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EVO Moderator Training 2007-2008
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Dafne
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 | ESP/EFL teacher at Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela. I belong to the EVO coordination team, and I am a proud Webhead since 2002. All my courses are blended or completely online. I will be co-moderating with Teresa and a bunch of wonderful people our fifth round of Becoming a Webhead. Yahoo ID = dygonza, Skype ID = dafnegon939 |
Carla Arena
 | Hi, guys. It's a big pleasure to be back to the Moderators training session. Last year, I was a participant eager to learn more to do my best in our session "Blogging for Beginners". This year I'm back to learn more with this group. I'll be co-moderating the "Blogging for Educators" with a wonderful group of educators around the globe. I'm also in the EVO coordinating team and really excited about sharing what I've learned with everybody here. I'm an EFL teacher and teacher trainer at the Binational Center Casa Thomas Jefferson in Brasília, Brazil. Presently, I'm working on an online Listening course for Casa Thomas Jefferson as I'm living for two years in Key West, Florida. Skype ID = carlaarena |
Gladys Baya
 | I'm an EFL teacher and teacher trainer in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I'm also an online facilitator for IEARN (project-based learning with tellecolaborative projects). Since Daf and Tere cast a spell on me when I joined their BAW-05, I've been as active as possible at WebheadsInAction, founded Learning with Computers and co-moderated Blogging 4 Beginners (EVO'07). This time I'll be contributing to Blogging for Educators. If you'd like to see a bit of what I've been doing with my classes recently, visit http://www.pageflakes.com/gladysbaya. My Yahoo ID and Skype ID is gladysbaya. I'm also gladysbaya on Windows MSN. |
Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
 | Hi--I'm a part of the Coordination Team, and have been working with EVO since 2002. Though retired from CSU, Sacramento, in California, I still do some consulting. My current work involves a new project for adult education online through OTAN and US Dept of Education, and a new edition of the Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive CDLive Action English InteractiveLearning Languages through TechnologyCALL Environments: Research, Practice & Critical IssuesYahoo ID and Skype ID are both ehansonsmi. . Our little production company of teachers (Command Performance Language Institute) will also be putting out a second CD of with 12 new lessons. I came out with two books this year: (ed. with Sarah Rilling for TESOL), and the 2nd edition of (with Joy Egbert for TESOL). My homepage: Computers for Education. My technology blog: Virtual=Real. |
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Paula Emmert
 | Paula Emmert has taught ESL/EFL for 18 years throughout the United States and overseas. She is currently living in Brussels, Belgium and is a part of the EVO Coordination Team. She recently taught at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia as well as at George Mason University where she taught Applied Linguistics online for the Graduate School of Education's FAST TRAIN program. She is currently a member of the CALL-IS Steering Committee and will be acting as the lead coordinator for the Electronic Village Fairs in the Electronic Village in NYC. She moderated the Creating WebQuests EVO session in 2006 and co-moderated Teaching with PowerPoint in 2007 along with Chrisitine Bauer-Ramazani, Sandy Wagner, Roger Drury, Jessica Noyes and Kent Masueda. Yahoo ID: Emmert4 Skype: paulaemmert |
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Moira Hunter
 | My name is Moira Hunter and I'm one of the EVO Coordinators for 2007-08. Last year I moderated the BAW07 session and took particular pleasure in organising and moderating the Week of Voice (Week 4). Unfortunately, I have had to decline the invitation this year but I am extremely privileged to mentor the EVO "Getting the Most out of Web 2.0 for ESP" session. I am really interested in learning more about this session and am here to help should you experienced people ever need it ;-) For those who do not know me, I teach f2f in two universities of architecture and engineering on degree and master programmes in Paris France and teach corporate employees online throughout the globe. At present, I am working on the instructional design of an e-learning programme incorporating asynchronous and synchrounous learning for an international corporation which requires a blended approach (f2f, asynchrounous and real-time online). My skype ID is moirahunter and Yahoo ID is moira_hunter2005 |
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Leticia Esteves
 | Hi everyone! I am an ESP/EFL teacher at Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela. I am interested in Curriculum Design,Program Evaluation, Materials Development,Teacher Trainning, and of course Teaching with Technology. I teach blended courses of English to students of Architecture and Urban Planning at USB, and I am currently involved in the process of evaluating and redesigning the English Program for students of Architecture and Urbanism at USB with Prof. Dafne González (The one responsible for making me fall in love with the use of web tools in LT). This is my first time moderating an EVO session. I will be co-moderating with Rubena St Louis, and our Session for EVO 2008 deals with the topic of Lesson Planning following the Principles of Course Design. Yahoo ID = letisoles, Skype ID = lesteves2 |
Susan Marandi
 | Hi everyone! I'm currently head of the English Department at Al-Zahra (aka Azzahra) University in Tehran, Iran, where we've recently established the first CALL course to ever be held in Iran! Yay!! :-) This is my third year working with the EVO coordinators, and I still feel that I'm learning way more than I'm helping! I look forward to learning and working with you all this year! My Yahoo and Skype IDs are both: susanmarandi. :-) |
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Ana Maria Menezes
 | My name is Ana Maria and I´m a teacher and coordinator at a Language Institute in Brazil. I was introduced to e-learning by Carla Arena and Erika Cruvinel and have been an enthusiatic blogger since then. I´m very eager to learn new things and also share what I´ve learned so far. Hope to be of help in the next EVO. My MSN, Yahoo and Skype IDs are: anamariacult |
Chris Jones
 | My name is Chris Jones, and I've been helping coordinate EVO since 2003. I'm currently teaching English to women at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. I've only been here a little over a year, and I'm still enjoying many new and interesting experiences about the country and the culture. My yahoo ID is edtec2002, but skype is blocked in the UAE. |
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Barbara Dieu
 | Hello, I'm Barbara Dieu (a.k.a. Bee or Bee Kerouac in SL). I have been involved in ELT for more than 30 years. I am presently teaching EFL at the Franco-Brazilian secondary school in Sao Paulo and am also the BrazTesol EduTech SIG Coordinator. My Skype ID is beedieu. Since I went online in 1997, I have participated in a number of international collaborative projects online both with my classes and for PD. I co-moderated the 2005 EVO session on Blogs and the 2007 session on Social Media in ELT, which we will be repeating this year, with some variations. |
Cristina Costa
 | EFL teacher and learning technologist. Used to involve students in ICT activities. Currently she is working at the University of Salford, helping academic staff in efficient use of edu-technology. She believes blogging is one of the most engaging strategies to involve students in collaborative learning opportunities. her skype: navysternchen ; YM: cristinacosta_pt and MSN: navysternchen@hotmail.com. She also has a new site / eportfolio: http://knowmansland.com/learningpath |
Illya Arnet-Clark
 | My name is Illya and I am originally from the USA but have been living in Switzerland for years. My first connection to e-learning was an online course I took through London University. There I met Cristina Costa, who first introduced me to blogs and other online ommunities. Since then I have been following developments in this area and experimenting with online tools in my teaching and teacher training for the Pedagogical College in Lucerne. Last year I attended the Openweb Publishing session and the PPT session, and am thrilled to now be a co-moderator of such a session myself. This year I will be co-moderating the Social Media session. Skype ID: illyacelena; http://illyasoet.wordpress.com |
Geoff Taylor
 | I teach adult EFL, previously abroad in Europe, Egypt, and the USA, and now for some years in the UK at St Clare's, Oxford. I was a participant on the EVO Podcasting 06 and EVO Video 07 courses, and got a huge amount of benefit out of both courses, so if I can help other people out in any way, that would be great. (My student-generated podcast - started during the EVO Podcasting 06 course - continues at http://bardwellroad.podomatic.com/) I'll be helping out where I can on the EVO Video session. What else? I'm a long time Mac user and fan of Apple's iLife creative suite. I have designed web sites (e.g. http://www.stclaresenglish.net/) and am currently studying Web design online with http://www.eclasses.org/ (which I highly recommend). Following Dafne's suggestion, I've started a set of (EVO Video-related) links at http://del.icio.us/gjtaylor99. My Yahoo ID is gjtaylor99. |
Nina Lyulkun
 | It's Nina Lyulkun from Ukraine here now. I am also a teacher of English and sort of co-coordinator on using Moodle platform at the Khmelnitskiy National University. In 2004 I participated in the TESOL "Principles and Practices of Online Teaching" certificate program: PP 108: Creating and Managing a Web-Based Course Management System and PP 109: Designing Interactive Activities for the Web. The website was created as the first attempt of the study. Since the participation in Learning with Computers, Blogging 4 Beginners and BAW07 sessions this year I've been involved into activities using IT for teaching and learning online within our university. The sessions have given an impulse to continue improving my skills in this area. Skype ID: nagora60; Yahoo ID: nagora |
Erika Cruvinel
 | I'm from Brazil and teach English at a Binational Center called Casa Thomas Jefferson. I have been trying out different online tools for some years and I just love what I do. Besides being a teacher, I work with my school website and computer labs. I first attended the EVO in 2006 and fell in love with the brilliant work of the BAW moderators. Then I was a co-moderator for the Blogging4Beginners session 2007 and I will be working together with the Blogging for Educators 2008 team. I've been learning a lot with this group and I'm willing to help others as much as I can. Skype ID erikacruvinel |
Patricia Glogowski
(Patrysha Drechsler in SL)
 | Dear Everyone, My name is Patricia Glogowski (Patrysha Drechsler in SL). I am an ESL Instructor at York University English Language Institute, Toronto, Canada. I am also a blogger, attempting to be a very serious researcher (Second Language Acquisition, CALL, CMC, e-learning, digital literacies, bilingualism/multilingualism), teacher trainer, presenter, volunteer, traveller, photographer, and most recently twitteress. I am always interested in including technology in ESL - creating dynamic, full of fun learning environments and helping students become motivated and life-long language learners! I became a Webhead at the beginning of 2007, and it was one of the best decisions I made in my life :). I met some of the fantastic Webheads in Seattle in March and they all turned to be a lot of fun! I moderated the 2007 EVO Open Webpublishing workshop with Bee, and I am happy to say that we'll be working together again this year. We are also very happy to have the expertise of Illya, Jennifer, Nancy, and Rudolf who will be moderating with us this year. We strongly believe that OUR TEAM ROCKS!!! My Blog (a bit idle as of late): Monitor Hypothesis (http://monitorhypothesis.typepad.com). Looking forward to meeting you all! Patricia |
Denise Guckert
 | Hello all. My name is Denise Guckert. I work at Texas State University-San Marcos with professional development for adult literacy teachers. My favorite area is literacy level ESL, but I also work with teachers of Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and family literacy providers, which include early childhoold teachers, parent educators, and adult educators. I am very happy to be learning more about offering online content and using various technologies. I will be moderating the EVO session "Integrating Technology into Adult ESL." |
Nancy McKeand
 | Hi! My name is Nancy McKeand. I have the privilege of co-moderating Social Media in English Language Teaching with Bee and Patricia, Illya, Jennifer and Rudolf. I did Bee's (and Aaron's and Graham's) 2005 session on blogging and have been hooked ever since. I have been involved in other sessions since 2005 and am always amazed by how much I learn. This is my first time co-moderating,and I am looking forward to it. I teach ESL to adult immigrants in the US now. I have just started this new job, so I haven't figured out how to include technology in it. We offer a combined English/computer class that I don't get to teach but want to investigate. Anyway... I am really happy to be here! |
elderbob Brannan
 | (Elderbob Beaumont in SL) A bit about myself...Well, I'm retired (yea, right). I am the Open Weekends Coordinator at Knowplace (http://knowplace.ca) (which also makes me a Knowbuddy). I am a proud Webhead and Moodler and, for lack of a better term, an infopreneur. I am an eldercoach helping retired folks figure out what to do for the next forty or fifty years of their lives. I like to think of myself as a geriatrigeek, exploring technology and remote education of adults. I am also a glass blower and a silver smith. I'm a grand father and a great grand father. I'm a happily (usually) married man. I have been a German linguist, an American spy, a peanut grader, drummer in a rock band, cowboy tech, and truck driver, and much more. I'm an early adapter and a late bloomer....and most of all, I am still trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. You can find out more about me by visiting my portal, Elderville |
Rubena St.Louis
 | I'm Rubena and I work, along with my two very good friends,Leticia and Dafne, at Simon Bolivar University. Unlike them, I teach a reading programme, English for Science and Technology, to a very special group of undergraduate students. Since 2003, thanks to Dafne, I've been incorporating web-based tools into my course and now it's blended with audio and video components, too. Who said reading was just words? I also teach Language Teaching Methodologies and Materials Evaluation and Design in our graduate programme. I'm also very interested in learner autonomy and the way in which materials can foster this.This will be my first as a moderator along with Leticia and I hope to learn a lot so that I will be able to share the little that I know with other teachers out there. So, I really look forward to meeting and sharing my experiences with all of you. Yahoo ID = slrubena2003, Skype ID = Bena1962 |
Sandy Wagner
 | Hi Everyone. I am happy to be back this year for another session of Teaching With PowerPoint and working with the EVO Moderators. I am Assistant Professor of Faculty Development at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey Bay where I develop and facilitate staff and faculty training in areas such as task-based instruction, language acquistion, and technology applications for language learning. I am also chair-elect for TESOL CALL-IS and was a member of the Electronic Village team for the past two years. I am happy to be facilitating with Roger Drury and Jennifer Brown, with guest appearances by Christine Bauer-Ramazani and our mentor, Paula Emmert. |
Jennifer Verschoor
 | My name is Jennifer Verschoorand I´m from Buenos Aires. I´ve been interested in integrating e-tools in my classes since 2004. This year I will be co-moderating the session Social Media in ELT with Bee, Patricia, Nancy, Illya and Rudolf. An incredible team!!I have many blogs and love teaching with technology. I have a school blogand also private students blogsand a Business English blog. EVO has changed the way I teach and my students are very happy for it. I strongly believe that without Professional Development it´s impossible to become better teachers. That´s why I created Professional development for Teachers I´m very happy to be once again part of this unforgettable experience. Skype ID: jenverschoor; Yahoo ID: jenverschoor. |
Sergio Mazzarelli
 | I teach English at Kwassui Women's College in Nagasaki, Japan. Earlier this year I benefited a lot from taking part in EVO Video 07, so I will be glad to help others next year as an EVO Video 08 moderator. Click here <http://evovideo07.wikispaces.com/Sergio+Mazzarelli> to see a 7,000-word chronicle of my experience during EVO Video 07. Click here <http://www.youtube.com/user/orandazaka> to see my students' video slideshows on YouTube. Click here <http://www.deepmoat.com/moodle/> to see a site I created for teachers who are interested in video slideshows. I look forward to this training session. Thank you very much in advance for all the advice you will be giving me. My Yahoo ID is smazzare. |
Ryan Detwiler
| photo | Hi Everyone, My name's Ryan, and I'll be co-moderating the EVO Video session along with Sergio, Geoff, Nicolas, Mike, and Elizabeth. I recently graduated from the Academy of Art University with an MFA in Motion Pictures/Television. While in school I worked with writers Natasha Haugnes and Beth Maher to produce several video-based English lessons. If you'd like to see some of them, please visit http://www.eslvideo.com and click on the Software tab. I'm excited about this next session. I think that there are many different types of slide shows that one can produce -- travel logs, documentaries, personal profiles -- and I think that we're all going to have a lot of fun working through it. |
Patricia Dam
 | Hi Everyone! I am Patricia from New York. I have been teaching ESL for 20 years. I have taught grades 6 through 12. I am currently teaching ESOL Adult Education, Literacy/Beginners, during the day and ESOL at the college level at night. I will be co-moderating EVO session in January 2008, with Sang Kim and Cynthia Wiseman on the theme of NYC and online virtual tours. This is my first experience as a moderator and EVO. I hope to gain a great deal of knowledge from all of you. I am hoping to keep up with all of you. |
Jane Petring
 | I'm an ESL/EFL teacher at Collège Édouard-Montpetit and coordinator at the satellite campus École Nationale d'Aérotechnique which offers programs in aviation. I have taught all levels of ESL over the last 30 years in a wide variety of contexts including Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. I enrolled in my first EVO in 2004 and moderated the 2006 session on Collaborative Blogging. This year I joined the Coordination team and I will be mentoring the Blogging4Education EVO. I'm the co-author of Prospect and Prospect Grammar, text-books used in college/university programs in Quebec and the author of Insight and Insight Grammar which should be published this November! |
Sang Kyung Kim
 | Hi! As a Computer Assisted Language Learning coordinator at Pratt Institute, I have committed myself to creative effective technology-enhanced curriculum for ESL. I received my Ed.D. and Ed.M. from Teachers College, Columbia University in Instructional Technology and Media and my Master’s degree in TESOL from SUNY-at Stony Brook. My research includes creating metacognitive instructional tools for developing students’ evaluation skills, forming supportive online learning communities, and creative e-portfolios for ESL students. I have also concentrated on exploring teachers’ perceptions of the use of technology and of collaboration. |
Cynthia Wiseman
 | Hi, I've been teaching ESL/EFL for over thirty years. I am currently finishing up my EdD at Teachers College, focusing on second language writing assessment. I look forward to working with my co-moderators on this project. |
Kent Matsueda
 | Hello everyone, I am a currently-unemployed Computer Assisted Language Learning teacher. :-) I have just returned to America after almost five years in Japan teaching at the Tamagawa School and Kanazawa Technical College. I have designed and taught distance-learning, conversation, and CALL classes in Japan. I'm temporarily living in Las Vegas. I'm going to be joining the "Teaching with PowerPoint" crew for a second year and I'm really excited to be working with some great folks. I have a lot of experience using Macs, multimedia and with cross-platform issues, so if you have any questions, please send them my way. |
Buthaina Al-Othman
 | Hi! I'm an EFL and ESP instructor at the Language Center of Kuwait University. I have been using blended teaching and learning approaches for my classes, since I started my teaching career in 2001. I have a MS in TESOL from the University at Albany, SUNY ; I have been a Webhead, since 2002, and became a member of the TESOL Electronic Village Online, (EVO) Coordinating Team, in spring 2004. I also belong to the TESOL Technology Advisory Committee, (TAC). This EVO 2008, I'm co-moderating with, Christine Parkhurst, Debby Lee, and Jen MacArthur the session, Getting the Most Out of Web.0 for ESP. My YM ID and Skype name are buthaina_3 |
Susan Burg
 | I teach CALL English at the Università degli Studi di Firenze in Italy as well as other institutions. I began participating with the Webheads in 2002 and thanks to the group's spirit and encouragement, in 2006 I went on to get my Masters in e-learning from the university where I teach. This year I will be co-moderating for EVO Teaching with Powerpoint. Yahoo ID = susaneburg, Skype ID = susanellynb, http://susaneb.wordpress.com/ |
Anna Koorey
| photo | I teach English to adult migrants in Sydney, Australia. I teach in a blended mode, providing the computer-based component. I also have a totally online class of migrants who settled in various parts of New South Wales. I have been involved with Webheads since 2004, first as a participant, then as a co-moderator for Collaborative Blogging in EFL/ESL (2006), E-assessment tools for language teaching (2007), and presently for Exploring the Big Apple, Byte by Byte. Yahoo Messenger: aas56, Skype: aasydney. |
Vance Stevens
 | I'm a long-time Webhead, ESL and computing lecturer, and CALL and CMC enthusiast. I can get busy and appear catatonic from a distance online, but if you ask me for anything I am always willing to help, esp. with EVO. Skype: vancestev YM: vance_stevens Twitter: vances Second Life: Webhead Link |
Lee Baber
 | My name is Lee Baber. I graduated from University of Maryland in Interdisciplinary Studies / Production Management. I worked for the University helping to manage the Recording Studio, as an audio engineer and editor for the Ethnomusicology Department, the University live events, and with National Geographic and General Electric producing audio for presentations and photographer feature tours. I am currently in the James Madison University Educational Technology Graduate Program working on a 21st Century aligned cognate. For the last 8 years, I have been working for Rockingham County Public Schools as a Computer Literacy teacher, playing professional banjo with Ben "Cooter" Jones and Cross Creek, and working with Worldbridges. I am co-manager for EdTechTalk's Teachers Teaching Teachers show and Youthvoices network. Skype: lbaber Twitter: leebaber SL: Laurie Carson Y!M: |
Mary Hillis
 | Hello! My name is Mary Hillis and I'm an EFL teacher in Japan. I first participated in EVO in 2006 as a member of BaW. Then, I became involved in Learning with Computers and in the 2007 EVO session Blogging for Beginners. This year I'm looking forward to being a part of the moderating team for Blogging for Educators; many thanks to Gladys, Carla, Erika, Claudia for teaching me so much about blogs and online tools and for having me as part of their team!! You can see my professional development and class blogs at http://www.maryhillis.blogspot.com http://www.gethiptolearningenglishi.motime.com Yahoo ID maryehillis Skype maryehillis |
Ma. Fernanda Molla
 | Hi! I'm an argentine drama teacher eager to share ideas and a 20 year experience with people all over the world. I strongly believe actors and teachers have a lot in common and I'm actually devoting most of my energy to the training of teachers in acting techniques to activate classes. It's my first year at EVO and I'm working hard to catch up... http://mfermolla@hotmail.com |
Carla Raguseo
 | I am an EFL teacher and Computer Lab coordinator at ARICANA, a Binational Center in Rosario, Argentina. I am also involved in the development of online and blended language courses on Moodle. I am a member of the Blogging for Beginners Team. http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org |
Teresa Almeida d'Eça
 | I majored in English and have a Master's in American Studies from the Open University of Lisbon, Portugal. I've been an EFL teacher for 30+ years and have taught at all levels. I live and teach in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal. For the past five years I've been teaching 5th and 6th grades (1st & 2nd year EFLers). I love teaching and find it an even more challenging task since the arrival of ICTs. You're welcome to visit my two latest teacher-student blogs: Have Fun with English! 2 and CALL Lessons. I am a member of APPI (Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Inglês), TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) and the Webheads in Action. I've been coordinating and co-moderating BaW with Dafne González since 2004. If you'd like to know more about me and my work, please visit my Web site. You can contact me at tmvaz@mail.telepac.pt. |
David Winet
| photo | Photo is in the YG EVO Mods. Teacher in California. Long-time interest in online ESL. Founder/director of StudyCom (http://www.study.com, a free school for online ESL learners. Happy to be a member of Webheads and have enjoyed meeting others online and in person at TESOLs. My email: dwinet@transbay.net, Yahoo ID: not_ants. |
Laine Marshall
 | Jumping in to work with ExploringtheBigApple group; also as Webhead helper in BaW08 . Working for TESOL as EVO Liaison (team leader) for the convention. Day job is as language teacher educator at Long Island University in NY. Participated in EVO 2006 and 2007. Email: helaine.marshall@liu.edu Skype and Yahoo! ID = lainemarsh |
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