Beyond the Pier

Welcome to Beyond the Pier. This is a wordpress.org blog I have set up to gather resources and post thoughts on all things  related to language, education and technology.  I will shortly embark upon teacher training (known as a Postgraduate Certificate of Education or PGCE) in London and I hope to use this space as a way of documenting and sharing my experiences.

With it being a secondary PGCE in French that I will study, the intention is to focus on how the recent leaps and bounds in technology and web 2.0 can be used to improve and supplement the teaching of languages.  However, I also hope to post more generally on education and technology in the classroom and how it can be used to facilitate and streamline a teacher’s day-to-day work.  There should also be a sprinkling of tidbits related to, among other things, language, media, cinema and music.