Year: 2011

So picture the scene – you are a university student and have decided to go on an internship abroad. Recognising that most business is accounted for by small and medium sized companies (SMEs) you decide to apply to a SME for your internship. Almost immediately you have a problem because you don’t know what SMEs…

My presentation ‘Coaching for ICT Integration’ has just been released in the K12Online 2011 conference. In this session you will find out why coaching is an effective professional development tool and how the VITAE course (as adapted by the UnderstandIT project) could help you become an ICT integration coach. You will do this by using…

The SIETAR Berlin group invited me to talk about the Absolutely Intercultural podcast on Nov 18th and the recording is below. The conversation proper doesn’t start until about four minutes in and lasts about 15 minutes. The next speaker was Dr Abdulhamied Almoraithy about using multimedia in the Arab World for intercultural learning which starts at…

I was very honoured to be invited to participate in the annual Managing Cultural Diversity Seminar at Rhein Ahr campus once again this year.  Photos of the event are here and here. As ever there was a grand diversity of topics from finding out the diversity of ways in which we can greet each other…

Basic assumptions Earlier in the year I was speculating about how to implement a mobile exercise using one of the many augmented reality apps that have appeared in the last couple of years. Before I could implement I wanted a smartphone so that I could experiment and this finally happened in June. Although I bought…

I’ll be sharing our experience of trying out CCeD in distributed mode at the Global Education Conference 14-18th November. My slot is on Friday at 11am CET which is GMT+1. Join me for this free session if you want to find out more about how we implemented ConCurrent eDesign across borders and what results we…

EPA episode 3 I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by Karin Høgh as part of the run up to this year’s European Podcast Award. The deadline for nominations is November 30th but it’s best not to wait until the last minute because who goes through depends in part on votes and the longer…

So the first step is always to record some conversations. If we are all in the same physical location I use an Edirol recorder (though now most phones can do the job just as well). But for online chats I use Skype together with Pamela. When I have all the recordings then I get to…

After more than ten years extolling the virtues of blogs and wikis, I was pleased to discover that they have gone mainstream, at least in Denmark. Any Danish school now has access to a strong array of blogging, wiki, web page and audio and video hosting services tailor-made for the education sector called Skoleblogs. The…

I have an idea for a Smartphone based game to help visitors to a local village learn a bit about its history through the medium of a treasure hunt. I’m wondering how practical these plans are. How will visitors know the game exists? Posters and brochures with a QR code which leads players to a…