Coaching connected learning across borders

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…

As I  facilitate the transfer of the VITAE course to a new project network I can sense that what the project partners expect from me are a series of presentations, articles and activities. These would then be seamlessly transfered to their institutions. Instead I give them learning outcomes and a template as carried out in Denmark…

This looks like an interesting tool to make coaching skills easier to grasp and pass on to others. This is precisely what is needed for our updated version of the VITAE course. In the new UnderstandIT project where we are trying out ConCurrent E-learning Design as an approach, the VITAE course is being used as…

I experienced two critical incidents in the space of two hours today, one positive and one negative. Let’s start with the bad news. I was at the checkout in the supermarket when the checkout operator became aware of a smell. Looking around I discovered that the lid of a jar of tandoori paste I had…

I was very curious when I received the European Podcast Award package because it was incredibly large and incredibly heavy. Inside was a really beautiful trophy made out of glass. So that was why it was so heavy. Also in the box was a very small and light Olympus voice recorder which was my prize…

Being able to find out where you fit in the spectrum of several measures of intercultural dimensions is not new but tends to involve a very costly process. On Philipe Rosinski’s site you can complete just such a questionnaire and get the results for free. I can imagine that this might be a wonderful exercise…

It is quite a step to move the concurrent design (CCD) process from a technical product to the design of a course (CCeD) and it is even more of a step to move the CCD process online. But this is the aim of the UnderstandIT project and we took our first steps last Friday with…

Apps are small programs that you can download to your mobile phone, tablet or mp3 player. There are thousands of them and I suddenly became curious whether there were any to do with intercultural communication. I did a bit of research and found three which I reviewed in the latest Absolutely Intercultural show. Thanks to Evan…

The sessions for the 2011 round of EVOnline workshops aimed at EFL teachers have been released. Although you cannot sign up until the beginning of January it is a good idea to browse the available options so that you can decide which ones you want to join. The organisers recommend that you join no more…

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…