Willy Weijdema

Curriculum Vitae

Résumé

I studied linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. I work at the teacher training college ofEFA, the Amsterdam Faculty of Education. Since 1995 I have been ICT-coordinator in the department of languages. Since 2000 I have been also ICT-coordinator in the institute for in-service training in Amsterdam: CNA, and I manage a virtual community of Dutch language teachers on the internet: htpp://www.digischool.nl/ne/community/. In 2002 I managed a project for creating a language portfolio for language teachers: www.taalportfolio.nl . Since October 2002 I have participated in a European project EDIPED: European Digital Portfolio for the Evaluation of Educators: www.ediped.com I publish about ICT and education, especially ICT in language acquisition and in testing language competencies.

Personal details

Surname

Weijdema-Pieterse

First name

Willy H.

Date and place of birth

17th August 1944, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Academic address

Hogeschool van Amsterdam

EHvA, department of languages

Wibautstraat 2-4

1091 GH Amsterdam

tel.+31 20 5995670

+31 6 51538844

e-mail: W.H.WEYDEMA@hva.nl

Home address

Buitenveer 69

1381 AC Weesp

tel. +31 294 412924

+31 6 51538844

e-mail: W.H.WEYDEMA@hva.nl

I am married to Pieter Weijdema and I have two children.

Education

1950 - 1956

Primary School, Amsterdam

1956 - 1961

Secondary School, Amsterdam

1961 - 1964

TeacherTrainingCollege, Amsterdam: Gemeentelijke kweekschool voor onderwijzers

1964 - 1968

University of Amsterdam: Dutch language and literature

1973 - 1976

University of Amsterdam: Linguistics

 January - April 2005 University of London: Online Education and Training

Qualifications

1963

Teacher’s certificate

1964

Head Teacher’s certificate

1968

NederlandsMO-A + MO-B: Dutch Teacher certification for lower and upper secondary school

1976

Doctoraal Algemene Taalwetenschap:

MA linguistics

 2005 Certificate Online Education and Training

Teaching

1964 - 1967

Teacher of general education in secondary school

1968 - 1977

Teacher of Dutch at teacher training college

1977 - 1992

Teacher of general and applied linguistics with NederlandsMO-A, at Nutsseminarium, Amsterdam, adult education courses

1980 - 1989

Teacher of general and applied linguistics with Nederlands MO-B, at COCMA, Utrecht, adult education courses

1987 - 1992

Participant in the NIVO-project: a project for implementation of new technologies in Education

1989 - 1995

Teacher of IT at D'Witte Leli, teacher training college, Amsterdam

1995 - 2004

ICT-coördinator and Teacher of language theory of acquisition in the department of Languages of the Amsterdam Faculty of Education

2000 - 2004

ICT-coördinator in the institute for in-service training in Amsterdam: CNA

2000 -

Manager of a virtual community of Dutch language teachers on the internet: htpp://www.digischool.nl/ne/community/.

2002 - 2003

Project manager of the project: Language Portfolio for Language Teachers: www.taalportfolio.nl

2002 - 2005

Participant in EDIPED: European Digital Portfolio for the Evaluation of Educators: www.ediped.com

 2004 - Teacher in the summer course: Effective Use of the Internet
in Language
 Teaching: http://www.amsu.edu/courses/language/lang22004.htm
 2004 - Teacher in the online Post Graduate Diploma Course Effective Use of the Internet in Language Teaching of the University of Amsterdam: http://www.ilo.uva.nl/english/pgdiploma/
 2004 Coordinator of IMAGELO: a project of EXCELO, expert centre for the use of electronic learning environments: http://www.excelo.nl/
 2005 - Trainer in the Comenius 2.2 course: EDIPED

Publications

1982

‘Strukturen in Verbale Interaktie’. Coutinho, Muiderberg, 1982. ISBN 90 6283 585 6 (with Simon Dik) Structures in verbal interactions

1987

‘Taalbeschouwing en de computer’. In: Informatiekunde en Nederlands, SLO-katern nr.15. Enschede, 1987 Linguistics and the computer

1988

‘Nieuwe Informatietechnologie in het Voortgezet Onderwijs’. In Computers & Onderwijs, symposiumverslag van het Centrumvoor Beroepsvervolmaking Leraren, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen. New information technology in secondary education

1988

‘Tekstreconstructieprogramma’s’. In: Levende Talen 436, December 1988, p.643-647 Text reconstruction programs

1990

‘Het gebruik van vraagtalen’. In: IT & Taal-blad 3 : 2, January 1990 The use of queries

1990

‘Informatica en Nederlands in de bovenbouw. In: Levende Talen 453, September 1990, p.341-343 Informatics and Dutch in the sixth form

1991

‘Taalbeschouwing en Informatica’. In: Levende Talen 461, May 1991, p.256-260 (with Jan Lepeltak) Linguistics and informatics

1992

‘De Taalkist: 12 lessen over taal en computers’. Schoonhoven: Academic Service, 1992 (with Jan Lepeltak) ISBN 90 6233 865 8 The language box: 12 lessons about language and computers

1996

‘Vensters’, methode voor Informatiekunde. Academic Service Educatief, Schoonhoven, 1995 – 1996. 3 dln Windows, schoolbooks for IT

1997

'De Docent in de 21e eeuw'. ICT in de lerarenopleiding. In: Levende Talen 524, November 1997, p.540-543 (met Ton Koet) The teacher in the 21st century. ICT in teacher’s training college

1998

‘Domweg gelukkig met gedichten. Over het gebruik van multimedia bij het fictie-onderwijs. In: Spiegel 16 : 3, 1998, p. 29 – 43. The use of multimedia in teaching literature

1999

‘Feit en fictie in de Dapperstraat’. In: Informatiebulletin I&I en S&O 11 : 2. 1999, p. 4-6

2000

‘Using a web-based portfolio for improving language competencies’. Paper presented at Eurocall Conference 2000, Dundee, Scotland, published on the website of EFA

2001

‘Using a web-based portfolio for improving language competencies’. In : Toward a Harmonious Multilingual and Multicultural Society in the 21st Century. Conference book of LET 2001, The Annual Conference of Japan Association for Language Education and Technology, Nagoya, Aichi University, Japan. p. 255 – 258. Also on the website of EFA

2002

Vakwijzer door en voor Neerlandici. In: Retoriek en praktijk van het schoolvak Nederlands 2001 Academia Press Gent, 2002. p. 255 – 260 A search engine for teaching Dutch

2004

Ontwikkelingen binnen de vakcommunity Nederlands. In Levende Talen Magazine, March 2004 Developments in the community of teachers of Dutch in secondary schools

Presentations

1998

‘Facts and Fiction. A multimedia system for interpreting fiction.’ Presentation at Eurocall Conference 1998, Leuven, Belgium

1999

‘Facts and fiction. The use of multimedia in teaching literature. Presentation at the IAIMTE Conference 1999. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1999

’Facts and fiction’. Presentation at Eurocall Conference 1999, Besançon, France

2000

‘Using a web-based portfolio for improving language competencies’. Presentation at Eurocall Conference 2000, Dundee, Scotland.

2001

Using a webbased portfolio for improving language conpetencies. Presentation at the IAIMTE Conference 2001. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2001

‘Using a web-based portfolio for improving language competencies’. Paper presented at LET 2001, The Annual Conference of Japan Association for Language Education and Technology, Nagoya, Aichi University, Japan

2001

‘Using a web-based portfolio in the training of Language Teachers. Presentation at Eurocall Conference 2001, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2003

Using a Web-based European Language Portfolio in the training of Language Teachers. Presentation at Worldcall Conference 2003, Banff, Canada (with Ton Koet)

2003

Ontwikkelingen binnen de vakcommunity Nederlands. Presentation at the conference ‘Het schoolvak Nederlands’, Utrecht 2003. Developments in the community of teachers of Dutch in secondary schools

   2005   EDIPED: the development of a digital appraisal tool for the collection and presentation of portfolio evidence of an educator’s competencies. Presentation at the 30th annual conference of ATEE in Amsterdam.  
2005 Digitale Communities voor docenten. Presentation at the I&I-conference, Lunteren 2005. Digital communities for teachers

In October 2000, 2001 and 2002 I organized study tours about ICT and Education to London for Dutch teachers, with my colleague Ton Koet.