Joe Dale
@joedale.bsky.social
UK Independent modern foreign languages & technology consultant. Former host of TES MFL forum & short-listed for NAACE Impact Award 2013 for Curriculum Support
This year on Bluesky I wrote 174 posts and 1,678 replies. I received 427 likes, whereas 8 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "using" and ✅!
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December 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This year on Bluesky I wrote 174 posts and 1,678 replies. I received 427 likes, whereas 8 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "using" and ✅!
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Here are 5 practical strategies for using AI in the languages classroom which I shared in the latest episode of the ListEd podcast by @NetSupportGroup. www.linkedin.com/pulse/learn-...
Learn how to use AI effectively to support language learning with tips from ListEd
Hi everyone! I’m absolutely delighted to announce that Episode 11 of the ListEd podcast by NetSupport has officially launched today!, In this latest episode, I share five practical ways that you can u...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Here are 5 practical strategies for using AI in the languages classroom which I shared in the latest episode of the ListEd podcast by @NetSupportGroup. www.linkedin.com/pulse/learn-...
I'm a @padlet black belt, apparently ;-) www.linkedin.com/posts/joedal...
I received a lovely surprise email last night telling me I have been awarded Padlet Black Belt status, placing me in the top 0.1% of Padlet creators worldwide!
I am genuinely delighted, not just… | J...
I received a lovely surprise email last night telling me I have been awarded Padlet Black Belt status, placing me in the top 0.1% of Padlet creators worldwide!
I am genuinely delighted, not just beca...
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December 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm a @padlet black belt, apparently ;-) www.linkedin.com/posts/joedal...
Here is a summary of my latest vibe coding experiment: building a simple web app that turns language into animated GIFs for teaching word order and sentence structure. www.linkedin.com/pulse/gifmyt...
GIFMYTEXT: A Vibe-Coded Web Tool for Teaching Word Order and Sentence Structure
To carry on my vibe coding adventure this week, I decided to have a go at building a simple web app for creating animated GIFs to support word order and sentence structure in language lessons. I wante...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Here is a summary of my latest vibe coding experiment: building a simple web app that turns language into animated GIFs for teaching word order and sentence structure. www.linkedin.com/pulse/gifmyt...
In case you missed it, I have launched a new four-part webinar series on Language Teaching with AI, running in February 2026.
December 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In case you missed it, I have launched a new four-part webinar series on Language Teaching with AI, running in February 2026.
Here is a summary of my recent experience of vibe coding my own Chrome extension, which I decided to call My Productivity Dashboard. www.linkedin.com/pulse/vibe-c...
Vibe Coding a Chrome Extension: Building My Productivity Dashboard
After my Language Show presentation on vibe coding this year, I started wondering how far this approach could really go. Could it be used to build something complex, personal, and genuinely useful rat...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Here is a summary of my recent experience of vibe coding my own Chrome extension, which I decided to call My Productivity Dashboard. www.linkedin.com/pulse/vibe-c...
Hi everyone. I’ve been contacted by the British Council on behalf of colleagues from the Latvian Ministry of Education, who will be in London during BETT (19–21 January).
December 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Hi everyone. I’ve been contacted by the British Council on behalf of colleagues from the Latvian Ministry of Education, who will be in London during BETT (19–21 January).
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I am really pleased to be launching a brand new, fully updated four-part webinar series exploring how AI can enhance listening, speaking, reading and writing in the languages classroom. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-t...
Language Teaching with AI: Enhancing Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing
Join Joe Dale for a 4-part series exploring AI tools for language teaching. Learn practical, time-saving strategies for all key skills
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December 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I am really pleased to be launching a brand new, fully updated four-part webinar series exploring how AI can enhance listening, speaking, reading and writing in the languages classroom. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-t...
I am really pleased to be launching a brand new, fully updated four-part webinar series exploring how AI can enhance listening, speaking, reading and writing in the languages classroom. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-t...
Language Teaching with AI: Enhancing Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing
Join Joe Dale for a 4-part series exploring AI tools for language teaching. Learn practical, time-saving strategies for all key skills
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December 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I am really pleased to be launching a brand new, fully updated four-part webinar series exploring how AI can enhance listening, speaking, reading and writing in the languages classroom. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-t...
Here is a summary of the presentation 'AImagination Station: Sparking Language Creativity in the EFL Class' delivered by Dimitris Primalis this morning. www.linkedin.com/pulse/aimagi...
AImagination Station: Sparking Language Creativity in the EFL Class
This morning I was delighted to watch the webinar "AImagination Station: Sparking Language Creativity in the EFL Class," presented by Dimitris Primalis for Burlington Books. Dimitris is an M.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Here is a summary of the presentation 'AImagination Station: Sparking Language Creativity in the EFL Class' delivered by Dimitris Primalis this morning. www.linkedin.com/pulse/aimagi...
Here is a summary of my fourth and final session in the 4 part webinar series 'AI for Language Teachers: A Practical Skills-Based Approach' This session looked at how to use AI for practising writing and receiving adaptive feedback. www.linkedin.com/pulse/lingua...
Linguai 2025 – AI for Language Teachers: Writing with AI
For the fourth and final webinar in my four part webinar series 'AI for Language Teachers: A Practical Skills-Based Approach: Writing with AI' I focused on showing how to use AI for practising writing...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Here is a summary of my fourth and final session in the 4 part webinar series 'AI for Language Teachers: A Practical Skills-Based Approach' This session looked at how to use AI for practising writing and receiving adaptive feedback. www.linkedin.com/pulse/lingua...
Here is a summary of the presentation 'Harnessing AI to Empower Language Learning for the new GCSE' I delivered today for the the MFL trainee teachers at University College London. www.linkedin.com/pulse/harnes...
Harnessing AI to Empower Language Learning for the new GCSE
This morning, I was delighted to work with the MFL trainee teachers at University College London (UCL) for a 90-minute webinar on 'Harnessing AI to Empower Language Learning for the new GCSE'. As a fo...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Here is a summary of the presentation 'Harnessing AI to Empower Language Learning for the new GCSE' I delivered today for the the MFL trainee teachers at University College London. www.linkedin.com/pulse/harnes...
Here is a summary of the session 'The Wow Factor: Creating a New GCSE Languages Lesson with AI' which I delivered today at the Beyond the Language Barrier CPD at Bradford Grammar School. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wow-fa...
The Wow Factor: Creating a New GCSE Languages Lesson with AI
This morning, I delivered the session, 'The Wow Factor: Creating a New GCSE Languages Lesson with AI', at the Beyond the Language Barrier CPD conference at Bradford Grammar School. I began by setting ...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here is a summary of the session 'The Wow Factor: Creating a New GCSE Languages Lesson with AI' which I delivered today at the Beyond the Language Barrier CPD at Bradford Grammar School. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wow-fa...
Here is a summary of the presentation I delivered today at the NCLE AI Symposium in central London 'Reinforcing GCSE Vocabulary through AI-Generated Stories and Music'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/reinfo...
Reinforcing GCSE Vocabulary through AI-Generated Stories and Music
Today, I was honoured to take part in the NCLE AI Symposium in central London, where I delivered my session, 'Reinforcing GCSE Vocabulary through AI-Generated Stories and Music'. My aim was to show a ...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Here is a summary of the presentation I delivered today at the NCLE AI Symposium in central London 'Reinforcing GCSE Vocabulary through AI-Generated Stories and Music'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/reinfo...
Off to Central London for today's hybrid NCLE AI Symposium and really looking forward to it. It's a brilliant programme, packed with colleagues doing cutting edge work across AI and language education.
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Off to Central London for today's hybrid NCLE AI Symposium and really looking forward to it. It's a brilliant programme, packed with colleagues doing cutting edge work across AI and language education.
Here is a summary of the cross-curricular INSET I delivered today at Dartford Grammar School 'AI that saves time: practical classroom tools you can use tomorrow'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-sav...
AI that saves time: practical classroom tools they can use tomorrow
This afternoon, I was absolutely delighted to spend time with the staff at Dartford Grammar School for an INSET session focused on 'AI that saves time: practical classroom tools they can use tomorrow'...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Here is a summary of the cross-curricular INSET I delivered today at Dartford Grammar School 'AI that saves time: practical classroom tools you can use tomorrow'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-sav...
Here is a summary of @sophiamav.bsky.social's wonderful webinar yesterday 'Ahead of the curve? How L2 students use AI (while institutions continue to adapt...)'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ahead-...
Ahead of the curve? How L2 students use AI (while institutions continue to adapt...)
Yesterday afternoon, I watched a fascinating webinar delivered by Sophia Mavridi, Senior Lecturer in digital pedagogy at De Montfort University in Leicester, for Express Publishing. The webinar was ti...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Here is a summary of @sophiamav.bsky.social's wonderful webinar yesterday 'Ahead of the curve? How L2 students use AI (while institutions continue to adapt...)'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ahead-...
Here is a summary of a 3 and a half hour INSET I delivered for languages teachers at Oaks Collegiate Trust on Friday 'Speaking in the New GCSE: Practical, inclusive AI workflows'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/speaki...
Speaking in the New GCSE: Practical, inclusive AI workflows
On Friday, I delivered a three-and-a-half-hour INSET session for 21 language teachers from the Oaks Collegiate Trust. The day was titled Speaking in the New GCSE: Practical, inclusive AI workflows, an...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Here is a summary of a 3 and a half hour INSET I delivered for languages teachers at Oaks Collegiate Trust on Friday 'Speaking in the New GCSE: Practical, inclusive AI workflows'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/speaki...
A summary of two online presentations I did last Thursday for the iQTS and PGTA trainee teachers at the University of Buckingham 'Adapting new technologies to empower teaching, learning and assessment'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/adapti...
Adapting new technologies to empower teaching, learning and assessment - University of Buckingham PGCE
On Thursday last week, I ran two online sessions for the University of Buckingham, both focused on adapting new technologies to empower teaching, learning, and assessment. These took place on 20 Novem...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A summary of two online presentations I did last Thursday for the iQTS and PGTA trainee teachers at the University of Buckingham 'Adapting new technologies to empower teaching, learning and assessment'. www.linkedin.com/pulse/adapti...
I'm thrilled the recording of my recent session for the British Council TeachingEnglish Online Conference is now available on the Teaching English Asia - British Council page! www.facebook.com/share/v/19pr...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm thrilled the recording of my recent session for the British Council TeachingEnglish Online Conference is now available on the Teaching English Asia - British Council page! www.facebook.com/share/v/19pr...
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Suno songs
A couple of weekends ago I attended the Association for Language Learning Online Conference and was reminded of Suno , the AI app which w...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
New blogpost: Suno songs changing-phase.blogspot.com/2025/11/suno...
This afternoon, I delivered the third session in my four-part series, 'AI for Language Teachers: A Practical Skills-Based Approach,' focusing on 'AI for Language Teachers: Reading with AI'
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This afternoon, I delivered the third session in my four-part series, 'AI for Language Teachers: A Practical Skills-Based Approach,' focusing on 'AI for Language Teachers: Reading with AI'
I'm really pleased to share that the Beyond the Language Barrier CPD Day at Bradford Grammar School on Saturday 29th November is shaping up to be a fantastic event. www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the...
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I'm really pleased to share that the Beyond the Language Barrier CPD Day at Bradford Grammar School on Saturday 29th November is shaping up to be a fantastic event. www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the...
This morning I delivered a session titled 'Harnessing AI to Empower Language Learning for the new GCSE' to the MFL PGCErs at the University of Oxford, kindly hosted by their tutor
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November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This morning I delivered a session titled 'Harnessing AI to Empower Language Learning for the new GCSE' to the MFL PGCErs at the University of Oxford, kindly hosted by their tutor
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Well, I've been busy again today producing more detailed summaries of the AI and EdTech related talks from The Language Show! Check them out here!
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Well, I've been busy again today producing more detailed summaries of the AI and EdTech related talks from The Language Show! Check them out here!