Coaching connected learning across borders

After more than ten years extolling the virtues of blogs and wikis, I was pleased to discover that they have gone mainstream, at least in Denmark. Any Danish school now has access to a strong array of blogging, wiki, web page and audio and video hosting services tailor-made for the education sector called Skoleblogs. The…

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…

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.…