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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Regular online meetings between infrequent face to face meetings help motivation and cohesion but the CCeD approach seems to be adding even stronger impact to project products. In my role as internal evaluator for the UnderstandIT project it has been interesting to see the result of applying Concurrent Design to the quality of the project [...]
Stop Press!!! Google are to abandon and pull Google Translate by the end of the year. Multi-lingualism is at once the bane and the aim of EU projects. How can you reach out to a collection of 27 countries with as many languages? The issue of translation is a key one in the UnderstandIT project, [...]
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 [...]
I’m offering an hour of free coaching to the first five teachers who contact me wanting help with integrating ICT into their everyday teaching practice. You should be a reasonably confident computer user who surfs the Internet regularly, prepares documents in Word and can make a basic PowerPoint presentation. The coaching will take place through [...]
As I facilitate the transfer of the VITAE course to a new project network I can sense that what the project partners expect from me are a series of presentations, articles and activities. These would then be seamlessly transfered to their institutions. Instead I give them learning outcomes and a template as carried out in Denmark [...]
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