• What’s the (Power)Point? 20-Jan-2012

    We’ve just come back to the office after our two-day annual conference. The conference is always held in January and its purpose is to get the Macmillan English Campus team together to reflect on what we’ve achieved in the past year, to look forward to what we’ve got planned for the

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  • Republican division: Romney and Perry fight it out at Las Vegas debate 20-Oct-2011

    Earlier this week, the seven Republican candidates for the 2012 US presidential elections took to the stage in the North American City of Sin to debate the merits of their own political aims, and those of their partisan rivals. However, while the aim of the debate was to persuade the electorate

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  • Engaging and innovative presentations with Prezi 28-Jul-2010

    Are you tired of using PowerPoint? Are you bored by whiteboard?

     

    Then feast your eyes on Prezi.com, the clever new way to make engaging and innovative presentations.

    Just like any presentation software, with Prezi you can write captions, use images and add design to your presentation.

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  • Guardian interactive guides 20-Nov-2009

    MEC Training Coordinator, Sarah Milligan, writes:

    While looking at the Guardian website I noticed they have ‘interactive guides‘. These take on various forms, they can be slide shows, pdfs that you can zoom into, or diagrams with areas you can click on to get more information. These guides

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  • Meetup 04-Sep-2008

    MEC Product Trainer, Sarah Milligan, writes:

    If you have learners who would like to practise English outside of the classroom tell them about Meetup.

    It’s a site where you can meet with people who have the same hobbies or interests as you and in the case of languages practise

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