Coaching connected learning across borders

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,…

As I observed in my last post Moodle 2 is substantially different from its predecessors and now more suitable for use as a social networking tool. In this post I want to go through some of the technical aspects of making a Moodle more social. Some of these relate specifically to Moodle 2 while others…

I was recently asked by a VET college to advise about setting up Moodle as a more social area for the students. They wanted it to be a place where the students could not only practice writing but also a place where they could upload photos and videos from field trips, exchange visits and so…

Identity crisis View more presentations from annefox.eu. A discussion with Valentina Dodge at last year’s IATEFL conference sowed the seed for the idea of the workshop which I facilitated at this year’s IATEFL conference in Brighton. We were talking about the many talks at the 2010 conference given over to promoting Twitter and other social…

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…

Well it was good while it lasted but if you value any of the materials from Teachers TV then you have only until the end of this week to copy or download them. I knew that the site was no longer going to be funded by the British government but the promise that the materials…

The challenge for week 2 of the mobile learning course, MobiMOOC was to come up with ideas for mlearning courses. I have two possibilities in mind. The first is the old inappropriate transfer from an old medium to a new medium in that I have an existing course which can be delivered face to face,…

Just started the Mobimooc and intend to see it through! Unlike my abortive attempts with connectivism. So now I will make progress in mobile learning! It’s a pic’n’mix course (dear old Woolworths how we miss you) where the determined track out their own learning path while the rest cherry pick. And my the cherry harvest…

I love infographics and there aren’t enough of them on this blog. So here’s one showing which are the easiest and hardest languages to learn for English speakers. Courtesy of Voxy, a great mobile learning language company, unfortunately (for me) only targeted at Hispanics learning English. Via: Voxy Blog