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 [...]
Dec 022011
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 [...]
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. [...]
Jun 072011
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 [...]
Jun 062011
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mar 172011
This looks like an interesting tool to make coaching skills easier to grasp and pass on to others. This is precisely what is needed for our updated version of the VITAE course. In the new UnderstandIT project where we are trying out ConCurrent E-learning Design as an approach, the VITAE course is being used as [...]
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 [...]