Tiziana Saponaro

Tiziana Saponaro, Italy, Secondary, Technical Institute, ESP, Educational Technology

International certified teacher of English, Italian and Spanish (with 20- plus years of experience in public schools and international boarding schools in Switzerland, Italy and the United States). Teacher trainer, and freelance translator. Mother tongue: Italian; proficiency in English, fluent in Spanish.

I have been working as a language teacher in language schools (and as a freelance translator for the University of Verona, Italy), teaching ESL in an international boarding school in Italy for nine years, teaching Italian and English in an international boarding school in Switzerland for seven years, and teaching Spanish as an exchange teacher for a year in the USA, 2000/2001 (Virginia).

I give presentations about implementing technology in education. My courses are centered around using the iPad to enhance learning and teaching. They focus on using the iPad as a teaching aid, lesson ideas, educational apps and iPad tips.

Teaching with the iPad in a Flipped Classroom - currently offline
Creative ways to use the iPad in teaching and ideas for engaging students through effective instructional methods and technology.

Theme: edtech, collaborative learning, iPad, apps, methodology, flipped classroom

James Hoyle

James Hoyle, Spain, Adult, English Language Teaching

James Hoyle, MA Oxon, is the CEO of Go English, based in Barcelona, Spain. He has been teaching English since 1995 and founded the company in 2001. Since 2006 James has been working in the field of blended learning in the corporate sector combining online learning with face-to-face, telephone and online classroom teaching, always keeping the teacher at the centre of the learning experience.

Blend Your Teaching - currently offline
Discussion of innovations in Blended Learning techniques, teaching tips, teacher training and education management.

Theme: blended, ELT, online, collaborative learning, corporate training, corporate learning, LMS, elearning, elearning2.0, emerging technologies, english language teaching, exams, examinations, evaluation, online education

Nina Lyulkun

Nina Lyulkun, Ukraine, All Subjects

EFL teacher at Khmelnitskiy National University in Ukraine for 30+ years of experience. Her students mostly majoring in economics. Involved in Internet surfing since 1997 after participating in the IATEFL conference in Lyubliana, Slovenia.

Since then has participated in many online workshops, seminars, courses and conferences. Ex-president of TESOL-Ukraine (2001-2003). Now: she's part of, the Webheads. This year she's been a co-moderator for a free online session for educators around the globe, the Blogging4Educators, An awardee of WorldCALL 2008.

Annual Students' Conference VSPU was created for involving students of Ukraine as well students and educators from all over the globe to participate in online conferences, discussions, sharing ideas about Language, Education and Culture.

Webheads at WorldCALL2008 was created for webheads, awardees attending the WorldCALL 2008 Congress in Fukuoka, Japan on August, 05-10. WorldCALL aims to enhance computer-assisted language teaching and learning in the global community by bringing educators from around the world together.

Insights and Reflections
The is a collaborative blog with Carla Arena and Jane Petring. Books, bikes, boats, blogs…what better catalysts for reflection!

New Blogging Attempt…
An experimental blog to use for learning about edublogging. This blog may be changed later.

Themes: online conference, research, blogging, collaborative learning, edublog, education, efl, elearning, teachers, teaching

Carla Arena

Carla Arena, USA & Brazil, EFL

A curious Brazilian EFL educator currently living in Key West and teaching online, Carla Arena is really into multiplying what she's been learning with others in the Community of Practice she's part of, the Webheads. For the past two years she's been a co-moderator for a free online session for educators around the globe, the Blogging4Educators.

Collablogatorium
I'll consider this space as my Further Explorations blog.

BrazilBridges
Here you can find more about Carla's edtech projects.

The Journey - old blog
Carla keeps her reflections at her Explorations on teaching and learning blog.

Themes: collaborative learning, EFL, education, social networking, photography, e-learning, blogging, edublogging