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Welcome to the Taccle2 website!
Welcome to Taccle 2 – the site has: Free downloads of the 5 step-by-step guides to integrating ICT and e-learning in your classroom: primary education, maths, science and technology, key competences, arts and culture and humanities. Free downloads of the popular E-learning Handbook for Classroom Teachers produced by the Taccle 1 project. Hundreds of ideas and Full […]
Jenny Hughes
Gamification
I’ve always loved designing and playing games as a way of helping teachers and pupils learn new skills and knowledge. I used to particularly enjoy designing and running management games which sometimes ran for the whole duration of a 3 or 4 day residential course and were based on a simulated timescale, an imaginary location, Full […]
Jenny Hughes
Taccle2 –> LIDIA
On February 26 took place an International Seminar with the participation of Portuguese and Spanish experts in the field of adult digital inclusion and literacy. In this seminar materials and resources developed were presented. Among them an e-book and an online library in which is expected to include the activities developed within the project Taccle2 in Full […]
Fernando

Improving the skills and competences of VET teachers and trainers in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Pontydysgu are partners in a new project on Artificial Intelligence and vocational Education and Training, starting this month. The project will last for two years and is funded through the EU Erasmus Plus programme. It is coordinated by the Institut Technik und Bildung at the University of Bremen and includes partners from Greece, Italy and […]
Graham Attwell
Continually becoming: open learners and open educators
“Being open’ is not binary state or a one-time decision”, says Catherine Cronin. Many open educators and scholars have referred to openness as a way of being, or becoming . “Open educational practices (OEP) are continually negotiated by individuals within various contexts. And Zourou (2017) reminds us that engagement in OEP is “far from being […]
Graham Attwell
Productive project meeting in Athens – Part Two: Common themes and working perspectives between two TACCLE projects
In my previous post I reported on my participation as a guest in the project meeting of the TACCLE VET project. As I mentioned, this project focuses on promoting digital competences in the field of vocational education and training (VET). The parallel project TACCLE 4 CPD (in which I am working) is developing models of […]
Pekka Kamarainen

TACCLE3 CODING Conference
Originally posted on Ange's Scribbles: On October 6th 2017 we are organising the Taccle3 project’s final conference in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels. If you: • Want to learn more about ‘computational thinking’ and the link with coding, • Listen to some motivational speakers • Participate in hands-on workshops full of practical class room…
Painting with sound
Babi2.0 playing with Singing fingers. Took her a minute to work out she needed sound and contact with the touch-screen to be able to draw. Maximum cuteness points for her song though!
Ozobots
The girls got the chance to play with some Ozobots recently. They respond to the colour and path of whatever line you place them on, so they will move along the path and change colour or direction depending on the colours they pass over. The bots come with some pre-printed cards and you can download […]