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research seminar by Cristóbal Cobo entitled e-competence in the European Framework: 21st century literacies and based in his research Strategies to promote the development of e-competences. How to reduce the gap between the e-skilled and the non e-skilled?. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Barcelona, Spain, April 15th, 2009.

 Happy #EuropeDay 2011 teachers around the European Union 

Google Apps for Education European User Group Meeting, June 15th 2012

A useful interactive history map of Europe. Watch as boarder move as nations rise and fall. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/History

ARGuing will help teachers use the Internet within language education. The project is funded by the European Union within the Lifelong Learning programme. The ARGuing project created 'The Tower of Babel' Alternate Reality Game to motivate secondary school students across Europe to learn languages with great success. see http://www.arg-education.eu/

Chain Stories is a European Union funded education project to motivate the learning of languages in early language learners (8 to 12 years). http://www.chainstories.eu/ The project works through children 'intercomprehending' the text of a story written by other children in one of the Romance languages. The project is open to schools across Europe that use a Romance language as the native language of learning.

EduComics is an European Union Comenius education project under the Life Long Learning Programme. It will show educators how online comics can be used in the classroom to enhance learning, engage and motivate students, and use technology in a practical and effective way. The project will create training material for teachers and organise seminars for teachers in Greece, Cyprus, UK, Italy and Spain.

European Union Comenius education project showing educators how digital comics can be used in the classroom to enhance learning, engage and motivate students, and use technology in a practical and effective way.

A useful site that helps with characters and symbols in European languages not usually found on an English keyboard. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages,+Culture+&+International+Projects

World's 3rd largest smartphone brand Huawei, to be announced its most awaiting mid-range premium device honor 9, the smartphone will launch at a special event on June 12, in Shanghai China. After the official launch in Shanghai, the phone is expected to be announced in Berlin for the European market on June 27.

World's 3rd largest smartphone brand Huawei, to be announced its most awaiting mid-range premium device honor 9, the smartphone will launch at a special event on June 12, in Shanghai China. After the official launch in Shanghai, the phone is expected to be announced in Berlin for the European market on June 27.

Lullabies of Europe for pleasure and early language learning. A European Union funded education project .

This site offers an easy way to create your own virtual flashcard to study anything. You can also use other users' cards or share your own to help students. It supports many non-European typing scripts, like simplified Chinese and Japanese to help learn languages. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

An intriguing site which has split the whole world into 3 metre by 3 metre squares and assigned 3 words to label that coordinate, giving addresses to millions around the world who don't have an official address, or making a meeting point more accuracy than a postcode. For educators, there are lots of geographic and literacy possibilities - geocaching with spelling, or writing short stories or descriptions about a real location including the words. The site can be viewed in many different European languages meaning there are MFL possibilities too."

Proud to be Leader in Cop2 organized in SMILE :) project managed by European Schoolnet . I tried to describe here my top 10 Social Media Curation tools to develop a PLN . Please add your feed-back and add comments with your favorite startups to build a PLN here http://bitly.com/collaborationincop2smile

Meet the extraordinary inventor of the Flex-Foot, a prosthetic leg that's light and durable, Van Phillips. He co-founded Flex-Foot, Incorporated which was later on sold to Ossur and started Second Wind, a non-profit organization. He was nominated as European Inventor of the Year in 2008. "Invention is almost always just arranging things in a new way." To read more about Van Phillips visit www.thextraordinary.org

Cardiff University is recognized in independent government tests as one of The British leading educating and analysis colleges. Established by Royal Charter in 1883, the University today brings together impressive modern facilities and a powerful approach to educating and analysis with its proud culture of service and accomplishment. Cardiff University is the biggest University of mature education and learning in Wales, with the Cardiff Center for Long term Studying offering several hundred programs in locations across Southern Eastern Wales. The University's lifelong learning actions also include the professional growth work performed by educational institutions for companies, and many of these is custom-made to match an individual business's needs. The Center also provides business terminology training at all levels. Founded: 1883. Structural features: Merged with University of Wales College of Medicine (UCWM) in 2004. Location: Close to Cardiff city center. Healthcare care learners also at hospital website, Heath Recreation area University, 1 mile away. Getting there: Cardiff Primary Place on the national train network; trainers to bus station (next to train station); M4 from London and M5 (west county and Midlands). For school, frequent teaches from Primary Place to Cathays station (on campus), regional vehicles from bus station (53, 79, 81 for main campus; 8 or 9 for hospital site). Academic features: 4-year incorporated food techniques, 5-year two-tier techniques in structure and town planning. 5-year medical and dental programs, plus foundation season for those without science backgrounds; medical teaching throughout Wales. Awarding body: Cardiff University; Wales University for some healthcare programs. Main undergrad awards: BA, BD, BDS, BMus, BN, BSc, BEng, BScEcon, LLB, BArch, MB BCh, MPhys, MChem, MEng, MPharm. Length of courses: 3 years; others 4 and 5 decades. Library & IT facilities: Integrated collection,

The European projectFACE IT! offers training opportunities and materials for the provision of Family Learning programs aiming to promote and develop Active Citizenship and Participatory Democracy.

Tool for Online and Offline Language Learning (TOOL) project, funded by the European Union, is building Blended Learning language courses in five European languages (Dutch, Estonian, Hungarian, Maltese, Slovene).

The Autonomous Language Learning (ALL) project, funded by the European Union, is building Blended Learning language courses in four European languages (Turkish, Romanian, Bulgarian and Lithuanian).

Key definitons (by Cedefop) The source of these definitions could be find online in this platform. "A multilingual glossary for an enlarged Europe: Terminology of vocational training policy (Cedefop, European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training)".