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 [...]
Nov 102011
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 [...]
Sep 152011
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 [...]
‘What’s a podcast?’ was the reply I got when I suggested to a young lady recently that her forthcoming study trip to India might feature in my podcast, Absolutely Intercultural. As I am about to facilitate one of The Consultants-E’s short podcast courses aimed at language teachers, this shows that the concept is perhaps not [...]
I was very curious when I received the European Podcast Award package because it was incredibly large and incredibly heavy. Inside was a really beautiful trophy made out of glass. So that was why it was so heavy. Also in the box was a very small and light Olympus voice recorder which was my prize [...]
Jan 072011
Apps are small programs that you can download to your mobile phone, tablet or mp3 player. There are thousands of them and I suddenly became curious whether there were any to do with intercultural communication. I did a bit of research and found three which I reviewed in the latest Absolutely Intercultural show. Thanks to Evan [...]