Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning

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4th Annual MoodleMoot Virtual Conference (MMVC11-15)

August 7-9, 2015

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.

Anatoliy Kochnev is co-founder at IntelliBoardDelivering professional, development and consulting services to support educational online learning initiatives. I have been building learning management systems with the desire to integrate innovative technologies into the learning experience.

Specialties: Online Learning, Learning Management Systems, LMS, eLearning, Online Training, eLearning Consulting, Student Management Systems, Moodle, LMS Reporting Tools.

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

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.

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I am an English teacher with more than 7 years of experience. 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). Just a week ago, I received one more scholarship to attend “Critical Thinking Skills” at the same University. This course starts in June 2015. I have hosted many webinars on WiZiQ during different MOOCs to share the valuable knowledge that I had the blessing to get. I have just finished a course with Shaping the Way We Teach English named: The Landscape of English Language Teaching. I am a grammar enthusiast. You can find all my Grammar Guides posted on eslprintables.com. I have started tutoring students in preparation for the TOEFL and TOEFL IBT tests lately. It is great to see them thrive and get good scores. My biggest dream is to have found a teaching job in Dubai by the end of 2015. I believe in learning as a way of living and teaching as a way of giving back to our community.

Vicky Papageorgiou is a foreign language teacher (English, Italian, Greek) with approximately 20 years of experience with mainly adult learners. She holds an MA in Education (Open Univ. of Cyprus) and an MA in Art (Goldsmiths College, UK) and she has just completed her PGCE in Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She studied in Greece, Italy and the UK but also participated in an international project in translation for the McLuhan program in Culture and Technology for the University of Toronto, Canada. She writes articles and blogs about Edtech and she is very passionate about the use of technology in teaching languages. She has a particular interest in MOOCs and the way they are developing. She is currently based in Thessaloniki (Greece) working as an Adjunct Lecturer at AMC College.

Brenda Mallinson is a Learning Technologies consultant, having worked in higher education for over 25 years, and with the Moodle OSS VLE for 11+ years. She is currently working on a number of Educational Technology and Open Educational Resource projects at higher education institutions across sub-Saharan Africa, encompassing research, strategy, theory, and practice. She is also non-resident Research Associate in the Department of Information Systems, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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 in international and national associations and projects. She serves as an evaluator for the SEQUENT. She is the research leader for the ICDE Quality standard study2014. Ossiannilsson earned the title EDEN Fellow 2014. Ossiannilsson is a Project Manager at the Centre for Educational Development, Lund University, Sweden.

Eduardo Lina English and Spanish as Foreign Languages teacher (Kugel High School in Holon, Israel). Developer and facilitator of several Israel's Ministry of Education's Teachers Professional Development workshops in English, Hebrew and Spanish. See more (Blogger profile)

Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat graduated in Politics and International Studies from the University of Southampton, UK in 1989. After 20 years in the world of Finance in such varied fields as life assurance, stockbroking, fund management, and wealth management, she decided to re-train as an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Trainer.

She studied for the CELTA at International House, London in 2009 and has since been a freelance English Language Trainer specialising in teaching adults both General and Business English. She teaches online and offline through her home stay full immersion courses. She is based in South East London, UK.

She has her own blog and website, English with a Twist.

Stephan has been working with ELT at middle, high school and college levels for the last 18 years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He holds an M.A. in Linguistics and specializations in Distance Learning. He is a Trinidad and Tobago national and has taken up residence in Brazil since 1996. He currently works in teacher training and development at a renowned local language school, where he coordinates academic issues for the school’s franchise units. In addition, he lectures in specialization programmes in English Language Teaching and Translation. Some of the subjects include Applied English Grammar, English Vocabulary, Productive and Receptive language skills, Error correction techniques, Research methodology and Final paper projects and Use of New technologies in Language Teaching.

Sharon Middleton, Director, MakewavesSharon has fifteen year's experience working within the education and technology sector; developing, designing and managing projects for national partners such as Parliament's Education Service, the Department of Health & Public Health England, NHS England, Royal Observatory Greenwich and Asda. Sharon leads on schools activity across the Makewaves platform and focuses on how young people engage with partner activities through Open Badges. Over the past two years, Sharon has had a lead role in the deployment of Mozilla’s Open Badge technology into the Makewaves safe community of schools and young people. Since Makewaves began in 2003, Sharon has been part of the development of one of the UK’s leading social networks for schools and children, supporting teachers, youth workers and now health professionals to connect and engage with young people in new ways. Sharon works closely with delivery organisations such as DigitalMe and contributes to Makewaves’ participation as a partner in the Badge the UK project.

Senior Lecturer at Wroclaw University of Technology,Foreign Languages Department and Department of Polish for Foreigners, since 1976.

Premium Teacher on WizIQ since 2012. I teach Polish as a foreign language and English. I also conduct lectures in English on Polish History and Culture for students from all over the world. I am learning how to teach using new technologies, and looking for some inspiration, as I want to improve my instruction/learning skills. I find Virtual Classes extremely powerful and challenging, they make attendees feel like having a real meeting and talks. I officially retired in October 2014. Linkedin Profile - My WizIQ Site - My Blog

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Anita Adnan is an ELT / ICT Consultant and Trainer with more than 16 years of teaching experience. She has been involved in training and coaching ESL learners, teacher trainees and corporate figures. She believes that technology can help work and life balance, especially for busy moms. She has been teaching online and sharing her expertise with moms in Malaysia and have developed some modules on Work Anywhere! She is an admin and founder of a big support group on fb - Doctorate Support Group with almost 36,000 members worldwide, though mostly Malaysian. In this presentation, she will share how she manages fb closed groups and the useful features in them. For more info about her work, please visit: www.anita-adnan.webnode.com

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"AgileBill" Krebs has over 20 years of experience that includes development, performance, as well as Agile training and coaching to over 2,000 people.

He holds the 'grand slam' of advanced Agile certifications, as well as certifications in facilitation, Innovation Games®, and coaching. He has served as a board member of Rockcliffe since 2010, and has hosted conferences using virtual worlds including Agile Worlds, Artful Agilists, and Playcamp online. He has studied the use of virtual environements at the University of Washington, Boise State, and the University of the West of England.

Currently, Bill hosts the Distributed Agile Study Group, speaks at conferences, teaches, and coaches Agile teams.

Currently pursuing masters education in University of Oulu, Finland in Education and Globalisation.

- 5 years experience in in-service teacher education- team leader for RELTmax, a national course in

Malaysia with participation of more than 2000 ELT teachers across the country

- vice-president for TEDBET, an online group to support beginner-ELT teachers in Malaysia

- children’s books illustrator- in the process of writing a book on educational

issues in Malaysia

Azmira Amran

Frederica-AZANIA Clare is a Trauma Recovery Specialist providing individuals, groups and families with Independent Trauma Resilience Education, Assessment & Training (I-TREAT): Community Building; Group Process Facilitation; Violence Prevention Training, via the Alternatives to Violence Project: AVP-NY -AVP USA and AVP INTERNATIONAL specialized in serving African and African Diaspora communities, at home and worldwide, serving all under-served communities; specialized in the practice of of Black and Ubuntu Psychology. Re-Entry COACH at AVPNYC , QUAKER Meeting House, Individual and group training and debriefing for mentacide recovery and community PEACE leadership. Adjunct Professor / Psychology - College of New Rochelle - School of New Resources Campuses, Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant, New York City; Mental Health Specialist - Montifiore Hospital at Rikers Island Jail; School Psychologist / School Based Support Team - NYC Department of Education

Charles Goodger Originally from London, the founder of FunSongs Education speaks six languages (including Latvian) and writes language-learning action songs. He has a modern languages degree in French and Spanish from London University and an RSA TEFL teaching certificate. As well as running FunSongs Education, Charles has permanent tenure as a Collaboratore Esperto Linguistico at Bologna University in Italy. Charles Goodger is an English teacher, teacher trainer, text-book and digital materials writer, playwright, songwriter and entrepreneur.

Dr. Anna Grabowska Retired academic teacher, Head of ATC, Member of Seniors' Club at Gdansk University of Technology

The Academic Computer Centre in Gdansk (CI TASK) is an inter-university organization where High Power Computers (HPC) and advanced information technology are located and made available to the scientific, academic, and business communities.

Rob Howard is from Boston, USA. He is the owner of online language center. He is a teacher, tutor, trainer, ELT blogger & author, global presenter, material designer, a certified camla judge. He live and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Janvier Nkurunziza is a teacher, researcher and blogger. He’s based in the UK, but is originally from Burundi. He is an EFL Lecturer in the UK. His interest lies in using educational technologies for teaching and learning purposes(Virtual Learning Environments like Moodle, Web 2.0 like wikis and blogs; social networks such as Facebook, Twitter,etc to enhance learning and teaching and widen access and participation.

Find out more on his WikiEducator page.

Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning

Syllabus | Live Presentations | Moodle Website | WizIQ Webinars | YouTube Playlist | #mmvc15 | Badge

4th Annual MoodleMoot Virtual Conference (MMVC11-15)

August 7-9, 2015