Year: 2011

I have just made an app for my website annefox.eu without any programming skills using Conduit Mobile app. It took me about 15 minutes and most of that time was taken up in fetching RSS feeds rather than anything remotely technical. I am impressed! Indeed I almost considered not telling anyone how I had done…

Great infographic illustrating the meaning of colours in different cultures. People seem to agree on the colour of anger and surrender! Embed the above image on your site Direct Link via

If you were ever curious about how the Absolutely Intercultural podcast came about and how it works then you may be interested in this interview I did recently with Shelly Terrell. The interview was done as I was about to start as facilitator on The Consultants-E podcasting course. Yes, I know, I need a new…

Get out there and create something! That’s the message from Lunefeld who likens downloading and uploading stuff online to eating and exercising. Too much eating (downloading) and not enough exercising (uploading) leads to obesity and what he memorably terms ‘cultural diabetes’. The opinion piece published in New Scientist by Peter Lunenfeld makes a powerful case…

The webinar entitled ‘Give interculturality a chance – Can social media make a difference?’ on June 29th was to help us understand what social media are and in what ways they can help us improve our understanding of intercultural issues in language learning. I was honoured to be invited by the Language Learning and Social…

‘What’s a podcast?’ was the reply I got when I suggested to a young lady recently that her forthcoming study trip to India might feature in my podcast, Absolutely Intercultural. As I am about to facilitate one of The Consultants-E’s short podcast courses aimed at language teachers, this shows that the concept is perhaps not…

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,…