Ton Koenraad: Portfolio Summary
 

ton.koenraad@hu.nl
 

 Welcome!

This page is meant to inform you on some aspects of my working life..

I went to the trouble (*) of putting this on the web because I believe that sharing experiences through the WEB is a powerful innovative force for (general) education.

Some fields of my professional interests, anyway, would not have developed without international input and collaboration.

(* )The best kept secret about Technology seems to be that it always takes more time to use than planned!

I work at the Faculty of Education of the Hogeschool Utrecht (Utrecht University of Professional Education).

My main tasks involve:

 Acquisition and coordination of ICT/ILT related projects
Supporting integration of activities in the teacher education curriculum aimed at the acquisition of ICT-E related professional competencies
Professional development of in-service teachers and teacher trainers in the field of educational technology and flexible learning.
 
Fields of Interest My Related sites and Publications
(in Dutch and English )
Network-based Language Learning & Teaching
bullet  MICaLL
Moderating Intercultural Collaboration and Language Learning.
Comenius 2.1 Project 2004-2007
 
Flexible learning / CoP (Communities of Practice)

 
bullet PRONETT
My info site on the Socrates Project to support a community of (student) teachers designing educational materials.
CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)


My Special CALL Interests:

LanguageQuests:
WebQuests for language learning
bullet  My CALL Website:
With a special focus on the LanguageQuest project
(papers and presentations)
 
bullet Discussion forum on use and design of LanguageQuests
 
bullet ECML Workshop on LanguageQuest
 
bulletInfo-Site on Professional Development Projects on Use and Design of TalenQuests (in Dutch)
 
bullet My LanguageQuests: Weblogging  and  EUN Hotel
EduBlogging

 

MFL + Virtual Worlds

 


 

  
bullet My blog on Interactive Whiteboards in Language Education

 
bullet MOO-MVT:  Site with my projects and papers on 3D Virtual Worlds and references to MOO-Pages. (in Dutch)
 

Some of my other publications and presentations can be downloaded here.
My earlier work (most in Dutch) is also available.
 

Current & Recent  Activities:

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.
Project coordinator of  'CATS' (2006-2007), a project of the Digital University Consortium to support the development of academic and professional communicative competences of ethnic minority students.
Initiator of the Comenius 2.1 Project MICaLL (2004-2007) for the development of a turnkey curriculum project for Teacher Education on network-based language learning.
Project coordinator of 'INVeST', a project of the Digital University Consortium. (2004)
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)
Projectmanager of the Socrates/Minerva project 'Professionals Networking Education and Teacher Training)' PRONETT  (2001-2004)
Member of network 'ICT and Teacher Education' supported by the ADEF, the Assocation of Dutch Teacher Education Organisations.(2002 -
Member of the Consortiumgroup TalenQuest NL
Member of RDC  6 'ICT and Teacher Education' of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE),
Member of the ICT Expertise Centre Foreign Languages:  The ICT-platform of the National Bureau Modern Foreign Languages (1998 -
Member of the Knowledge Platform 'Education and ICT' of the Utrecht University of Professional Education.( 2004-
Member of the working group 'Teamwork and ICT'  of the Utrecht University of Professional Education. (2005-2007)