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Alex works with the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, NSW Learnscope Team
( Sydney ) as a Project Officer. Alex has a varied and extensive
education background ( Justice, Welfare, [Dis]Abilities) mixed with an
array of artistic pursuits incorporating new and emergent technologies. As a m-learningadvocate, Alex moblogs his way through life mixing lo-fi conversations, flexible learning co-ordination and associated past-times with research and applied application of social softwares for educational re-purposing. Between times Alex unravels the Australian VTE scene with Stephan Ridgway and composes mixed-leet-poetics for international settings.
Mark van Harmelen
is a South African who lives in the UK, dividing his time between
London and Manchester. He is an ICT consultant who works largely in the
elearning area, and is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the School
of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. His major
interests include communities, personal learning environments for
independent and community learning, social software, Web 2.0 for
learning, teaching and assessment, and technologies in general. Mark is
currently leading a team to develop a social software based personal
learning environment.
Teemu Leinonen holds over a decade of experience in the field of
research and development of web-based learning. His areas of interest
and expertise covers design for learning, computer supported
collaborative learning (CSCL), online cooperation, learning software
design, educational planning and educational politics. Since 1998 Teemu
has led Learning Environments research group of the Media Lab,
University of Art and Design Helsinki. The research group has
coordinated research and development projects, funded by The European
Commission in the Information Society Technologies (IST) framework, the
National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES), the Nordic Council of
Ministers and the UNESCO. Selected projects: MobilED audio wiki; LeMill - Do it yourself learning resource repository; Fle3 Lerning environment for collaborative knowledge building and jamming; UNESCO YDC - Young Dgital Creators Educators' KIT.
Trish Everett
is the Principal of Parnngurr Community School which is located in the
Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, 300 kilometers out of Newman.
Trish is has been using open web publishing and and networked learning
with the Mardu speaking community whose Indigenous community
development includes the use of blogs and moblogging.
Jo works in Educational Technology, providing technical support,
professional development and elearning resource development services at
the Teaching and Learning Resource Unit, TAFE NSW - Illawarra
Institute. Her interests include network learning, online education,
web culture, digital arts, identity and performance arts. Jo's current
research focus is on Web 2.0, Mobile Learning and Virtual worlds and
the possibilities these new technologies offer to us all. Check out
Jo's blog or virtual worlds explorations for more info on her work.
John Eyles joins from Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
He has been involved in distributed learning and the internet for 10
years. He has a particular fondness for the Greater Mekong Subregion .
John is online coordinator of the Art and Design Postgraduate Network and senior lecturer at AUT University. He is involved in the EON FOUNDATION and The Living Classroom.
Michael Coghlan's home base is in Adelaide, Australia. He works for TAFE SA as an elearning facilitator, and has worked closely with several Australian Flexible Framework
projects – most recently the Media on the Move online casting project
(URL coming soon). Like Barbara Dieu he is a long time member of the Webheads
community. Basically fascinated by all things web-related, especially
as they apply to education, and has recently become interested in what
Internet things are happening out there in the developing world so this
journey of exploration is right on time. [More...]
Barbara Dieu
is presently on a sabbatical year from the Lycée Pasteur, the
Franco-Brazilian secondary school in São Paulo. As she could not make
it all the way to Bangkok, she stopped in Australia and is visiting and
connecting to many of the educators she met both online and f2f during
FLNW 1. She is also moderating the Social Media in ELT EVO session, which will be weaving in some of the discussions generated during FLNW2. She has been involved in international projects online since 1997, networking, presenting, publishing
, producing material and collaborating in several national and
international communities of interest and practice like the Webheads in
Action and TALO. She has lately been involved with blogs, social tools
and open participatory webpublishing. Barbara blogs at Wide Open Spaces and Dekita.org
Bron Stuckey
Bronwyn Stuckey is principal consultant in Innovative Educational Ideas
consulting to industry and education on matters of online instructional
design, online learning, educational technology and games, community
and Internet-medieated community of practice development and
facilitation. She is a foundation member of CPsquare and coaches in the Foundations of Communities of Practice Workshop
with Etienne Wenger and John Smith. For the past three years she has
also been a visiting scholar in the Learning, Cognition and
Instruction/Learning Sciences at Indiana University with Sasha Barab, researching issues surrounding a 3D multi-user game environment Quest Atlantis.
She is interested in issues of community. identity and social learning
and how being better global citizens can improve well-being and the
quality of human life.
Leigh Blackall
is trying to tread water long enough to make it to this TALO gig. He is
currently swamped in educational development work at the Otago
Polytechnic in Dunedin New Zealand, and making things worse for himself
by attempting to renovate a house and change the world. If not face to
face, Leigh will be online with bells on.
Countrymike (aka Brent Simpson) - Lately I spend a lot of time in both the WikiEducator and Wikiversity communities but I was formerly an interface/interaction designer on the eXe Project an Open Source authoring tool for eLearning when FLNW06 found its way to Waiheke Island
where I happen to live. I have been entangling myself in the
intersections of learning and technology for over 10 years now and I
was an early instigator of Open Content having released the Texas
Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT)
under Wiley's Open Publication License way back before there was a
Creative Commons. I will be mostly be working behind the scenes here,
trying to aggregate, repackage and distribute as much of the data flow
as humanly possible. Chat with me on Freenode IRC #flnw08 if you like. Blog: Pedagogy of the Compressed , Tumblelog: some things float on water that shouldn't. Please tag your stuff flnw08 for me to find it.
Nancy White
Passionately interested in how we use the power of people to people
connection in our lives and in the world. Addicted to chocolate. She is
older than the picture by about 46 years but still has the same goofy
face!
Vance in Hanoi, 2007
Vance Stevens
is most certainly going to Bangkok. Having taught EFL/ESL for 20 years
with high-profile involvement in CALL, Vance has emerged as a computing
lecturer at Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi but at most other times is
a Webhead http://webheads.info.
Vance likes to try and figure out how to use tools having to do with
things like computers and read-write Web and tags and RSS and
distributed learning networks to help others figure out how to use
tools having to do with things like computers and read-write Web and
tags and RSS and distributed learning networks, and thereby learn how
to (you got it!) from those folks. I'm hoping to meet such folks if not
f2f in Bangkok then out there in the usual places.
Stephan Ridgway
works as an eLearning Coordinator for Learning and Innovation @ TAFE
NSW, Sydney Institute. He has been involved with eLearning within TAFE
NSW for around 6 years, responsible for the development, maintenance
and delivery of a wide range of online resources, delivering staff
professional development and providing support for teaching &
learning online.
He has a passionate interest in networked teaching and learning
communities and the online technologies involved. He has been
podcasting since 2005 recording conferences, workshops etc. for
numerous VET organisations as well as posting a regular topical podcast with Alex Hayes, Robyn Jay and invited guests.
I've been teaching EFL for over 30 years. I am originally from
Toronto, Canada but have been living in Israel for the past 35 years. I
have a BA in English literature and linguistics and an MA in education,
curriculum and instruction. I am currently pursuing a doctorate in
educational leadership specializing in curriculum and instruction
online at the University of Phoenix. I plan to research instructors'
use of technology (audio and video) for instruction at a campus-based
university. I am interested in teachers' professional development and
ways of helping teachers integrate technology into blended learning
environments. I use Moodle, wikis, and ning
social blogs for all of my high school EFL classes. In addition, I
engage my students in international literature and cultural-based
exchange projects. As a visual/kinesthetic learner, I spend hours on
YouTube searching for material to add to my lessons. In addition to my
regular job as a high school teacher, I facilitate online courses on
WebQuests and e-learning and moderate PAIRS marriage enrichment
courses. In my spare time I moderate Doctoral StudentsAddicted to FacebookHelp Kenya and e-Learning in Developing and Developed Countriesgroups on facebook and blended learning and instructionsand online instruction
on ning. I believe social networking is potentially the best channel
for people to learn and grow. I have come a long way since my high
school visits to Marshall McLuhan’s evening seminar at the U of T in
the late 60s. I doubt whether I consciously understood anything he
said, but one thing stuck in my mind and that is that we now live in a “global village"
When I am not online or at work, I run long distance for at least an hour or two everyday. If I follow my daughter's online programs, I will be ready for my first marathon in the summer.
Currently, Kim is the 21st Century Literacy Specialist at the International School Bangkok.
Her role bridges the gap between technology and the library by helping
core subject teachers utilize web 2.0 technologies in the classroom,
creating a global and collaborative approach to learning.
Over the past two years Kim has worked with classroom teachers to
develop internationally collaborative projects that authentically
engage students from all around the world, helping them become
effective 21st century learners, collaborators and creators.
I am currently the Instructional Technology Specialist in the
Quakertown Community School District in Quakertown, PA. I support
teachers K-12 in their learning of web 2.0 technologies and
understanding how classroom practices shift when the walls of
conventional classrooms are removed. I teach an online course with Darren Draper, Instructional Technology Specialist in the Jordan School District in Sandy, Utah. Our couse is called Open Professional Development - Social Software in the Classroom
we use web 2.0 technologies to teach others about the free online
resources available. Our second round of teaching begins January 23,
2008, check the wiki for information if you are interested in joining
us.
Gladys has been an English teacher for almost 30 years, mostly
working in bilingual schools in Buenos Aires. For the last 15
coordinated their English Dept. Has also been an UCLES Oral Examiner
for YLE, KET, PET, FCE & CAE.
Started a ning space http://teachustech.ning.com
, and an ECTO group to share experiences and materials with other
teachers. At the moment is interested in learning about web 2.0 tools
in order to help teachers include them in their classrooms
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He has a passionate interest in networked teaching and learning communities and the online technologies involved. He has been podcasting since 2005 recording conferences, workshops etc. for numerous VET organisations as well as posting a regular topical podcast with Alex Hayes, Robyn Jay and invited guests.
When I am not online or at work, I run long distance for at least an hour or two everyday. If I follow my daughter's online programs, I will be ready for my first marathon in the summer.
Bangkok, Thailand
Currently, Kim is the 21st Century Literacy Specialist at the International School Bangkok. Her role bridges the gap between technology and the library by helping core subject teachers utilize web 2.0 technologies in the classroom, creating a global and collaborative approach to learning.
Over the past two years Kim has worked with classroom teachers to develop internationally collaborative projects that authentically engage students from all around the world, helping them become effective 21st century learners, collaborators and creators.
Started a ning space http://teachustech.ning.com , and an ECTO group to share experiences and materials with other teachers. At the moment is interested in learning about web 2.0 tools in order to help teachers include them in their classrooms
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