Coaching connected learning across borders

In most cases what you grow up with is normality and very soon you know how to behave in most regularly occurring circumstances. When you move to a different culture, all that know-how is not necessarily valid and suddenly the daily, weekly, monthly and annual rythms aren’t automatic anymore. Instead there are a whole array…

It amuses me a little that I have just taken delivery of a book published in India to which I have contributed a chapter. I guess that just shows my age. When I arrived in Denmark 17 years ago I thought I was being extremely international in having a contract to write a text book…

I didn’t realise it explicitly at the time but my wedding was an intercultural affair since my mother is French and we invited several French relatives over to participate in the event. Thinking back so many years ago I don’t recall ever paying any attention to what the French participants would be expecting, still less…

Yes, it’s that time of year again! Today marks the first official day of registration for the free EVonline sessions offered as part of the run-up to the TESOL conference in a couple of months time. The sessions have been going for many years now and still there is much of interest for all types…

In order to hide the fact that I have parked a website on a subdomain of foxdenuk.com I only needed to add (NOT REPLACE) two lines of code to wp-config.php define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://greenlandwhitefront.org‘); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://greenlandwhitefront.org‘); Neat!

I think I finally understood a couple of Lenny Henry’s characters after talking to Kole Ade-Odutola about the Yoruba language. Kole is from Nigeria, currently living in the US and teaching Yoruba in Florida. I hadn’t realised that it was a requirement of all university students in America that they should spend some time learning…

Denmark has one of the highest, if not the highest, income tax in the world with a top marginal rate of 61% which it is quite easy to reach. You get a lot for your money but can always argue whether it is enough. Adjustments are always being made. The latest adjustment means that from…

I have justfinished a blended learning business English course which was an experiment to find out whether people would like to learn 50% in the classroom and 50% online.These were definitely in the pre-intermediate category. I had an extremely mixed group including cable fitters, fish processors, yeast factories, tourist office and ferry companies. I decided…

I have just finished a project with my technical students in which my subject Communication and IT was linked with sociology. The sociology teacher had a role play she wanted to use and so in the end the six week project revolved around that role play. The final project was a good mix of the…

Life has been a bit hectic lately which is how I came to find myself recording the links for the latest Absolutely Intercultural podcast in Aarhus airport and using a 4 hour wait in Copenhagen airport to edit together Show 96. So you’ll have to excuse the odd lost word or two as someone clatters…