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Connecting Online is a free online conference that takes place on the first full weekend of February. CO16 is the 7th annual event. In 2012, the presenters compiled a book called Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning: International Perspectives. The theme of CO16 is teaching online to improve instruction and learning in education and business.

Moderators

Dr. Nellie Deutsch Rob Howard

Dr. Nellie Deutsch (Ed.D) is an education technology advisor, English faculty member in blended learning and fully online programs at a university and faculty on leadership fully online in the transpersonal graduate program at Atlantic University. She’s on the IATEFL YLTSIG, EDMedia executive, WAOE, TESOL CALL-IS, HEIS and SSIS committees. Nellie has been teaching English in high school and at the college level for over 35 years and integrating technology since 1992. She organizes free online programs for educators on how to manage and teach with Moodle and integrate technology into face-to-face, blended, and fully online courses online MOOCs, online conferences (Connecting Online and Moodle MOOTs), and other online events such as Fall and Spring Blog Festivals. She is passionate about using technologies such as Moodle, WizIQ, Movenote, PresentMe, Slidespeech, Screencast-o-matic, and google drive to promote active learning and teaching as a way to learn.

Rob Howard is the owner of Online Language Center, a live online course for C1/C2 level language students. He is a teacher, tutor, trainer, material designer and writer for English as a foreign language. He is also a consultant and has been a frequent speaker internationally, both in-person and online, regarding online retention as well as using technology in and out of the classroom. He is founder of EFLtalks, talks for teachers, utilizing social media to build a living and growing worldwide PLN for new and future language teachers through EFLtalks.com.

Originally from Boston, he is currently residing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

You may e-mail him at rob.howard.efl@gmail.com.

Company Name Giveaways Full Name of Person

i-Study Interactive Learning 1 hour - Google Apps for Teachers Karin Heuert Galvão

Online Language Center 1-hour group session for 5 on “Online Do’s and Don’ts”

Rob Howard

WizIQ 3 Premium Accounts Each Day Worth $1500 each

Rahul Singh (VP, Marketing at WizIQ)

Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning

5 winners of Online Teaching: Facilitating Online Learning a self-based with teacher facilitation online course worth $139 each. The course start date is February 20.

Dr. Nellie Deutsch

TEACH @ English Success Academy 1 Winner’s choice of either Online Tutor Launchpad or How to Teach ESL Exams

Jaime Miller

Sponsors & Free Giveaways

Dr. Robert N. Diotalevi, Esq., LL.M. is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. He has been a lawyer for thirty (30) years as a member of the Massachusetts and Florida bars. He possesses four (4) degrees and has been internationally published. In 2009 Dr. Diotalevi had a book published. It is entitled, “The Florida Paralegal,” with Attorney William Statsky and published by Cengage Learning. Dr. Diotalevi was a professional broadcaster for eight (8) years and held managerial positions in radio news and production. Dr. Diotalevi’s works have been published in SMU School of Law’s Computer Law Review and Technology Journal, The Paralegal Educator, The Journal of Paralegal Education and Practice, and The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration. He also serves as an editor for The British Journal of Social Sciences, British Association of Academic Research, Midlands, U.K, The OnLine Journal of Distance Learning Administration, State University of West Georgia, The European Journal of Business and Social Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, and The Journal of Biblical Integration in Business (JBIB), Christian Business Faculty Association, Mount Vernon, OH. Dr. Diotalevi is a member of The Board of Reviewers, The Journal of Interactive Online Learning, The University of Alabama and a reviewer for The Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution, Academic Journals, Kenya, Africa.Dr. Diotalevi presents at national and regional law-related conferences as well as at various legal organizations around the country.

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.

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.

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 career at Lund University, Sweden.

Dr. Rachel Sale is an educator with extensive faculty training experience facilitating innovative use of educational technology. Research interests include online social networking, poverty & the online environment, and innovative ed. tech. concepts.

Specialties: Instructional Technology; Adobe Captivate, Adobe Creative Suite, Mobile Application Design, Web Design and Presentation: XML, HTML, JavaScript, usability, CSS, WYSIWYG layout tools; Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 (Dreamweaver, Illustrator; Photoshop; Acrobat, Fireworks, Flash, Contribute); Microsoft Office Suite 2010 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Publisher); Articulate 09; Technical Writing

Janet Salmons, PhD is an independent researcher, writer and consultant through Vision2Lead.com. I wrote Doing Qualitative Research Online (Salmons, 2016), Qualitative Online Interviews (2015) and Online Interviews in Real Time (2010). I edited Cases in Online Interview Research (2012) and the Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy with Lynn Wilson (2009).

I am a passionate life-long learner and educator. Experience includes over 16 years on the online graduate faculty of the Capella University School of Business. I was honored with the Harold Abel Distinguished Faculty Award for 2011-2012 and the Steven Shank Recognition for Teaching in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

The conference session, “Learning to Research, Researching to Learn” will offer practical options for infusing inquiry into courses. It will focus on how to mesh e-learning and e-research in online or blended learning classes.

Dawn Alderson is an educator, researcher, author, specialist in child development and is currently focused on educational technology for enhancing learner engagement and supporting new teaching approaches. She began her career in 1999 as a qualified teacher with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets then went on to teach across Initial Teacher Training, undergraduate and postgraduate provision for over a decade. Dawn has read for three degrees in education and her Master's degree specifically focused on the use of ICT with young children.

Justin Hunt is the creator of PoodLL, a multimedia recording and embedding solution for Moodle. A former teacher, he is passionate about the use of technology in the classroom and is heavily involved in open source development in the edtech sector. When he is not Moodling, he is also the project development manager for ReadingPortfolio.com, and runs marathons.

My form of art is the virtual world that connects to life in many ways. I am an artist and art educator so in my projects I encourage participants to mix media according to their dreams.

Museum location -based learning expert .Specialized in Art and Science museums . Teaching and training curators and educators in meaningful teaching - learning methods.B.F.A. From Bezalel Art Academy and her M.A In Art History @ Tel Aviv University.

Jaime Miller (CELTA, 2008; DELTA, 2014-now) is a full-time online teacher / trainer. She has made a living teaching private online lessons for TOEFL iBT since 2010 and self-published three digital courses sold directly to students. At this year's IATEFL conference, she'll present a lesson sequence that destabilizes fossilized errors in pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. She helps teachers earn money as online freelance tutors with either their own projects, or by training them to customize lesson plans that change scores at stressful speaking exams.

See the 5-step map to become an online tutor and get a year's worth of career-building inspiration:

http://teach.englishsuccessacademy.com

Arkady Zilberman, Ph. D. during many years of his work as a scientist and simultaneous interpreter was trying to find an answer to the question: why do some people like him learn a foreign language easily, whereas most adults have a hard time getting to grips with a foreign language, and many simply give up? After many years of experimenting during simultaneous interpretation and reading research on how adults learn foreign languages, Arkady made a few discoveries described in the website www.language-bridge.com and in his Amazon eBook: http://amzn.to/1GZdpk1.

The course (http://language-bridge-technology.teachable.com/) is for learners who want to become fluent in English in less than a year; it combines self-paced self-training using the content of the course, and weekly group online classes, conducted by the Language Bridge Technology-certified teachers. The learners' active time of speaking in English is much higher in this course than in conventional classes since it introduces speech shadowing of pre-recorded lessons and drills. Training English Skills is active learning by shadowing English before you have learned the language. We offer a stress-free training environment instead of the stressful learning and memorization of the traditional methods.

This course is for learners who want to use a more efficient approach to become fluent in English fast by Training English Skills instead of Learning English. We offer free retraining for the teachers who decide to use the course with their learners.

A pattern thinker, Jennifer taught herself two languages as an adult. After many years of teaching English as a Foreign Language, Jennifer founded English Laboratory in 2008. English Laboratory, as the name suggests, is dedicated to the continued investigation, research of and trial and error experimentation with learning processes and communication. It counts on the input from a wide range of professionals including ESL/EFL specialists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, computer scientists and graphic artists to produce effective systems and supports. Learners participate in a skill-acquiring experience that turns errors into knowledge and uncertainty into opportunity.

Her one-on-one platform has now expanded to ebooks, online courses and courses on DVD, reaching thousands of learners from all corners of the planet within every budget. The out-of-the-box thinking that is at English Laboratory’s epicentre has provided uncountable solutions within both public education systems and the private sector.

She is a proud member of Radical English (www.radicalenglish.weebly.com ), a group of experienced, professional EFL/ESL teachers based in Canada, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, the UK and the USA. They publish, give webinars, do podcasts and livecasts, talk at conferences and seminars, teach students and clients, and train teachers on unique approaches to teaching and learning English.

JACK ASKEW

Jack helps teachers create an online teaching business for the long-term.

www.teachingeslonline.com www.teoc.co

Karin Heuert Galvão has been an EFL Teacher for 15 years and Director at i-Study Interactive Learning for 8 years. She holds, among others, the CELTA and IH Certificate in Online Tutoring. She also writes materials for EFL courses for students from 2 years old and on. She is also one of the moderators of an online community based on Facebook: BrELT (Brazil’s English Language Teachers).

She is passionately committed to the quality of the learning experience and is always looking for opportunities to learn, teach and share ideas. She currently lives in São Paulo (Brazil).

“We are teachers as well as studentsand

our students are our teachers”.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 few Universities 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. 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.

Susan Brodar, MA 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. After working at the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade for a year she married her Italian globetrotting companion and set up home near Venice, Italy. Today she is a freelance English language teacher both online and face-to-face. With over 38 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. She has her own blog and website: www.bilingualcommunications.weebly.com

Vance Stevens - I've been involved in online learning since way last century, as founder of a movement that became Webheads in Action, still a robust community. I have been a coordinator of the TESOL / CALL-IS Electronic Village Online for almost 15 years and have moderated several 5-week online sessions there ranging from Multiliteracies and MOOCs to Minecraft. In 2010 I started a weekly webinar series called Learning2gether. I teach EFL at the UAE Air College in Al Ain, UAE, where I'm fortunate to be working with fine colleagues who have been co-presenting with me in workshops at conferences worldwide, where we show how we strive to develop our use of iPad technology to address our students' academic needs and skill sets.My presentation here derives from one such session.

I have been teaching English as a second language at the Centro Boliviano Americano-a Bi-national center-for about 6 years now. I enjoy teaching because I learn a lot in the process. I teach teens and adults, from true beginners to advanced levels. I have started tutoring students in preparation for the TOEFL and TOEFL IBT tests lately. It is great to see them thrive and finally get great scores. I am a grammar enthusiast and I am thinking about writing my own book about Intermediate English Grammar in order to help other teachers to tutor students. By the end of this year I will have finished my university career and gotten my Bachelor’s degree in English. My biggest dream is to have found a teaching job in Dubai as soon as I graduate.

I believe in learning as a way of living and teaching as a way of giving back to our community. I live in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in South America.

Dr Ramesh Sharma is an expert in open and distance and technology mediated learning and has served COL as Director of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, Indira Gandhi National Open University and University of Guyana, Guyana, South America. He had been a member of Advisory Group on Human Resources Development for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). While at University of Guyana he also collaborated with UNDP for its Enhanced Public Trust, Security and Inclusion (EPTSI) project, Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) and United Nations Volunteer (UNV) to develop suitable educational opportunities for communities and youth.

He has been associated with several peer reviewed journals as Reviewer, Editor and Editorial Advisory Board member in the field of Open and Distance Learning. An author/editor of several books and research papers on educational technology, educational multimedia and eLearning, Dr. Sharma is a leading scholar and practitioner promoting Open Educational Resources (OER). He has been a trainer and capacity builder in the field of educational technology, and has supervised doctoral research in the field. He has conducted workshops and evaluation activities for IGNOU, CEMCA, COL, UNCTAD, and Aga Khan Foundation, amongst others.

Chris Rush

Chris completed his TEFL International Certification in the summer of 2012 and has been a full-time online teacher since then, focusing on teaching Business English to Adults.

Rather than pushing the boundaries of technology, Chris seeks to simplify the online learning process by focusing on authentic human connections as a way to make online learning accessible for learners of all ages.

Theodora Papapanagiotou

"Theodora has been a teacher of EFL and DaF in Greece since 1992. Currently working as a senior educational consultant & content developer at Hyphen SA http://hyphen.gr/site/. She is also an active blogger."

www.theodorapap.blogspot.gr

www.itdi.pro/blog

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.

Stephen Greene has been a language teacher, teacher trainer and materials developer for 20 years with experience of teaching in Poland, Taiwan, London, Russia and Brazil. Before travelling around the world he came from Birmingham in the UK. He holds an MA in Linguistics, as well as a Diploma in Teaching to Speakers of Other Languages from Trinity College, London. He writes about his experiences of teaching at tmenglish.org and what life is like bringing up a bilingual son in Curitiba, Brazil at headoftheheard.com.

Brian C. Steinberg, ABD (http://www.briancraigsteinberg.com) has had over 20 years of Academic and Student Affairs experience. He has managed residence halls and apartments, advised Multicultural and International Students, and taught geography, cultural diversity, environmental science, college orientation, sociology, student success, and technology courses at many colleges and universities.

Brian has received his B.S. in Earth Science and Geology from Central Michigan University, and his M.A. in Post Secondary Education: Student Affairs and Geography from The University of Northern Iowa. Brian is also a June 2002 graduate of the Social Justice Training Institute and is currently finishing up his PhD in The Leadership for Higher Education Program at Capella University. Brian also received his Diversity Graduate Certificate from Capella University.

Brian currently works for a diversity and multicultural education training and consulting firm and teaches for a few online colleges and universities.

Full Program | Conference Area | About the Presenters | Webinars on WizIQ | Reflection | YouTube Playlist

Connecting Online is a free online conference that takes place on the first full weekend of February. CO16 is the 7th annual event. In 2012, the presenters compiled a book called Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning: International Perspectives. The theme of CO16 is teaching online to improve instruction and learning in education and business.