Having just completed another very successful Intensive Programme in Lithuania, I witnessed once again the challenges of working in a second language. As a native speaker and a teacher on the programme, I was acutely aware of the huge extra efforts it takes to understand the different variations of English which are common in the [...]
Nov 102011
EPA episode 3 I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by Karin Høgh as part of the run up to this year’s European Podcast Award. The deadline for nominations is November 30th but it’s best not to wait until the last minute because who goes through depends in part on votes and the longer [...]
May 152009
I have signed myself up to do a session on the use of games in professional development in the forthcoming Webheads in Action Unconvergence! To see the full range of sessions on offer for free, click here.
Apr 092009
<![CDATA[ The last Absolutely Intercultural show was our third anniversary! Last time we had an anniversary we had a behind the scenes look at how the podcast is put together so this time I was looking for something different and decided to put together an intercultural FAQ based on what we have been doing for [...]
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Mar 102009
<![CDATA[ While I was in Ireland two of the students in my media workshop had a long conversation with Thomas Johnston, a retired teacher and current radio broadcaster about the Gaelic language. It is one thing to read about the diminishing numbers of languages and speakers of minority languages but quite another to learn about [...]
Feb 222009
<![CDATA[ A week ago I was on the remote west coast of Ireland taking part in the Intensive Programme experience called Borrowed Identities. This involves students from universities in Germany, Hungary, Lithuania and the UK coming together for 12 days of intense collaborative work in the area of cross-cultural communication. The point about bringing them [...]
<![CDATA[ Comparing online video conferencing systems is a recurring theme of mine, partly because there is so much happening in the market. On Monday I was part of an online meeting in Marratech presenting my experiences of working with Wimba to the Distans network of Scandinavian educators. On the virtual podium with me were speakers [...]
Feb 202009
<![CDATA[ As coordinator for the EU Leonardo project VITAE in which the partners are developing best practices for mentoring teachers to support them in their use of ICT in teaching, I was very interested to come across this simulation game. The Difffusion Simulation Game has been developed by Indiana University and seeks to give you [...]