As newly appointed members of the EUROCALL MALL-SIG we, Bruce Lander (chair), Valentina Morgana (secretary) and myself (co-chair) decided to organise two activities in 2019: a symposium on Mobile Assisted Language Learning ( MALL) in May and a SIG Meeting / Teachmeet event at this year’s conference of the Eurocall Association in August. Valentina managed Read more about MALL SIG symposium CALLmi @ Milan great success[…]
At TELLConsult we just had two intensive weeks of activities related to some of our EU projects. We have been promoting the #DEIMP contributions to the @MiTEconference 5th annual International Conference on Mobile Technology in Teacher Education in #Sidney on the project’s Twitter account @DeimpAdmin EU ErasmusPlus Project ‘Designing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies. Another promotion Read more about Recent EU project related activities[…]
At TELLConsult we strongly support the views expressed in ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’ by the EU Commission ‘European Group on Ethics and New Technologies (EGE)’ to offer upskilling and lifelong learning opportunities of the current workforce for a changing labour market. With innovation in education and language teaching as our specific focus we Read more about TELLConsult supports views in EU publication ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’[…]
At TELLConsult Training we have been pleading with the EU #EACEA organisation for some years now to also financially support blended forms of courses in the #ErasmusPlus Mobility Programme. So a combination where providers of professional development courses offer an intensive 3-day face-to face, international meeting with lots of input on innovative educational concepts & Read more about Why we also need blended forms of CPD courses in the EU Mobility Programme[…]
TELLConsult senior consultant Ton Koenraad, co-chair of the EUROCALL Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group, will be contributing to the organisation, promotion and programme of the 2019 SIG event ‘CALLmi‘ in Milan. Find an excerpt from the CfP here: CALL FOR PAPERS CALLmi: Where are we going? Current and future trends in MALL and CALL Read more about TELLConsult to contribute to Symposium on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning in Milan[…]
TELLConsult team updated its course offer – with the latest addition on Dyslexia and EFL teaching now totalling 15 – https://www.tellconsult.eu/current-courses/ We are also proud to have been requested to organise the free 3-day course on #differentiation with the help of tablets for the Erasmus+project TABLIO https://www.tellconsult.eu/free-course-tablets-for-classroom-differentiation-and-inclusion This project multiplier event (11 – 13 March, Read more about TELLConsult course offer updated & expanded[…]
The September Newsletter published by the EU School Education Gateway was dedicated to language learning. One of the featured articles entitled ‘Loquor ergo sum: new ideas for language teaching’ listed the iTILT project ‘Interactive teaching in languages with Technology’ as an example of good practice of promoting technology supported approaches in language learning. See the summary Read more about iTILT project selected as good practice of technology use in language education[…]
Having contributed to initiatives of The Future Classroom Lab created by European Schoolnet TELLConsult is pleased to see that the collaboration options for parties offering courses also via the Teacher Academy catalogue at School Education Gateway are being expanded. The more since we have been pleading for some time now with national agencies and EACEA Read more about EU Teacher Academy course content also available as OER for third parties[…]
Calling all LSP teachers and trainers (Version in Dutch below) Dear colleague, We would like to ask for your contribution to a survey about Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), as part of a European project called CATAPULT . We seek to identify potential needs in the professional training of teachers of LSP & discipline specific communication Read more about Calling all LSP teachers & trainers[…]
We attended and enjoyed the International conference ‘Data-Driven Learning (DDL): a scaffolding methodology for Foreign languages and #CLIL classes’ in Turin, 27-28 September 2018 https://ddlfl.weebly.com/ The event was intended to provide a bridge between researchers and school teachers. This resulted in a nice mix of interesting academic and practice-based papers & workshops, including e.g. the Read more about TELLConsult contributed OER to conference on big data in language & CLIL classes[…]