Recent Activities
Previous activities TELLConsult's representative, Ton Koenraad, was involved in.
- Invited speaker at the 2011 Anglia Members Meeting. We presented the iTILT project on the effective use of Interactive whiteboards in language education and also did a workshop on using a number of typical IWB features to promote dialogue and social interaction in the MFL classroom.
- Invited keynote speaker for the 2011 English for Kids conference
Animator, together with British Council project partner Graham Stanley, of a workshop on IWBs in Language Education at the REAL-TICE conference in Madrid, organised by the European Network of Language Teacher Associations (REAL)
- Interviews with EU MFL/CALL experts Colpaert, Guichon, Müller-Hartmann, Davies & Lund for inclusion on the 2011 centennial festivities DVD of the National Association of language teachers in the Netherlands ´Levende Talen´
- Poster presentation on the iTILT project on the use of Interactive Whiteboards in Language Education
- at the EUROCALL 2011 Conference at Nottingham University, UK.
- Coordinator of WorkPackage 2 (development of 3D virtual world) of the EU- KA2 Project 'Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Learning and Research' (NIFLAR)
- Pre-conference workshop animator illustrating some IWB uses for Modern Languages at EUROCALL 2010 conference. PDF-version download of Notebook presentation ''Methodologies for digital chalk'.
- Member of the organising committee of Symposium on future of language education at Centennial event of National Association of language teachers in the Netherlands ´Levende Talen´ #lt100jr
- Invited speaker at Dutch HE national SURFnet conferences 2009 and 2011
- Invited speaker at Symposium for Dutch L2 teachers in the Hague
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the EUROCALL 2010 conference.
- Member of the ICT expert group of the Dutch National Bureau on Modern Languages (NAB-MVT)
- Guest Editor of Issue 3 of the e-zine CORELL on LanguageQuests
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the EUROCALL Teacher Ed. SIG 2010 conference.
- External Evaluator of Pri-Sec-Co, an EU-project promoting continuity in MFL-curriculum and methodology between primary and secondary education.
- Invited speaker at the international seminar CyberTAAL (2008) organised by the GIAPEL research group at JAUME I University, Castellon, Spain. Link to my presentation.
- Course director for the MICALL Comenius Course at Utrecht Summerschool

- Member of the Consortium group TalenQuest NL
- Invited speaker at the 4th EduMedia Conference organised by the Salzburg Research Association.

- Member of the scientific committee of the UNTELE 2007 conference on the Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching, Compiègne France.
- Moderator of the international LanguageQuest network.
- Co-Chair of the conference 'ICT in Education and Professional Development of Teachers',17-18 September 2004, Leiden
- Coordinator of the 'LanguageQuest' project of the European Centre for Modern Languages (2006)
- Member of RDC 6 'ICT and Teacher Education' of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE).