I offer one-to-one and group courses for business and general English. I also provide teacher training sessions on web 2.0 tools and Second Life in language education.
I co-moderated the free 6-week EVO session "Virtual Worlds and Language Learning" in 2009 http://3.ly/tED and Teaching Languages in a Virtual World in 2010 http://3.ly/WdJb.
I am one of the five trainers of the first certified teacher training course in the EU-funded AVALON project http://avalon-project.ning.com.
My key interests include learner motivation, encouraging learner autonomy, ICT and the use of Web 2.0 tools and Virtual Worlds in teaching and learning languages.
I have finished the one-year postgraduate programme MUVEnation ‘Teaching and learning with MUVEs’ funded by the EU and am enrolled in the MA in Educational Technology and TESOL at the University of Manchester.
My article "Starting a Second Life" published in ETp, issue 61, can be read on my blog: http://snurl.com/eg9wk
An interview with me about teaching languages in Second Life by Tara Benwell, TEFL.net http://3.ly/91B
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So, what’s the added value of SL for ELT? - yesterday
This question (in a more general form; not related to ELT) crops up every now and then on the...
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Recording video in SL – copyright issues - 3 days ago
As I mentioned in part 1 of the recording video blog posts, I have only recently started recording...
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Virtual “Makkah” and Al Andalus in Second Life - 1 week ago
We are in week 3 of our Teaching Languages in a Virtual World seesion, which is all about real life...
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It’s burning? What now? - 2 weeks ago
A Second Life language lesson using a simulation As part of the “Teaching Languages in a...
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Homeless in SL - 2 weeks ago
Two weeks ago, I was checking my email when suddenly there was a flood of messages from Second Life...
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Online Session: Teaching Languages in a Virtual World - 3 weeks ago
It’s EVO time again! The EVO (Electronic Village Online) sessions are free 6-week online...
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Accessibility of video tutorials and Second Life - 3 weeks ago
Through a comment by David Miller on my blog about recording videos in SL, I came to this blog with...
http://nergizkern.edublogs.org/
My blog for reflections on the Electronic Village Online sessions I participate in.
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