On Friday lunchtime, to welcome our newest two designers Becky and Abigail, we held a scarecrow making craft session for the local Stevington Scarecrow Competition. Whilst we don't think we'll win the competition it was good fun having a go and getting to know our newest recruits. Emma has also written a blog [...]
A fascinating read from Michael Trucano, of World Bank's blog EduTech. Big educational laptop and tablet projects -- Ten countries to learn from. Many countries across the world have been exploring the 1 laptop per child policy for a number of years now but what Michael observes is that this has been overtaken by a tablets [...]
One of the projects we worked on last year for Oxford University Press Magic Time second edition is now available to buy from OUP. We loved re-editioning this popular Primary ELT series and think young learners will find it magical! escabiose ivermectina Multi-component projects, like Magic Time, require design and visual consistency throughout, as well [...]
We have just purchased 19 licenses to Adobe Creative Cloud for all of our staff here at emc design. There has been some controversy over this move by Adobe to change their sales model from a physical product with specific licenses per application to a complete cloud-based subscription model. But we think there are some [...]
For the last few years emc design has been working with the Macmillan ELT team on the acclaimed Global ELT series. To get an understanding of the enormity of the project and the many processes involved in creating such an extensive course we've created a case study on the design & production process. See it [...]
On Wednesday we welcomed new designer Jordan to the team. We packed up a picnic and headed the few paces up the hill to the lovely (very) old windmill. It was just a little windy, the perfect spot to have built a windmill!
As a design agency that solely works within Publishing we deal with a lot of words. ربح المال من الالعاب اون لاين In order to meet our clients’ budgets and deadlines we have to be at the top of the game in terms of technical ability as well as creative ability when working with these [...]
Last night a whole load of us from emc design went along to celebrate a year of BookMachine events in Oxford. It was a great evening with lots of new and interesting people coming along, as well as some familiar faces. Tim Oliver (Macmillan Education) gave an insightful talk into running a Digital Publishing Unit. [...]
Our very own Sophie gave ELT Jam a micro-interview last week. She gave her thoughts in 140 characters to questions such as "What's the most interesting thing happening in ELT right now?" and "Gamification: a fad or the future?". So go on, have a read of the full interview, it won't take you very long!
This weekend sees two IATEFL online events. The first on Saturday 15th June is BESIG’s (Business English Special Interest Group) Online Conference, the first for the SIG. Featuring plenty of online workshops, talks and seminars as well as the plenaries from Evan Frendo and Vicki Hollett. So if you are part of the Business English Speaking/Learning [...]