Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning
6th Annual MoodleMoot Virtual Conference (MMVC11-17)
August 4-6, 2017
Presenters of MMVC17
Dr. Nellie Deutsch (Ed.D) is an education technology relationship-based mentor to educators worldwide. She’s on EDMedia executive committee. Nellie has been teaching English in high school and at the college level for over 35 years and integrating technology into face-to-face programs since 1992. She organizes free online events such as Moodle & Second Life MOOCs, online conferences (Connecting Online and Moodle MOOTs), Blog Festivals, EFLtalks for free. She is passionate about using technologies such as Moodle, WizIQ, PresentMe, Slidespeech, Screencast-o-matic, and google drive to promote active learning and teaching as a way to learn.
Daniela Cuccurullo is a contract professor of English language at the and of didactics and multimedia teaching for in-service and trainee teachers at the University in Naples. She is also secondary school teacher of English, teacher trainer, e-tutor, forum moderator and author of learning objects and digital contents. She is the coordinator of the TESOL Italy/Naples group, a member of the Executive Committee of TESOL Italy and editor of the TESOL Italy newsletter. She uses both traditional, face-to-face methods and e-learning paths in blended training. She is a member of National Committees for both language and multimedia teaching. Engaged in research on ESLT via CALL/MALL/MALU, she is the author of essays on didactics, English literature, reviews and translations. She has published articles in magazines, books, and websites, and has given many talks and presentations in English and Italian at national and international conferences and seminars. She is the lead teacher on behalf of Italy for the Creative Classrooms Lab project coordinated by European Schoolnet. She has four Masters in multimedia teaching, e-learning and e-tutoring, with particular reference to multimodality and emerging issues; teaching technologies and new target groups (primary and teachers of non-linguistic subjects).She is now working with CLIL as a new approach to language learning and has developed CLIL materials and organized onsite and online teacher-training courses to enhance CLIL methodology. She has planned, coordinated and taught CLIL courses at an international, national and local levels.
Letizia Cinganotto is a researcher at the National Institution for Innovation, Documentation, Educational Research, Italy. Passionate about CLIL, language teaching, technology enhanced learning, she has been working for the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, dealing with the upper secondary school reform, in particular coordinating CLIL projects involving school networks all over Italy.
She got a PhD in linguistics, three masters in e-learning and a master in English Language Teaching as well. She has published articles and presented papers at national and international conferences.
Rob Howard is the owner of Online Language Center, founder and partner at Business Language Training Institute and founder of EFLtalks. He is a teacher, writer and frequent worldwide speaker discussing Business English, Teacher Development, teaching online and about using technology and images. He is president of the new BRAZ-TESOL BESIG, a member of the IATEFL BESIG online team, Online Event Coordinator and interviewer for the Visual Arts Circle and co-founder of the Independent Authors & Publishers Group. He lives in both Brazil and Poland.
Roy Andersen has spent 30 years researching into what intelligence is, how children learn and how school works. He is deeply concerned we are not preparing the child of today for the heavily dominated artificial world they will live and work in, and so the dramatic social changes they will experience. He lectures and gives workshops designed to enable teachers to teach better and students to leave school with higher reasoning capability. He is the author of 7 books that have gained worldwide acclaim.
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My name is Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat and I am passionate about transforming English Learning professionals into confident, effective and successful business communicators in English.
I do this through my online business, English with a Twist (EWAT).
I spent 20 years in the finance world before retraining as a Business English Trainer in 2010.
I am the living example that a new, flourishing career can start in your mid-40s and that you’re never too old to learn new things like embracing the online world, social media and becoming a teacherpreneur.
Sibel Taskin Simsek is actively involved as a member of the Online Learning Support Project and Webinar teams at the School of Languages, Sabanci University, Istanbul, TURKEY. She has professional certificates including "Teaching English with Technology” offered by The Consultants-E. Her interests include technology integration into teaching, MOOCs, learner development and motivation. Her blog songstoteachenglish has recently won the Edublog Awards 2014 “Best Educational Use of Media”.
Julie Pratten is originally from the UK, currently living in Turkey. After teaching both business and general English in 20 countries or more, including Brazil, Germany, Lithuania and Paraguay, I entered the world of finance via the Czech Republic, after I designed a series of courses for the Czech National Bank. I have since written several business and finance titles, including ‘Absolute Financial English’, the main course book for the Cambridge ESOL ‘ICFE examination’ and ‘Absolute Financial English’ (Delta).
Nowadays I live in Turkey, with my husband, two cats, dogs and chickens. Although I live in a rural setting, just a stone’s throw away from the sea, I provide language consultancy for several financial institutions and deliver courses at the Banks Association of Turkey and the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. My current interests include developing mobile applications for EAP and recent applications include ‘Brighton Study Kit’ and ‘Academic Flip Words’. I have just set up the independent platform ‘Academic Study Kit’. Currently, I am working on the business English course book ‘Good Business English’; this modular course uses sustainable and ethical business models as vehicles for teaching business English. In my opinion, this is the only way forward.
In September I set up Heart ELT, a project aimed at establishing a school for Syrian children living in a refugee camp in Iraq.
Susan Brodar was born in London and brought up bilingual English / Italian. After attending school in London until 15, she finished her British education at Munich International School. There she started teaching Italian at evening classes aged only 17 while studying Mass Communications and Journalism at Munich University, Germany. She continued teaching parallel to interpreting at trade fairs and business meetings as well doing translations. Today she is a freelance English language teacher both online and face-to-face. She also creates online English courses for independent learners. With over 39 years of teaching mainly English but also other languages, she has acquired experience in teaching a range of ages from toddlers to adults, with obviously varying methods, including university undergraduates, postgraduates and teacher trainees. She also prepares students for a variety of certifications. Passionate in teaching languages, she is constantly researching engaging ways of teaching all ages and believes in full-immersion.
Doris Molero (Ed.D) a.k.a Pionia Destiny combines teaching as a way to learn, education technology, and teaching for peace. Passionate about language learning, instructional design and related educational technologies, specifically 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments for situated, experiential learning. She has been in Second life since 2007. Back then she was invited to participate by the Webheads in Action in EVO Village, since then she has been part of different communities of practice like VWBPE, Camelot project, Edunation, NANEC, Virtual Pioneers, Virtlantis, and different roleplay communities as Avilion, Sylvhara and Artstonia. She has brought her students to SL for different projects. You can visit her URBE EFL Center in Edunation. Together with Nancy and Nellie organized the first SLMOOC in 2013.
http://www.doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com http://pioniadestiny.blogspot.com
Judy Wong is a performing artist, a visual artist, a writer and foremost an English teacher to speakers of other languages. Her extensive background, spanning over fifty years, in the arts is the basis of her unique teaching style. She is currently an Adjunct Faculty at a PACE University in New York City, USA. When she isn’t teaching at the colleges, she has an active private student practice and has been known to occasionally collaborate with her international colleagues in Armenia and Croatia. She is an active EFLtalker and on the Advisory Board of EFLtalks. Judy holds a BS in Liberal Arts /Teaching Academics through the Arts and a MA in TESOL from the New School University in NYC, USA. She is a member of NYS TESOL, TESOL International and IATEFL.
www.linkedin.com/in/judywongrteddi www.judysworld.edublogs.org/about/
“We are teachers as well as students and our students are our teachers”.
Charles Goodger Originally from London, I am the founder of FunSongs Education and am an English teacher, coursebook writer, teacher trainer, composer and entrepreneur. I have a degree in French and Spanish from London University and a RSA TEFL certificate. As well as writing material for FunSongs, I have permanent tenure as a Collaboratore Esperto Linguistico at Bologna University in Italy. I have been a plenary speaker at international ELT conferences and held workshops and seminars in China, India, Lithuania, Russia, Latvia, France, Germany, Italy, Estonia, Israel, Spain and England. I currently live in Italy.
Poonam Vohra has a postgraduate degree in Economics and Education and has been teaching to the senior school students for the last more than 25 years.She maintains high degree of honesty and integrity. Has absolute clarity about her strengths, capabilities and commitments. She skillfully manages her emotions, impulses and resources. She has an open mind and flexibility in handling changes and new ideas. She works with cooperation and faith. She believes in providing best of the services to the best of her capability. Her objective is to be a life long learner.
Maha Hassan is the founder/Ceo of Maha ESL Community. She is also Head of English Dept. at the Arab Academy for Training Technology. She aims at helping teachers believe in, achieve and sustain Professional Development. She has been working as a Teacher Trainer for more than 15 years. She has given presentations at Nile Tesol 2015, LIF (Language in Focus) Turkey, 2015, Global Education Online Conference 2012 and 2014 as well as at Reinventing the Classroom and Learning Revolution Online Conferences 2014. She has also given a Poster Session at Nile Tesol Conference 2014. She also had a paper on teaching Adults published on Howtolearn.com . You can get access to this article through her blog: teachingenglishcafe.blogspot.com/ as well as an article on Nile Tesol Newsletter, 2014. She has also been responsible for setting and adjusting curriculums to suit all stages. During her working experience she has mostly been responsible for choosing curriculums, appraising them and training teachers how to get through them.
Ludmila Smirnova is a Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY, USA, where she has taught for the past 15 years. At the Mount, she offers courses in Curricular Planning, Psychology of Learning, Methods of Teaching and Teaching with Technology. She has become increasingly recognized for her leadership in the application of emerging Internet technologies to education. She has run numerous workshops on the application of Smart Technologies and Web 2.0 tools to the college and primary/secondary classrooms. Prior to coming to the Mount, Dr. Smirnova was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Russia, where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnova was known for her work in innovative approaches to teaching. Beyond the seventy publications based upon her work in Russia, Dr. Smirnova has written for and presented to a growing list of professional audiences in the U.S. and abroad. She is a co-designer and co-facilitator of the Moodle for Teachers workshops at IT4ALL.
Harshita Kapoor is the co-founder of Codewizacademy, an e-learning portal designed and developed for teaching Core programming and IT related skills. Before devoting herself to developing pathbreaking modules in e-learning, she has worked as an educationist, being a faculty at prominent educational institutes in the K-12 sector. She was also entrusted with various special assignments such as content reviewing and instructional designing for school learning solutions. She holds a Masters degree in Computer Application. She has also been conferred with various certifications in recognition of her programming skills, such as OCPJP by Oracle. She has a rare distinction of being certified as Cyber Crime Investigator by ASCL, India. This helped her deal with Cyberbullying and challenges related to being online, for school students. She has also conducted several seminars on Cyber Security for students, management and parents at the K-12 level. She is passionate about teaching, mainly programming and related subjects since that is her forte.
I am currently working as Professor and Head in the Department of English in B.S.Abdur Rahman University, Chennai. I teach technical English and business English to engineering students. I served as Visiting Consultant for one semester in Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat in 2008. I am a teacher trainer and have been regularly conducting workshops for teachers of colleges and schools. I am guiding research scholars in the field of ELT and CALL. I have authored three books and nearly 9 articles in refereed journals. I am one of the Editors for International Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) since 2009 and Handbook of Research on Individual Differences in CALL since 2014. I have conducted many projects on developing communication skills with the help of technological tools with students and this presentation will deal with one of them.
Parminder Mitter Chaudhuri is Lecturer,in Food Production and Food Science and Nutrition with over 20 years experience of teaching. She is Ignou Counsellor as well. She has taught in junior and senior sections in school. Now,she is full time Lecturer in graduate college. She is the President of Women Cell in the College.
She is a Qualified Learning Facilitator,from Lausanne School of Hotel Management, Switzerland. She has a Train The Trainer Certificate from MPDC.She is Graduate with Zoology Honors, has Diploma in Management and professional degree in Hotel Management.She is a Moodler.
She is passionate about learning and the use of technology for simplifying the process of learning.
She is pursuing Masters Degree now.
M.A. Senior Lecturer Wrocław University of Science and Technology - Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
I am an enthusiastic online non-native English teacher. I have been teaching English online since 2010. I have taught children as well as adults. I have a master’s degree in education from the University of Wroclaw, Poland, Philology, Linguistics Jul 1974.
After 40 years of teaching in traditional classroom settings, I grow into an experienced online professional tutor. I specialize in Conversational English.
As a non-native ESL teacher, I’m at a disadvantage when compared to native English speakers.
I am involved in the TEFL EQUITY ADVOCATES movement, which was initiated by Marek Kiczkowiak.
Anna Grabowska was awarded her PhD from Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), and has a Masters in Science degree in Applied Informatics from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Retired from GUT since 2008. She is an e-learning specialist for the PRO-MED sp. z o.o., a Head of the Autodesk Training Centre at Gdansk University of Technology, an advisor for U3A online in Australia, a founder member of the Association of Academic E-learning, a fellow 2009 of EDEN.
Ewa Kozłowska is a graduate student of Mechanical-Medical Engineering, interacademic field of study run cooperatively by Gdańsk University of Technology and Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland. She has started her adventure with e-learning in May 2015 by volunteering in SP4CE ERASMUS+ project and taking part in Moodle MOOCs. She is a certified Fusion 360 instructor at the Autodesk Authorised Training Centre at the Gdansk University of Technology. She is working on the topic of medical devices designing with the usage of computer collaboration tools by engineers and physicians.
Sue Annan is a Business English and General Adult teacher, based in Jersey, the biggest of the Channel Islands. She is a Teacher Trainer of Cert and Dip.TESOL for Trinity College, London. An #ELTChat moderator, she also moderates the Facebook group for IATEFL BEsig, as part of the Online Team. As a teacher for many years, she has become an avid user of online communities to further her own CPD and build a super PLN of like-minded people. She has recently started dipping her toe into online teaching.
I have been an English teacher for over 7 years now. I hold a bachelor’s degree in English and two post graduate online degrees from the University of Oregon thanks to two scholarships granted by the USA Embassy in Bolivia (Webskills and Introduction to TESOL Methods). I am studying online to get my TESOL certificate from the Arizona State University via Coursera. In July 2016, I am starting a double Master: a Ma TESOL and a Máster Universitario en Lingüística Aplicada a la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera. I have hosted many webinars on WizIQ during different MOOCs to share the valuable knowledge that I had the blessing to get. I am a grammar enthusiast. You can find all my Grammar Guides posted on eslprintables.com. I tutor students for TOEFL and TOEFL IBT tests lately. It is great to see them thrive and get great scores. I believe in learning as a way of living and teaching as a way of giving back to our community.
Ebba Ossiannilsson, PhD, E-learning, OER, MOOC and online expert and consultant, especially regarding quality. Ossiannilsson earned her PhD from Oulu University, Finland, with a dissertation on international benchmarking, and quality enhancement on e-learning in Higher Education. She works with strategic issues on e-learning, learning analytics, MOOCs, OERs and open education, especially concerning quality and benchmarking. She frequently participates as a speaker at conferences. Ossiannilsson is a consultant and board member in several international and national associations and projects. She served as an evaluator for the SEQUENT. She was the research leader for the ICDE Quality standard study 2014/15. Ossiannilsson earned the title EDEN Fellow 2014, and Open Education Europa Fellow in 2015. She serves as international quality reviewer for EADTU on E-learning and MOOCs. Ossiannilsson has a long carreer at Lund University, Sweden.
Presenters of MMVC17
Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning
5th Annual MoodleMoot Virtual Conference (MMVC11-17)
August 4-6, 2017