The digital handshake is a critical point in any online interaction. Handled well, it will lead to successful and rich communication. Handled badly, it will take a long time to recover and get group process on track. I am thankful to Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay for this evocative name for a vital part of [...]
The pilot problem is that you work very hard to develop and test an idea but once the pilot is over you are then faced with the problem of promoting adoption. In European projects where I do a lot of work, there is great emphasis on valorisation to use the rather inelegant name that the [...]
In relation to the PLP Connected Coaching course I now need to address the self-assessment rubric in a bit more detail. The strength-based approach means that I should concentrate on strengths rather than deficiencies and while I don’t feel that I am unduly modest, I must admit that I am not entirely comfortable when applying [...]
When you are a course facilitator it is always salutary to go to the other side of the table once in a while. Some of my work involves being a tutor for The Consultants-E, mostly on very intensive 20 week courses. It can be quite difficult for working adults to sustain that level of commitment [...]
Teaching as a design science Do you see yourself as a designer? According to Diana Laurillard, that’s exactly how teachers should be seeing themselves and she had a proposal for systemizing the process of engineering learning experiences. Diana Laurillard’s IATEFL 2012 plenary was making the case for the collation of proven pedagogical patterns across all [...]
I’ve always wondered how politicians such as Tony Benn were able to keep such copious diaries while in office. It is when I’m busy that I don’t have time to blog and the fact that this is the first blog post of the year is testament to the deadlines that I have been trying to [...]
Get out there and create something! That’s the message from Lunefeld who likens downloading and uploading stuff online to eating and exercising. Too much eating (downloading) and not enough exercising (uploading) leads to obesity and what he memorably terms ‘cultural diabetes’. The opinion piece published in New Scientist by Peter Lunenfeld makes a powerful case [...]
In the VITAE project (2007-2009) we developed a course to train VET teachers to hone their digital skills while learning how to mentor their colleagues to do the same. In fact the mentoring part seemed to get lost in the scramble to understand how to use the amazing wealth of Web 2.0 technologies out there. [...]
I was recently asked by a VET college to advise about setting up Moodle as a more social area for the students. They wanted it to be a place where the students could not only practice writing but also a place where they could upload photos and videos from field trips, exchange visits and so [...]
Identity crisis View more presentations from annefox.eu. A discussion with Valentina Dodge at last year’s IATEFL conference sowed the seed for the idea of the workshop which I facilitated at this year’s IATEFL conference in Brighton. We were talking about the many talks at the 2010 conference given over to promoting Twitter and other social [...]
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