CD-ROM: A Teacher's Handbook

by Pete Sharma

This text is designed to help language teachers understand and exploit the medium of CD-ROM. Features of the book include: photocopiable resource material; how to set up and manage a multimedia centre; practical ideas for use with CD-ROM discs; technical advice; activities for teacher trainers; a databank with information on a wide range of available CD-ROMs.

172 pages, Spiral-bound

First published November 1, 1998

About the author

Pete started his EFL career as a business English teacher in Madrid, moving to Finland before returning to the UK. He worked as teacher trainer, Director of Studies and school manager before becoming the Group teacher training and development manager for Linguarama, a business English organisation which is now part of the Marcus Evans group. In his capacity as a member of the Group Pedagogical Unit he inspected schools, taught writing seminars in the Middle and Far East, and helped create and run trainer training courses. He has written extensively about technology in language teaching. Pete recently changed from ESP to EAP, and currently divides his time between lecturing at Oxford Brookes University and on the Warwick University pre-sessional courses, and writing. He keeps a blog on using technology in ELT with co-author Barney Barrett.