Moodle MOOT Virtual Conference 2016

Dr. Nellie Deutsch (Ed.D) is an education technology
relationship-based mentor to educators worldwide. She’s
faculty at Atlantic University and on EDMedia executive
committee. Nellie has been teaching English in high school
and at the college level for over 35 years and integrating
technology into face-to-face programs since 1992. She
organizes free online events such as Moodle & Second Life
MOOCs, online conferences (Connecting Online and
Moodle MOOTs), Blog Festivals, EFLtalks for free. She is
passionate about using technologies such as Moodle,
WizIQ, Knovio, PresentMe, Slidespeech, Screencast-o-
matic, and google drive to promote active learning and
teaching as a way to learn.

Stephan has been in ELT for the last 20 years. He resides in Rio de
Janeiro, where he currently works as teacher trainer and educator at
a renowned language school and delivers lectures in postgraduate
diploma programs in English Language Teaching and English
Translation. He holds an M.A. in Linguistics and several
specialization certificates in Online Learning, Course Design,
Managerial Skills, IT Management, Research Methodology for Higher
Education programs, Social Network Management, Competitive
Intelligence and Team Leadership.
He is an active social media user for educational purposes. He’s the
co-founder and co-moderator of the #nt2t Twitter chat and has
collaborated in global education projects such as ECG2015,
ECG2016, GEC 2014, in addition to MMVC.

Ludmila Smirnova is a Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College,
Newburgh, NY, USA, where she has taught for the past 15 years. At the
Mount, she offers courses in Curricular Planning, Psychology of Learning,
Methods of Teaching and Teaching with Technology. She has become
increasingly recognized for her leadership in the application of emerging
Internet technologies to education. She has run numerous workshops on the
application of Smart Technologies and Web 2.0 tools to the college and
primary/secondary classrooms. Prior to coming to the Mount, Dr. Smirnova
was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University,
Russia, where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages.
During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnova was known for her work in
innovative approaches to teaching. Beyond the seventy publications based
upon her work in Russia, Dr. Smirnova has written for and presented to a
growing list of professional audiences in the U.S. and abroad. She is a co-
designer and co-facilitator of the Moodle for Teachers workshops at IT4ALL.

Anna Grabowska was awarded her PhD from Gdansk
University of Technology (GUT), and has a Masters in
Science degree in Applied Informatics from De Montfort
University, Leicester, UK.
Retired from GUT since 2008. She is an e-learning
specialist for the PRO-MED sp. z o.o., a Head of the
Autodesk Training Centre at Gdansk University of
Technology, an advisor for U3A online in Australia, a
founder member of the Association of Academic E-
learning, a fellow 2009 of EDEN.

Ewa Kozłowska - student at the Gdansk University of Technology
in Poland. She has started her adventure with e-learning in May
2015 by volunteering in SP4CE project and taking part in Moodle
MOOCs.

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 carreer at Lund
University, Sweden.

Danny King is the Co-Founder and CEO of Accredible, a startup whose
certificate management platform enables a variety of organisations to
issue and administer secure, cloud-hosted digital certificates. Danny
studied computer science at Durham University in the UK, where he co-
founded a society to encourage student entrepreneurship. Shortly after
graduating, he relocated to Silicon Valley in the US after Accredible was
accepted into Imagine K12’s Winter 2013 cohort. Since then, Accredible
has issued hundreds of thousands of digital certificates for organisations
as diverse as Kaplan University, Udacity, Saylor Academy, Hootsuite,
Mental Health First Aid England, the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition
Advisors, the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the International
Association of Privacy Professionals and the Estonian Pharmacies
Association, among many others. Danny is passionate about education,
new technologies and credentialing, and wants to encourage a culture
where what you know is far more important than where you learned it.

Maha Hassan is the founder/Ceo of Maha ESL Community. She is also
Head of English Dept. at the Arab Academy for Training Technology. She
aims at helping teachers believe in, achieve and sustain Professional
Development. She has been working as a Teacher Trainer for more than
15 years. She has given presentations at Nile Tesol 2015, LIF (Language
in Focus) Turkey, 2015, Global Education Online Conference 2012 and
2014 as well as at Reinventing the Classroom and Learning Revolution
Online Conferences 2014. She has also given a Poster Session at Nile
Tesol Conference 2014. She also had a paper on teaching Adults
published on Howtolearn.com . You can get access to this article through
her blog: teachingenglishcafe.blogspot.com/ as well as an article on Nile
Tesol Newsletter, 2014. She has also been responsible for setting and
adjusting curriculums to suit all stages. During her working experience she
has mostly been responsible for choosing curriculums, appraising them
and training teachers how to get through them.

Marisa Constantinides is a teacher, teacher educator, conference presenter
and ELT author; she is the Director of Studies of CELT Athens, a CELTA &
Delta centre in Athens and online. Marisa is a frequent conference presenter
and keynote speaker - some recent presentations can be viewed here - and
has presented at IATEFL International, TESOL France, Brazil TESOL, TESOL
Greece as well as on numerous online Conferences and Events. She is one of
the founding moderators of #ELTchat, a weekly discussion of ELT teachers on
Twitter which was shortlisted in the 2012 ELTon Awards for Innovation in
Teacher Resources. To find out more about this great weekly chat offering free
professional development, visit the #ELTchat website here. A few more
nominations/awards for blogging by international websites can be viewed here.
Other community work includes moderating TESOL EVO workshops and,
more recently, working as part of the Committee of the IATEFL Learning
Technologies SIG. Recent publications include a chapter on 'Creativity in the
English Language Classroom’. She is @Marisa_C on Twitter and you can
connect with her on various social networks, all listed on her About.me page

Nitin Jain is a Technologist, has been into this industry from more than 11 years. He has
worked with various reputed national and international organizations as developer, project
lead, project manager, architect and currently working as Vice President - Projects into an
Indo-German company VT Netzwelt.
He is an eLearning and eCommerce Specialist and had designed & developed various
industry demanded solutions for large corporates, institutions, universities, tafe, schools
across the globe.
He is very active member of Moodle community over Moodle Forums. He has also
contributed some of his unique plugins and themes to community like multiselect profile
field, educator theme, etc., He has conducted various professional and in-depth Advanced
Moodle Administration training to individuals and group of individuals from big corporates
and organizations. He has also presented his solutions into various online Moodle Moocs as
well as into a verry first Official Moodle Mooc in India, which happened last year only.
Email: nitinwaves@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/in/nitinwaves
Skype: nitinwaves
Orgranization: VT Netzwelt http://www.vtnetzwelt.com

Angelos Bollas (Cambridge Delta, MA ELT) is
based in Greece, the UK, and online. He is
interested in online education and CPD, as well
as pre- and in-service teacher training. In his free
time, he blogs, participates in and co-moderates
#ELTchat weekly discussions on twitter, and
connects with language educators around the
world. He is an iTDi Blog contributor, an IATEFL
Conference Committee member, and is
@angelos_bollas on Twitter.

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 PACE
University 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. She is an active EFLtalker and on the Advisory
Board of EFLtalks. 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.
www.linkedin.com/in/judywongrteddi
www.judysworld.edublogs.org/about/
“We are teachers as well as students and our students are our
teachers”.

Anita Adnan is an ELT / ICT Consultant and Trainer with
more than 17 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 47,000
members worldwide, though mostly Malaysian. In this
presentation, she will share how is currently exploring
Facebook LIVE, both on iphones and desktops and the useful
features in them. For more info about her work, please visit:
www.anita-adnan.webnode.com
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Sibel Taskin Simsek is actively involved as a
member of the Online Learning Support Project
and Webinar teams at the School of Languages,
Sabanci University, Istanbul, TURKEY. She has
professional certificates including "Teaching
English with Technology” offered by The
Consultants-E. Her interests include technology
integration into teaching, MOOCs, learner
development and motivation. Her blog
songstoteachenglish has recently won the
Edublog Awards 2014 “Best Educational Use of
Media”.

Vance Stevens - I teach EFL at the UAE Air College in Al Ain,
UAE, but that’s just my day job. 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. Learning2gether provides weekly opportunities
for educators to share their expertise online, but it also
inventories and archives a microcosm of what is going on at any
given moment in the universe of online professional
development, which is what informs my MMVC16 presentation.

I have been an English teacher for over 7 years now. 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). I am
studying online to get my TESOL certificate from the Arizona State
University via Coursera. In July 2016, I am starting a double Master: a
Ma TESOL and a Máster Universitario en Lingüística Aplicada a la
enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera. I have hosted many
webinars on WizIQ during different MOOCs to share the valuable
knowledge that I had the blessing to get. I am a grammar enthusiast.
You can find all my Grammar Guides posted on eslprintables.com. I tutor
students for TOEFL and TOEFL IBT tests lately. It is great to see them
thrive and get great scores. I believe in learning as a way of living and
teaching as a way of giving back to our community.

Currently pursuing masters education in
University of Oulu, Finland in Education and
Globalisation. She has 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, and in the process of writing a book
on educational issues in Malaysia
Azmira Amran

Susan Hillyard originally from Liverpool, UK and now based in Buenos Aires,
Argentina has a B.Ed.(Hons) from Warwick University U.K. and came late to
technology but has embraced it believing it can transform the teaching/learning
process. She has work experience in seventeen countries as a teacher, HOD,
director, speaker, workshop facilitator, consultant, researcher, materials/
articles/books writer and on-line tutor. She was Prof. Language IV in Lenguas
Vivas and UTN Teacher Training Colleges, Bs As., Argentina. She has co-
authored a Resource Book for Teachers Global Issues for OUP and TDI-TKT
On-line Course for Pearson, New York.She has written and tutored 4 on-line
courses and was an EVO Drama Moderator for TESOL for 7 years. Former
coordinator: English in Action, teaching English through Drama in Special
Education, Ministry of Education, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.She has now
opened her own on-line academy: SHELTA:
https://www.facebook.com/susanshelta/
e-mail:ssnhillyard@gmail.com
blogspot: http://susanhillyard.blogspot.com.ar/
c-group: http://thecreativitygroup.weebly.com/

Dani Novak - Born in Israel in 1949, BA and MA
from the Technion in Haifa and PhD in Pure Math
from the University of Connecticut. Taught for 33
years at Ithaca College. Designed new courses:
Math Art and Math Fun that connects Math with
Music, Art and Life. I am looking for opportunities
to share the beauty of Math with people in the US
and other countries. I want to inspire teachers,
administrators and parents to free themselves from
the shackles of a dysfunctional systems that rob
young students from their natural math abilities
and teaches them incompetence.

Julie Pratten is originally from the UK, currently living in Turkey. After teaching both
business and general English in 20 countries or more, including Brazil, Germany, Lithuania
and Paraguay, I entered the world of finance via the Czech Republic, after I designed a
series of courses for the Czech National Bank. I have since written several business and
finance titles, including ‘Absolute Financial English’, the main course book for the
Cambridge ESOL ‘ICFE examination’ and ‘Absolute Financial English’ (Delta).
Nowadays I live in Turkey, with my husband, two cats, dogs and chickens. Although I live
in a rural setting, just a stone’s throw away from the sea, I provide language consultancy
for several financial institutions and deliver courses at the Banks Association of Turkey
and the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. My current interests include developing
mobile applications for EAP and recent applications include ‘Brighton Study Kit’ and
‘Academic Flip Words’. I have just set up the independent platform ‘Academic Study Kit’.
Currently, I am working on the business English course book ‘Good Business English’; this
modular course uses sustainable and ethical business models as vehicles for teaching
business English. In my opinion, this is the only way forward.
In September I set up Heart ELT, a project aimed at establishing a school for Syrian
children living in a refugee camp in Iraq.

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