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TELLConsult visited schools in SA Swellendam area

on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 14:52

Thanks to introductions from Adriaan Mocke, Board director of the Olyfkrans College in Swellendam (see picture on the right here) 

I could visit Hoërskool Swellendam and Swellendam Senior Sekondere Skool.

Representing the Anglia Europe Network and the English for Kids Foundation (EFKF) my mission was to explore project development opportunities for both these organisations. 

At Swellendam secondary school I spoke to the principal, Mr. Adonis, and the head of the English Language Department, Ms James. 

They were interested in both ventures and wanted to set up an EFKF-facilitated, pilot

TELLConsult contributed plenary presentation to EU project ETALAGE conference

on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 19:56

On behalf of TELLConsult I contributed a presentation, entitled 'Task-supported language teaching and technology-enhanced learning'  to the final meeting of the EU project ETALAGE in Budapest. (more on this below) 

 
 

The fourth and final meeting / Conference of the Etalage project took place in Budapest from Sunday the 9th of October until Thursday the 13th of October 2011. Eötvös Lorand University and Madách Imre Gimnázium, Budapest, hosted the event for colleagues and their guests from 9 European countries. 

In his presentation 'Pedagogical changes brought about by ICT integration' at

TELLConsult contributed to review of SURF ACADEMY Summer School ‘ Video in Education’

on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 15:55

SURF is the collaborative organisation for higher education institutions and research institutes aimed at breakthrough innovations in ICT. SURF provides the foundation for the excellence of higher education and research in the Netherlands. More info here.
Kirsten Veelo, one of its community managers, invited me to contribute to an interview about the SURF ACADEMY Summer School ‘ Video in Education’. 

View the recording here 

Sequences of the results will be used for her presentation about SURF services at the EDUCAUSE 2011conference

For a more elaborate report on this course see my review

TELLConsult contributed keynote to the 2011 English for Kids conference

on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 20:50

On the occasion of the European Day of Languages 2011 EFKF, the English for Kids Foundation, organized 2 days of English in Action. 


Friday 23 September was reserved for the EFKF Kids World Games, Saturday 24 September for the International Support & Teach Conference. 

Both events took place on University College Utrecht Campus and were financially supported by the European Platform.

Various volunteers presented information on the EFKF projects in India, South Africa and Ukraine they were or had been involved in.

As Head of EFKF Research & Development I was invited to provide some input and

TELLConsult levert bijdrage aan Levende Talen Studiedag 2011

on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 19:39

Als projectpartner in het Europese project  ‘interactive Technologies In Language Teaching’ (iTILT ) 

verzorgt TELLConsult een workshop op de Studiedag 2011 van de Nederlandse vereniging voor taaldocenten 'Levende Talen', met de titel:

Op weg naar kwaliteitskenmerken voor digibord materiaal.

Samenvatting
Hoewel het digibord overwegend enthousiast ontvangen wordt in onderwijsland, blijken voor veel taaldocenten de toepassingsmogelijkheden minder voor de hand liggend.
Tevens laten metastudies zoals (Koenraad, 2008a) zien dat digibord gebruik niet vanzelfsprekend toegevoegde waarde biedt voor de

Ervaringen van EU projecten met 3D en onderwijs

on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:09

Universiteit Utrecht en TELLConsult willen graag de ervaringen m.b.t. 3D en onderwijs van een groot aantal partners uit het EU-netwerk ´EUROversity´ presenteren op de SURF onderwijsdagen 2011.

TELLConsult at EUROCALL 2011

on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 11:25

TELLConsult to present iTILT poster at the EUROCALL 2011 Conference in Nottingham (UK)

TELLConsult partner in EU Transfer of Innovation Project

on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 21:21

As representative of the Dutch TalenQuest project TELLConsult's owner Ton Koenraad was invited to join an international partnership applying for an EU grant to support the transfer of results and experiences obtained in the LanguageQUEST project (improved task design and methodology for realistic, content oriented, task based foreign language learning).

 
The Aims and objectives of WQuest project are:
  • To transfer results and experiences obtained in TALENQUEST project (improved task design and methodology for realistic, content oriented, task based foreign language learning) and to

TELLConsult joined EU CALL project application

on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 21:25

Utrecht University invited TELLConsult to join its new initiative to scale up facilities and know-how developed in the NIFLAR project
The project aims to contribute to the challenges of the Lisbon main strategy (2000) by further improving telecollaboration among peers at secondary educational level and the innovation of teacher training programmes. 

Its experiences with telecollaboration in the NIFLAR and the MiCALL project will allow TELLConsult to make a relevant contribution. 

This new project seeks to:

  1. innovate, enrich and make more attractive and effective foreign language teaching

TELLConsult supports EU project bid on 3D learning

on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 20:48

TELLConsult partner in grant application for an EU-network on education & virtual worlds.