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 [...]
May 152011
I spend a great deal of time facilitating courses helping teachers learn how to integrate ICT into their everyday practice. Although I have facilitated such courses in blended format with a great deal of face to face input, most of the time now I find myself facilitating 100% online. There are worries of course about [...]
Well it was good while it lasted but if you value any of the materials from Teachers TV then you have only until the end of this week to copy or download them. I knew that the site was no longer going to be funded by the British government but the promise that the materials [...]
It is quite a step to move the concurrent design (CCD) process from a technical product to the design of a course (CCeD) and it is even more of a step to move the CCD process online. But this is the aim of the UnderstandIT project and we took our first steps last Friday with [...]
The sessions for the 2011 round of EVOnline workshops aimed at EFL teachers have been released. Although you cannot sign up until the beginning of January it is a good idea to browse the available options so that you can decide which ones you want to join. The organisers recommend that you join no more [...]
Nov 052010
I was honoured to be invited to give a presentation to the Polish Moodle Moot today but I couldn’t go to Poland so I did it virtually in Elluminate. What I did was to run through five habits in working with ICT in your teaching which I think are important to anyone considering including more [...]