Last friday I hosted the third edition of the E-Teachers Conference about the Future of Teachers in a Global and Digital World. The panelists were Christopher Grant of Sclipo, Duane Sider of Rosetta Stone, Shiv Rajendran of LanguageLab and Stephan Stephensen of Mingoville.
All of them did great presentations covering various aspects of the changes teachers [...]

The Edublog Awards are in their sixth year already. And 2009 is my first time to set up a nomination list. Exciting!
And my nominees for the 2009 Edublog Awards are:
Best individual blog: Mixergy.com
Best individual tweeter: Seth Godin
Best new blog: JonBischke.com
Best resource sharing blog: Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day
Most influential blog post: A Manifesto for [...]

Jon Bischke just announced the following on Twitter:
I admit, I am a bit lost for words. This is the proof that educhange is not only a vision anymore. It is happening. Before I wrap this up in a bigger post, I will have to let it sink a bit.
In the meanwhile please read the whole [...]

This post is the result of several talks I had with a couple of different people in our industry during the last year. The final impulse to write this down here is on the one hand a discussion in the E-Teaching community on WiZiQ. I will mention the second impulse at the end of this [...]

On Monday eduFire launched its new Tech Channel. Topics include for example Java, PhotoShop, php, SEO and Wordpress. This is their contribution to fight structural unemployment. One can say that after teaching people how to found their own business with the Business Channel, eduFire now want to serve those businesses with well trained employees. If [...]

Today Languages Out There officially launched its Facebook project in partnership with Vivox, the company which offers the first VoIP client on the social network.
Facebook users can now buy Self Study, One-to-one and Group Courses in the English Out There Book Store on the Facebook page of the company and practice their English with their [...]

Yes, we are back!
The third edition of the E-Teachers Conference will be on November 27th at 6PM CET.

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This Vlog is about the entry level of language students when they take online one-to-one lessons with a teacher. There seems to be an increase in this level, less and less students start at beginner or elementary level.
What is the reason for this? Is it because of the popularity of online language learning communities like [...]

This is my first Vlog post on kirstenwinkler.com. As there is so much going on in our industry it is fairly hard to keep up with longer blogposts. So I decided to share some “insights” with you, small thoughts I have during the week that are interesting (I hope) but not made for a whole [...]

A long awaited feature finally made it in the WiZiQ classroom: screen sharing. According to a survey I made amongst teachers a couple of months ago screen sharing comes directly after voice quality on the must have list for virtual classrooms.
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