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’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 [...]
Dec 182010
Is it possible to transfer an industrial design process to the development of e-learning material? This is what I and a group of other European partners are going to try out using the VITAE course as a trial product. Earlier this week I made a very quick trip to Trondheim in Norway to attend the [...]
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 [...]
Nov 052009
The VITAE project in which a European partnership developed and piloted teacher training to implement mentoring of vocational teachers to integrate ICT in their teaching is almost over. A few weeks ago we project partners got handsome paper copies of the book that we have put together which brings together various aspects of the project. [...]
Sep 182009
Back from Lithuania where we held the final meeting of the VITAE project. We had planned to run the VITAE online mini-conference on one of the meeting days but really it was a shame to be stuck indoors while the weather was so sunny and spring-like. The project has been about developing a train the [...]
Mentoring teachers who are learning to integrate ICT in the vocational training classroom was the aim of the VITAE project under the banner of ‘It’s all about learning – the rest is technology’. The project is now drawing to a close and as part of the wrapping up we are offering a free mini-online conference [...]
Jun 162009
I get to one or two conferences a year on average and have just returned from my first visit to the EDEN conference which this year was in Gdansk and my main impression was how friendly everyone was. Large conferences such as Online EDUCA Berlin and hip conferences such as Reboot in Copenhagen make efforts [...]
May 272009
I was pleased to be able to take part in the biennial Webheads in Action Online Convergence which this year was an Unconvergence which means that this online event was organised on the lines of an unconference. Since it was a bank holiday plus I had family visiting I was unable to do more than [...]