Brief description
TEFL teacher and project developer in the areas of e-learning, EU projects, teacher training, mentoring, inter-cultural competence, language learning, m-learning, Nordic languages, online meeting moderation
Extended profile
About
I am a language teacher interested in e-learning through communities of practice who works largely through international projects.
I am based in Denmark as a project consultant in adult vocational education, e-learning and with a special emphasis on languages and inter-cultural competencies.
Recent/current activities include online moderation of EU project meetings, project leader of a Nordic project, developer and lead tutor of a train the trainers course for teachers of English seeing an opportunity to enhance the learning process through ICT in their teaching, curriculum developer, tutor and course material author for an inter-cultural competency course for teachers of adult education in Europe and author of a handbook on implementing e-learning for disabled adults.
I am also a tutor for The Consultants-e in Barcelona where I have tutored the first online version of Trinity's Certificate in ICT.
I am always interested in getting in touch with potential project partners or people with good ideas which could be developed into projects.
Publications
1. 'Teaching English as a Second Language - A new pedagogy for a New Century' edited by Manish A. Vyas and Yogesh L. Patel 2009 PHI Learning Private Limited, New Delhi
2.'Mentoring for 21st Century Skills: It's all about the learning' Edited by Helen Keegan and Anne Fox 2009 ISBN 978-1-905732-79-1
3.‘Using Podcasts in the EFL classroom’, TESL-EJ Vol 11, No 4, March 2008 http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/a4.html
4. 'Project work and 21st century learning challenges as exemplified by the VOCA2 project' Proceedings of the ALTA conference 2007, Kaunas, Lithuania 2007
5. TEACHING CULTURE! A MULTI-NATIONAL BLENDED COURSE FOR TEACHERS OF ADULTS IN EUROPE,IATEFL Poland, Computer Special Interest Group,Teaching English with Technology: A Journal for Teachers of English,ISSN 1642-1027
Vol. 6, Issue 2 (May 2006) http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_article24.htm#fox
6. VOCA Project Handbook: Handbook of best practice for implementing e-learning in vocational training for the disabled, 2005
7. It's for Teachers 2002/2003
8. Working and Living in Europe, Stanley Thornes 1996 ISBN 07487 2582 2
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Personal website address
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Interests
e-learning, EU projects, inter-cultural competence, language learning, m-learning, Nordic languages, online meeting moderation, teacher development
Company / Institution
CV2
I would like to ...
become comfortable in the usage of Web 2.0 technologies so that they can begin to serve me and my work, continue to experiment with increasing the effectiveness of inter-cultural communication, continue to improve the effectiveness of language learning including through appropriate use of technology
Main Skills
developing online courses (languages and inter-cultural communication), devising teacher development events, managing projects, moderating online meetings, near fluent Danish, near fluent French, Project management, project work, writing articles - reports - textbooks and handbooks, writing project applications


