Author: kierandonaghy

Interview with John Hughes

Teacher, trainer and materials writer John Hughes answers The Image Conference Questionnaire. Your favourite film to use in class: When I do workshops on using videos, participants always suggest new films which then become my current favourites. As I tend to specialize in Business English teaching, the short film ‘Signs’ (directed by Patrick Hughes, no […]

Interview with Steve Muir

  Teacher, trainer and blogger Steve Muir answers The Image Conference Questionnaire.   Your favourite film video website:   Not going to be very original here, I’m afraid. About 99% of the videos I use in class can be found on YouTube or Vimeo.     Your favourite film to use in class:   I […]

Paul Driver

Language teacher, researcher, teacher trainer, graphic designer and illustrator Paul Driver talks about his session at The Image Conference.   [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ASZF7HaCM0]   Read more about Paul and his session here.   Pervasive Playfulness and Mobile Technologies for Embodied Language Learning Paul Driver 16.15 – 17.15 Room 13 Thanks to the rapidly increasing adoption of […]

Ian James

Teacher, trainer and blogger Ian James talks about this session, Photo Opportunities, at The Image Conference in Barcelona  on Saturday 8th June. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NvVSZ6NCk8?rel=0] Read more about Ian and his session here.  Photo Opportunities Ian James UAB Idiomes 12.15 – 13.15 Room 13 Camera-equipped mobile devices, image-editing applications and photo-sharing platforms have led to a revolution […]

Interview with Kyle Mawer

Teacher, trainer and award-winning writer Kyle Mawer answers The Image Conference Questionnaire. Your favourite film: Fave film is Pulp Fiction.   It’s one of those films I can watch again and again.  One day I plan to use the Easter egg and watch it in chronological order.  Astro Empires and Clash of Clans are two gamesites […]

Interview with Ben Goldstein

Teacher, trainer and writer Ben Goldstein answers The Image Conference Questionnaire. Your favourite video website:   Short of the week http://www.shortoftheweek.com/ is a good place to go for short films to use in class. It’s user-friendly as it allows you to refine your search in terms of genre, style and topic. Meanwhile for edgier and […]

Interview with Laura Vazquez

Teacher, trainer and blogger Laura Vazquez answers The Image Conference Questionnaire. Your favourite film: I love Pixar videos, they work really well in class. . Your favourite film website to use in class): I use this short film site a lot: http://www.jamesonnotodofilmfest.com/     Why are you interested in using film / video in your […]

Interview with Lindsay Clandfield

Award-winning writer, teacher and trainer Lindsay Clandfield answers The Image Conference questionnaire.   Your favourite game website:  My favourite game website is called Conquer Club. It’s basically the board game Risk, online. . Your favourite video to use in class: I know that it sounds like a plug, but recently I’ve loved using the Global […]

Interview with Ceri Jones

Teacher, trainer and writer Ceri Jones talks about herself and her session at The Image Conference. Your favourite film: I always find any question with “favourite” in it so difficult to answer.  My mind immediately either goes blank and I either can’t even think of one example or a huge list parades before my inner […]