Tonyversity LIVE
Well, the name has stuck since my very first website in 1995, so it seemed inevitable that when I left a permanent post in academia I would set up the ‘Tonyverse’ for myself. With considerable thanks to the efforts and technical wizzardry of my very good friend, M. Haider Alleg, www.tonyversity.com is now launched as my business website. You may also find the odd article or news item on my Tonyversity Blog to be of interest. Not only do I teach as a vacataire, but I have my own business engaging in: business management training professional development coaching higher levels of applied business English to key managers working the Anglophone markets a hybrid of business English and management...
Tourism, New Technologies and Alsace
[A draft article I wrote for the British Tourism Society focusing upon the point that it is the contexts and cultures in which ICT is to be embedded which determines how it looks, feels, is used and the degree to which it is successful rather than the technology itself.] Le Tourisme et les Nouvelles Technologies: TNT – just about says it all, really – it has considerable explosive potential. However, as ever, it is not technology that is the important issue here, so much as the context in which it is employed; a realisation that dawned upon me most emphatically on the evening of my 17th birthday on the old Homesley Aerodrome in the New Forest some thirty-odd...
It’s that time again
Well it is! August has tipped over into September and ‘La Rentrée’ has well and truly arrived…and as I look out of the window the stromclouds are a-gathering (hope that is not an omen!). Timetablers (of which my wife happens to be one) are all tearing their hair out trying to get students, staff and rooms in some kind of order, and the rest of us are frantically getting our respective ‘acts’ together on the preparation front. Me, I’m fighting the good fight with this new website content management software – and if someone had told me 15 years ago I’d be doing this I’d have thought them mad (or ‘puddled’ as my North country mother used to...
Welcome to the Tonyversity Campus!
Hello all and welcome to my Campus! This will be the base/ ‘launchpad’ for all the materials I will be using. If you see something on my screen in class, either you will find it here or linked from here. The Teaching Schedule for the particular unit you are studying with me will be the ‘driver’ in the sense that each week you will find links to key materials we will be using. So, if you are studying in Mulhouse (FSESEJ) La Fondérie, say, click-on the appropriate navigation strip / toolbar at the top of this page, then select your unit from the drop-down menu of units I teach at FSESEJ: this will take you to the Teaching...
About Me
Here is the link to my professional site personal profile if you are that desperate to know a bit about me, my career and life and thoughts in general! Surprising how many actually read it!