People+and+Places

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Professor emeritus || California State University, Sacramento, California, USA || Professor emeritus at CSU, Sacramento, where she ran the graduate TESOL Program, Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith is lead designer of the **//Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive//** and pedagogical consultant for //**Live Action English Interactive**// She wrote //[|Constructing the Paragraph]//, a tutorial for composition, (free online). On the Coordination Team of the [|Electronic Village Online], she is a past chair of TESOL's CALL IS. Author of many articles on CALL pedagogy, her books include //**Learning Languages through Technology**// (co-edited with Sarah Rilling, 2007) and //**CALL Environments, 2nd ed.**//, (co-edited with Joy Egbert, 2007), both available from [|TESOL Publications]. Her Website, [|Computers for Education], and [|blog]offer many free resources for teachers. She has belonged to [|Webheads in Action] since 2002. Homepage: [|Computers for Education] Blog: [|Virtual=Real] Email: ehansonsmi @ yahoo.com || || Beespace São Paulo, Brazil || Bee is presently on a sabbatical from the Franco-Brazilian secondary school where she has been preparing students for the French Baccalaureat since 1983. She has been in ELT and education since 1974 (in the classroom) and since 1997 increasingly online, networking, keynoting, planning, organizing and facilitating workshops /collaborative projects worldwide. She has [|published] /[|presented] nationally and internationally. An active member of several associations and communities of practice, among which [|Tesol], [|Braztesol], [|WiA], [|Merlot], [|Hornby CL], [|Práxis], and [|T.A.L.O], she is presently [|Braztesol EduTechSIG Coordinator] and also serving on the 2008-9 [|NMC Horizon Project Advisory Board]. || || Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília, Brazil || Erika Cruvinel works for Casa Thomas Jefferson as a teacher, a teacher trainer, a CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) tutor, a computer lab monitor, an online instructor and a website content manager. She has given presentations in workshops and seminars about the potential of technology integration into language learning and is especially interested in the uses of tech-applications to develop collaborative projects among different countries. Email: erikacruvinel@gmail.com skype id: erikacruvinel || || Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília, Brazil || Ronaldo Lima Jr works for Casa Thomas Jefferson as a teacher, a teacher trainer, a CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) tutor, a computer lab monitor, an online instructor and a website content manager. He is also an Applied Linguisitcs graduate student whose main interests are learning strategies, pronunciation teaching and technology-enhanced language teaching. Email: ronaldo.limajr@gmail.com skype id: ronaldo.lima.junior || || University of Salford, UK || [|Cristina Costa] is an EFL teacher, currently working at the University of Salford as a Learning Technologies development Officer. She’s a member of the [|webhead]s in Action, and an active member of many other communities and networks (including [|Connecting Online]. [|Blogging for Educators], and [|Learning with Computers]. She is also a co-founder of the open-community EVOLVE) || CALL SIG Coordinator for the local [|Association of Teachers of English.] Cambridge Oral Examiner. CALL Consultant. Member of //[|Webheads in Action]// since 2002. Presenter in various f2f and online seminars and Congresses --both locally and abroad-- of topics related with the Internet and its integration into Language Learning. Her 2008 [|classblog] and her [|wiki] include project work with EFL teachers and students from different countries in the world. Personal page [|here.] email: rita@zeinstejer.com Yahoo M. and Skype IDs: ritazeinstejer ||
 * **Presenters** || **Institution and Location in Real Space** || **Short Bio** ||
 * Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith,
 * Barbara Dieu
 * Erika Cruvinel
 * Ronaldo Lima Jr.
 * Cristina Costa
 * [[image:2007.JPG]] || Asociacion Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa, Rosario, Argentina || EFL teacher, Area Manager for Multimedia and Advanced Courses at [|ARCI], Argentina.
 * Sus Nyrop, Denmark

|| Free lance education community research and development, working from my home office || Susanne Nyrop is an education researcher with a special interest in multimedia, communication and online narratives of communities of practice. She works part time for the Danish ministry of education as an appointed, external examiner of bachelor exams at university colleges of social education. Sus Nyrop has followed Webheads in Action since 2001, as an active participant in multiple guest teacher sessions, online conferences and workshops. Although she is not a CALL language teacher, her frequent contacts and ongoing collaboration with such teachers has given her a good deal of practical, hands-on knowledge of this field. ||