a leaf out of BECTA’s 2008 report on educational technology use and consider more concretely the idea of ‘pedagogy before technology’.

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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

A classic Shakespeare quote that may have held true in yesteryear Verona, but in this modern world a name can be the most powerful force in branding with the ability to make or break

I have always been a big fan of flashcards and been using them with all students regardless of their age. We are making big steps into the digital era of teaching and learning where very attractive and interactive images and interactions are introduced. In this technology focused times we can continue

English prepositions can cause quite a bit of confusion. Students can easily  get lost in the maze of rules and exeptions in regards to English prepositions. The infographic below can help them to organize the prepositions and control the confusions they cause. Maybe you could encourage students to come up with

Pinterest is a pinboard-styled social photo sharing website. Users create and manage boards:  theme-based image collections, they can also browse other pinboards for inspiration,’re-pin’ images to their own collections and/or ‘like’ photos. The site’s mission statement is to “connect everyone in the world through the ‘things’ they find interesting.” The website

Who doesn’t love Google Street View? I’m terrible at reading maps, and never go somewhere new without walking the walk through Street View first! And now you can be a virtual tourist, venturing inside some of the buildings you walk past with the Google Art Project.

The Google Art Project is

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and activist and the author of over 100 books. His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology. Chomsky is the creator of the universal grammar theory and has been described as the “father of modern linguistics”.

The infographic