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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m often asked how I know so much about tools available to help in the language classroom. The honest answer is that I don’t carry this knowledge around in my head. I think that I have learned to read the online landscape and if I see something I like, I know that there are a [...]
I am just returning from my first IATEFL conference which this year was held at Harrogate. Why was this my first time even though I have been teaching English for over 10 years? I guess that I have been attending events which are geared to e-learning rather than teaching English. I get the impression that [...]
I’m not sure why it hasn’t occurred to me before to explore the intercultural aspects of the EVonline sessions for language teachers offered by TESOL. For 8 years now I have been enjoying and benefitting from the international mix of teachers who sign up for these free development sessions and so in the last Absolutely [...]
It amuses me a little that I have just taken delivery of a book published in India to which I have contributed a chapter. I guess that just shows my age. When I arrived in Denmark 17 years ago I thought I was being extremely international in having a contract to write a text book [...]


