About the presenters and more from Moodle MOOC 9 November 1-December 4, 2016

1. Syllabus | Webinars | About the Presenters | MM9 Moodle Course | YouTube Playlist | Reflection Template
Moodle MOOC 9 (MM9) will take place from November 1 - December 4, 2016 on Moodle for
Teachers (M4T) website with Moodle 3.1. The purpose of the MOOC is to connect with educators
and provide them with theoretical and practical ideas on how to how improve instruction and
learning by teaching online with Moodle. The MOOC participants will learn about and practice the
features available on Moodle course and learning management system. The will apply and learn
about reflective practice, social and collaborative learning, cultural exchange and peace, personal
and professional development, community building, best practices and challenges involved in
teaching with and without technology, student engagement with the content, peers, and the
facilitator, and learning to teach online with Moodle course and learning management system.
@moode4teachers | #moodlemooc9

2. Syllabus | Webinars | About the Presenters | MM9 Moodle Course | YouTube Playlist | Reflection Template
@moode4teachers | #moodlemooc9
Canada Venezuela India

4. Dr. Nellie Deutsch (Ed.D) is an education technology practitioner,
English as a foreign language teacher trainer and faculty on leadership
fully online in the transpersonal graduate program at Atlantic University.
She’s on the IATEFL YLTSIG, EDMedia executive, WAOE, and TESOL
CALL-IS committees. Nellie has been teaching English to speakers of
other languages in high school and at the college level for over 35 years
and integrating technology since 1992. She organizes free online
programs for educators on how to manage and teach with Moodle and
integrate technology into face-to-face, blended, and fully online courses
online MOOCs, online conferences (Connecting Online and Moodle
MOOTs), and other online events such as Fall and Spring Blog
Festivals, EFLtalks, and EFL Magazine webinars. She is passionate
about instruction and learning and using technologies such as Moodle,
WizIQ, Knovio, PresentMe, Slidespeech, Screencast-o-matic, and
google drive as she applies mindfulness, the Silva Method, PAIRS, and
the Alexander Technique for active mindful learning and teaching as a

5. Tom Hodgers, originally from the north of England, has been living in
Venezuela for the last 39 years. A retired scientist, he has been a
Coordinator and Facilitator at Certificate and Diploma level at the Centro de
Extensiones de la Universidad José Antonio Páez in Valencia since 2006.
He has designed, and teaches bimodal and 100% on-line classes via
Moodle and WizIQ (both in English and Spanish) in the area of "Culture and
Language", Oriental Philosophy, and Professional/Technical Language for
Japanese, English and Irish Gaelic. He also gives face-to-face classes in
both English and Japanese Conversation. Tom has taken various courses
in on-line education over the past few years, specializing in Moodle and
WizIQ as LMS', and is a qualified international expert in e-Learning
Processes, Digital Media and Moodle (both in English and Spanish). He is
currently studying for his Doctorate in e-Learning. He has also co-
moderated (and still does) the very popular M4TALL Moodle, BlogFestivals,
SL and ELT-T MOOCS.

6. Dr Ramesh Sharma is an expert in open and distance and technology
mediated learning and has served Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
as Director of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia,
Indira Gandhi National Open University and University of Guyana,
Guyana, South America. He had been a member of Advisory Group on
Human Resources Development for the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD). While at University of Guyana he
also collaborated with UNDP for its Enhanced Public Trust, Security
and Inclusion (EPTSI) project, Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) and
United Nations Volunteer (UNV) to develop suitable educational
opportunities for communities and youth. Dr Ramesh Sharma is currently
working at Wawasan Open University, Malaysia, is an expert in open and
distance and technology mediated learning. Previously he has served
Commonwealth of Learning (COL) as Director of the Commonwealth
Educational Media Centre for Asia, Indira Gandhi National Open University
and University of Guyana, Guyana, South America.

8. Nives Torresi is a Teacher of English as a language, English Literature,
English Drama, Business English and English Exam Preparation
(Cambridge FCE). Nives also translates from Italian to English (with a
specialization in Business Manuals, History and Medical), works as
Interpreter and Mediator for Business negotiations. Pro Bono translations
for Children’s Hospitals.
Currently also teaches online via the WizIQ platform for English tutoring and
participates actively in online Teacher Training or development courses
such as M4T Moodle for Teachers, Teaching with Technology, Learn to
Blend and Flip with Technology, Action Research Projects to improve
Instruction and Learning.
Recent online Presentations include the One Foolish Monkey series on
Micro Teaching with co-Teacher Tom Hodgers, CO15 - Connecting Online
live Conference - "Understanding Pair Teaching in Micro Teaching Online"
with Tom Hodgers.
Webinars for IATEFL YLT SIG "Play, Learn and; Grow Together" an after
school English language learning project Teacher Experience Blog

9. 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 online tutor. She was Prof. Language IV in Lenguas
Vivas and UTN Teacher Training Colleges, Bs As., Argentina. She has
published “English through Drama” with Helbling, 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/

10. 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.

11. 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, she entered the world of finance via the Czech Republic, where
she designed Banking English courses for the Czech National Bank. She is the author
of several business and finance titles, including ‘Absolute Financial English’, ‘Absolute
Financial English’ (Delta) and Pocket Book of Business English.
Although Julie lives in a rural setting, with her husband, two cats, a dog and chickens,
just a stone’s throw away from the sea, she likes to get on the road and meet like-
minded people. Her interests include developing mobile applications for EAP; last year
she developed ‘Brighton Study Kit’ and ‘Academic Flip Words’. She also set up the Indie
publishing company ‘Academic Study Kit’ and was joint winner of the David Riley award
for Innovation with ‘AZ of Business English’. The same year, Julie established Heart
ELT, a non-profit organisation that supports children who have little or no access to
education by producing crowdsourced books. Heart ELT’s first publication ‘Hope Peace
Respect’ by Fluency MC contains the lyrics to Jason R.Levine’s amazing rap songs.
Nowadays Julie is working on ‘The Mission Possible’, a modular, crowdsourced course
that focuses on sustainable business. Julie is currently trying to get to grips with online
courses, writing teacher-to-writer programs and planning writer retreats for ELT. She is
very excited about writing her first story book, called ‘The Peace Plan’ with Julia G. Fox
of Clever Fox Press.

12. Syllabus | Webinars | About the Presenters | MM9 Moodle Course | YouTube Playlist | Reflection Template
Join us and other educators from around the world as we learn to integrate technology into
instruction and learning and collaborate in developing courses and better teaching and learning
techniques using Moodle, WizIQ, Screencast-o-matic, and google drive. You will learn to engage
students in active learning by allowing them to teach as a way to learn.