7th Annual MoodleMoot Virtual Conference Syllabus and Presenters

Dr. Nellie Deutsch (Ed.D) is an education technology
relationship-based mentor to educators worldwide.
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, Screencast-o-matic, and google drive
to promote active learning and teaching as a way to
learn.

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.

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.

Talila is an expert in situated digital learning. She creates
with high school and university students from universities
in Madrid-Spain, Puebla- Mexico,Pinerolo- Italy
experiential interactive maps.
She teaches online via interactive platform in Mofet
international channel in Israel. Talila is eager to develop
educators in museums with their own expertise in the
area of solving problems and creating original contents .
She also conducted a workshop in UNESCO Mobile
Learning Week in Paris. The projects around the world
are in the site.

Gonzalo Reina has a Master degree in Physics Science and he has
been working as a teacher at a secondary school in Madrid for many
years. Maths and other science subjects. He also taught at a high school
in Houston, TX, and he also worked on IT for many years
Gonzalo is co-founder of onetoonespeaking.com with Javier. Javier and
Gonzalo share a friendship and the same profession. Furthermore, they
had similar experiences while they were learning other languages, so
that is why they decided to create this platform.
They built a website to help people improve their speaking without
having to go abroad many times. They finally found the strength and
time to do it. So here it is: onetoonespeaking.com
They truly hope that their website will become a meaningful tool for your
learning.

Jeff Cooper: This is me a few years ago; few > 40! 😆 I was born and raised in
Berkeley, California and started Cal when I was 16. I studied Philosophy, Political
Science and Economics. At 19 I hit the wall; bi-polarity (then called “manic-depressive”)
manifested itself. At 22, after dropping out of Cal I rode my bicycle from Berkeley to
Boulder (1800 miles through Oregon in 26 days) to “get myself together” before returning
to Cal and majoring in Rhetoric and simultaneously studying Drama and performing in
plays. However I could not complete Berkeley due to my condition. I went to San
Francisco State where I received my degree in Drama Education, and Professional Clear
Teaching Credential in English. My major teaching took place at Richmond High (of
“Coach Carter” fame) where I taught English and ESL for four years. In 1996 I had 170
9th graders, 20 languages, 25 gangs and an average reading level of 3rd. I also had this
newfangled thing called “The Internet.” I hooked up with Yvonnes Marie Andres through
the Global SchoolNet and the Newsday Project; 27 schools internationally made school
newspapers based on articles written by students. My students were published more
than any other school because they had stories to tell. In 2000 I became the Education
Technology Specialist for the College of Education at Pacific University in Forest Grove. I
volunteered over 30,000 hours over a 15 year period at Tapped In an “Educational
MUVE” where I helped teachers create virtual classrooms, add resource rooms and
more. I am now attempting to revive TI and create collaborative virtual school districts
internationally.

Susan Brodar was born in London and brought up bilingual English /
Italian. After attending school in London until 15, she finished her
British education at Munich International School. There she started
teaching Italian at evening classes aged only 17 while studying Mass
Communications and Journalism at Munich University, Germany. She
continued teaching parallel to interpreting at trade fairs and business
meetings as well doing translations. Today she is a freelance English
language teacher both online and face-to-face. She also creates online
English courses for independent learners. With over 39 years of
teaching mainly English but also other languages, she has acquired
experience in teaching a range of ages from toddlers to adults, with
obviously varying methods, including university undergraduates,
postgraduates and teacher trainees. She also prepares students for a
variety of certifications. Passionate in teaching languages, she is
constantly researching engaging ways of teaching all ages and
believes in full-immersion.

Parminder Mitter Chaudhuri is Lecturer,in Food Production
and Food Science and Nutrition with over 20 years experience
of teaching. She is Ignou Counsellor as well. She has taught in
junior and senior sections in school. Now,she is full time
Lecturer in graduate college. She is the President of Women
Cell in the College.
She is a Qualified Learning Facilitator,from Lausanne School
of Hotel Management, Switzerland. She has a Train The
Trainer Certificate from MPDC.She is Graduate with Zoology
Honors, has Diploma in Management and professional degree
in Hotel Management.She is a Moodler.
She is passionate about learning and the use of technology for
simplifying the process of learning.
She is pursuing Masters Degree now.

Rob Howard is the owner of Online Language Center,
founder and partner at Business Language Training
Institute and founder of EFLtalks. He is a teacher,
writer and frequent worldwide speaker discussing
Business English, Teacher Development, teaching
online and about using technology and images. He is
president of the new BRAZ-TESOL BESIG, a member
of the IATEFL BESIG online team, Online Event
Coordinator and interviewer for the Visual Arts Circle
and co-founder of the Independent Authors &
Publishers Group. He lives in both Brazil and Poland.

I am currently working as Professor and Head in the Department of
English in B.S.Abdur Rahman University, Chennai. I teach technical
English and business English to engineering students. I served as
Visiting Consultant for one semester in Sultan Qaboos University,
Muscat in 2008. I am a teacher trainer and have been regularly
conducting workshops for teachers of colleges and schools. I am
guiding research scholars in the field of ELT and CALL. I have
authored three books and nearly 9 articles in refereed journals. I am
one of the Editors for International Journal of Computer Assisted
Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) since 2009 and
Handbook of Research on Individual Differences in CALL since 2014. I
have conducted many projects on developing communication skills
with the help of technological tools with students and this presentation
will deal with one of them.

M.A. Senior Lecturer Wrocław University of Science and
Technology - Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27 50-370 Wrocław,
Poland. Emeritus.
I am an enthusiastic online non-native English teacher. I
have been teaching English online since 2010. I have taught
children as well as adults. I have a master’s degree in
education from the University of Wroclaw, Poland, Philology,
Linguistics Jul 1974.
After 40 years of teaching in traditional classroom settings, I
grow into an experienced online professional tutor. I
specialize in Conversational English.
As a non-native ESL teacher, I’m at a disadvantage when
compared to native English speakers.
I am involved in the TEFL EQUITY ADVOCATES movement,
which was initiated by Marek Kiczkowiak.

“Learning is an adventure for life” is the vision that Sheryl
McCoy shares. She teaches and judges online and face-to-
face contests, workshops, and courses,developing a fusion
of teaching tools, Inquiry based skills, and interests.
Sheryl earned a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Ed, as
well as a Masters degree in Curriculum & Instruction in
Environmental Science at Pittsburg State University,
Pittsburg, Kansas.
Today, Sheryl lives with her family on their sustainable farm
in the Central Plains of the United States where she works
and volunteers in a variety of settings, including face to face
and online within informal education networks.

Nives Torresi is a Teacher, at Classical Studies High
School (Italy), of English Conversation & English
Drama; English Exam Preparation (Cambridge FCE &
PET) and Business English to local corporations.
Nives also translates from Italian to English
(specializing in Business Manuals, Historical archives &
Medical papers), works as Interpreter and Mediator for
Business negotiations.
Also teaches online via interactive learning platforms
for Business & Conversation English courses &
Language tutoring. Participates actively in online
Teacher Training or development courses such as
Moodle for Teachers and Teaching with Technology,
More about Nives

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”.

John Allan is an education technology specialist based in
Qatar and Canada. John has been involved in the adult
language teaching English for 30 years as an instructional
designer, trainer, instructor, blogger, writer & course
developer. He has facilitated over 200 unique education
technology workshops and webinars.
He is currently developing learning objects and teaching in
Doha, Qatar and developing training materials and
mentoring instructors for the LearnIT2teach project in
Canada.

Harshita Kapoor is the co-founder of Codewizacademy, an e-learning
portal designed and developed for teaching Core programming and IT
related skills. Before devoting herself to developing pathbreaking
modules in e-learning, she has worked as an educationist, being a
faculty at prominent educational institutes in the K-12 sector. She was
also entrusted with various special assignments such as content
reviewing and instructional designing for school learning solutions.
She holds a Masters degree in Computer Application. She has also
been conferred with various certifications in recognition of her
programming skills, such as OCPJP by Oracle. She has a rare
distinction of being certified as Cyber Crime Investigator by ASCL,
India. This helped her deal with Cyberbullying and challenges related
to being online, for school students. She has also conducted several
seminars on Cyber Security for students, management and parents at
the K-12 level. She is passionate about teaching, mainly
programming and related subjects since that is her forte.

Helen Chenoby is a Maths, IT, English as a Second
Language (ESL) and Russian Language teacher in high
school and higher education, lives in Melbourne,
originally from Russia. She runs her own Moodle courses
for many different curricular, including Mathematics,
Information Technology and ESL curriculum. She is
interested in the application of emerging Internet
technologies to education and development of eLearning
materials which are both engaging and innovative with
the use of Moodle. Her quantitative research study
found that student’s Moodle usage affect student final
mark in mathematics.

Poonam Vohra has a postgraduate degree in Economics and
in Education; earned a certification for Teaching Online from
University of New South Wales; and for being a Microsoft
Innovator in Education Expert from Microsoft. She has also
earned certificates for completing online courses relating to
technology and education from IT4ALL and Microsoft.
She has been teaching to the senior school students for the
last more than 25 years and adopted diverse pedagogies to
enhance student learning. She has conducted workshop
offline for teachers teaching economics and also presented
online to the global audience.
She believes in adopting democratic and flexible approach in
handling changes and constantly updating skills for
continuous professional development. Her goal is to be a
lifelong learner.

Ewa Kozłowska is a graduate student of Mechanical-Medical
Engineering, interacademic field of study run cooperatively by
Gdańsk University of Technology and Medical University of
Gdańsk, Poland. She has started her adventure with e-
learning in May 2015 by volunteering in SP4CE ERASMUS+
project and taking part in Moodle MOOCs. She is a certified
Fusion 360 instructor at the Autodesk Authorised Training
Centre at the Gdansk University of Technology. She is
working on the topic of medical devices designing with the
usage of computer collaboration tools by engineers and
physicians.

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.

Nataša Božić Grojić is an EFL teacher and a British
Council-certified teacher trainer. She works at
Zadužbina Ilije M. Kolarca in Belgrade and her
students are adults and teenagers. She has been
working as a language teacher for 28 years and still
believes it is the best job in the world. She spends a
lot of time online, learning and sharing with other
teachers. She is passionate about blogging and digital
storytelling. She blogs at http://lunas994@gmail.com .

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.

Nicolas Martignoni was a professor of ICT integration
at the Fribourg University of teacher education from 2001
to 2008. From 2008 to 2017, he was the director of the
ICT Centre for schools in Fribourg. He has been the
coordinator of the French-speaking community of Moodle
users since 2003. He is the creator of the MoodleBox.
The MoodleBox is a cheap mobile device providing a
complete Moodle learning environment and built on a
Raspberry Pi computer. MoodleBox is used on every
continent, all around the world.
Nicolas Martignoni regularly speaks at national and
international conferences.

Jim Baker, a self-identifying maverick, is a teacher of
48 years. He has written for the Guardian, and the
majority of his career was spent as a chemistry teacher
at Lincoln Christ's Hospital School. In his penultimate
year he was awarded a 'Lifetime achievement Award'.
He is a freelance educational consultant, and acted as
Chemistry Expert for The Chemistry Journey Project’s
Virtual School Initiative. He is a contributory author of
Teaching Secondary Science, Constructing Meaning
and Developing Understanding, 4th Edition. He is a
pioneer of ‘Flipped Learning’ and trains educationalists
world-wide on ‘flipped learning’ and ‘cloud computing’.

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