Latest icEurope News

News in February: icEurope publication

The icEurope booklet "Web collaboration for intercultural language learning" has been published with Monsenstein & Vannerdat publishing house

The booklet is accompanied by an Online Resource Area. This area includes a variety of tools, ideas and suggestions to aid the planning of one's web collaboration activities and e-learning or blended learning courses.

More information is available here.

The booklet is available through any bookstore and also in different eBook formats. To order a copy, please follow this link.

News in October: Symposium on issues and results of icEurope

“Authenticating Language Learning: Web Collaboration Meets Pedagogic Corpora"

We invite you to participate in and contribute to the symposium “Authenticating Language Learning: Web Collaboration Meets Pedagogic Corpora" organised by the Applied English Linguistics group at the University of Tübingen (Germany), in cooperation with the Eurocall CorpusCALL and CMC SIGs.

The symposium will take place from 17-19 February 2011 (Thursday-Saturday) at the English Department, University of Tübingen.

Through hands-on workshops and paper presentations, one strand of the symposium will look more closely at different facets of web collaboration and online learning, also to take up and discuss results from icEurope.

Read more about the symposium website: http://www.ael.uni-tuebingen.de/symposium.html

We look forward to seeing you in Tübingen!

News in July: "Taking a Walk in the Park - Intercultural Foreign Language Learning through Web Collaboration"

Find out more about intercultural web collaboration in our July newsletter

Our current newsletter provides some information about planning and carrying out your own web collaboration activities. Also, some of our students share some of their impressions.

To read our July newsletter, please click here (pdf, 350kb)

News in April: icEurope as project of the month

icEurope was featured as the "Project of the Month" by elearningeuropa.info. What a great opportunity for spreading the word on the project. To read the newsletter, please click here.

icEurope online community goes Ning

The icEurope workshops have successfully started in the icEurope partner countries and the web collaboration pilot course is in full swing.

Now that the icEurope community is growing, we have created an icEurope Ning site. Come and join our network community site for exchange and communication between icEurope members, teachers, workshop participants and others interested in using educational technology for intercultural foreign language learning!

The link is: http://iceurope.ning.com/

icEurope Workshops starting in March 2010

“Intercultural language learning: Web collaboration in the English classroom”

Between March and September 2010, several icEurope teacher training workshops will take place in Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Turkey.

The workshops will focus on the following:

• Intercultural communicative competence in English
• Developing intercultural communicative competence through web collaboration activities
• Creating own units or activities for this purpose in Moodle & how to teach and support learners online
• Sharing ideas on using Moodle and other e-learning tools to foster intercultural communicative competence

In the workshops, teachers, student teachers and teacher educators will have the opportunity to work hands-on in Moodle and with the icEurope materials. The training materials can be used for future teach-the-teacher workshops at your own institution.  During the workshops, you will create your own sample unit, ready to be used in your own classroom. Opportunities for real web collaboration follow-up and networking amongst all participants will be given.

More information is available here.

The Web Collaboration Activities in Moodle - a sample

For more project news and a closer look at the web collaboration prototype, click here.