My (rather) complete profile
Thrown onto this globe: 07/07/1956 (Thanks, mum! You did great!)
I moved quite a lot (Lier > Ieper > Wevelgem > Lille > Berchem > Lier > Borgerhout > Lier (4X) > Antwerp)
I love travelling and visited
France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Portugal,
the Netherlands, Greece!!!, Turkey, Indonesia, Vietnam and Mauritius.
Favourite is Greece (dozens of visits! More than 40 islands)
Languages spoken : Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and about twenty-seven words in Greek, which beats my Latin!
How about study & work?
High school : St.-Stanislascollege
(Berchem) and Xaveriuscollege (Borgerhout)
University : UFSIA (Cand. Germanic Philology) - UIA (Lic. Germanic
Philology + Didactics)
Thesis on Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"
From 1981 - now:
Xaveriuscollege
- Borgerhout
1981-2004 : Teacher English - Dutch (1st to 6th form)
1989 : Teachers' Exchange Project with
Ratsgymnasium of Stadthagen (Germany). Exchange partner: Rainer
Beddig
1990's : organising yearly exchange program for 4th form students of
Xaveriuscollege and Ratsgymnasium and once an exchange with Lyceum of
Perama (Crete - Greece)
1994 - now: in-service courses on ICT and education at Xaco.
1998 - creation of
Poëzome-site (cyberpoetry creation of Xaco students' poems and
drawings)
2000 : winner of CST-award for Poëzome
2001 : Award of the minister of Education for the use of
Blackboard Learning Platform in the English lesson.
2000 - 2006: Part-time teacher trainer for
VVKSO
- 2000 - 2003: Teacher training project ICT and English (with Karel Van Rompaey, Gilbert De Ketelaere, Karel Vanderbeke,...)
- 2003 - 2004: Project leader for ICT and Dutch (with Guy De Becker and Kris Gonnissen)
- 2004 - 2005: Project leader for ICT and languages (Dutch, German, French and Latin)
- 2005 - 2006: Teacher trainer
in the EloV project (Blackboard Learning Platform) with Karel Van
Rompaey and Mia Quartier
May these projects RIP!
Regularly in-service ICT courses for different schools, KGH, REN, CBL, EHSAL,...
1999 - 2006: member of the ENIS
schools (European Network of Innovative Schools) -
EUN
2000 - 2004: member of the European Schoolnet (Virtual School - English
Department) - EUN
1996 - ... ICT-manager and webmaster of Xaveriuscollege (full-time since
September 2006)
Winter 2006 : ICT-integration in the English lesson: Workshop for teachers of 18 pilot schools in (Ho Chi Minh City) Saigon - Vietnam for VVOB.
2007-2008: Managing the computerisation project of the school (Xaveriuscollege): Xacowireless network, laptop for every teacher, projection in every class, computers in primary school.
2007-2008: Educational consultant for the "Ingebeeld 3" project of the "Canon Cultuurcel".
2007-... : "Pilot"-member for the testing of the European MELT project (European Schoolnet - EUN).
2008-... : IT school project in Kasongo-Lunda in the Kwango area in Congo.
Hobbies:
- Photography
- Travelling
- Webdesign
- Music
- Movies
- Used to like acting! (pictures and video's >> later)
- Drinking wine
- Enjoying life!