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Sessions Timetable


Sunday sessions at Tapped In. We will meet at Tapped In every Sunday at noon GMT. You are all welcome to these meetings

Meet our international guest speakers!






Week 1

WeekSpeakerSpeaker's bioVenue and Time in GMT
1
BJ Berquist
BJ Berquist is an art teacher at the Loysville Youth Development Center, a residential male juvenile correctional facility in central Pennsylvania, USA. She was involved in the planning of the Civil Rights Forum held in TAPPED IN in May, 1998, leads several discussions at TAPPED IN, and is a Help Desk volunteer. BJ is an Associate Educator at TAPPED IN and edits the Tapis Newsletter and the Events Calendar. Look at http://www.tappedin.org/info/members/bj.html to learn more about what she does at TAPPED IN and to see her smiling face!Tapped In (TI)
Sunday, Jan 20,
at 17:00 GMT
 Chatlog Summary




Week 2

WeekSpeakerSpeaker's bioVenue and Time in GMT
2


Michael Coghlan

Michael Coghlan has designed and delivered online courses in ESL, eModeration, and Using Online Technologies, and is an online instructor for the Graduate Certificate in eLearning delivered by Adelaide Institute of TAFE. He has written widely on issues to do with elearning, and presented at several international conferences, both physically and as a remote presenter. As a Flexible Learning Leader for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework in 2003 Michael researched the use of online voice technologies. Not surprisingly, he is a passionate believer in the power of online voice communications to inspire and motivate studentsYahoo Messenger
Thursday, Jan 24
at 12:00 (noon) GMT
Session Page
2
Jeff Lebow

Dave Cormier
Jeff Lebow began his educational career as an elementary sschool teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After receiving a Master's Degree in Training and Learning Technologies, he moved to Asia where he taught English as a Foreign Language for 10 years. Since 1997, he has managed a variety of websites, explored the educational and cross cultural possibilities of webcasting, and worked toward building Worldbridges as a global network of homegrown webcasting
Dave Cormier started his teaching career in 1998 in South Korea, and started teaching online in 2000. He is currently the project manager for the digital library at UPEI in Charlottetown. His ed-tech interests include, podcasting, Elgg, Wordpress, Wiki's, the idea of publishing work to the internet as performance, and theorizing about the future of education. Jeff & Dave have co-hosted The EdTechTalk show and facilitated a variety of webcasts related to edtech at http://edtechtalk.com/
Worldbridges chat room
Voice in Skype

Part I:
Monday, Jan. 21
at Midnight GMT
Recording and chatlog
Part 2:
Sunday, Jan 27
at 17:00 GMT

Week 3

WeekSpeakerSpeaker's bioVenue and Time in GMT
3
Graham Stanley
Graham Stanley is an EFL teacher based in Barcelona, Spain. He is teacher and ICT co-ordinator for the British Council, Barcelona and also works at the school of tourism of the University of Ramon Llull in the same cityWiZiQ
Tuesday, Jan 29
at 21:00 GMT
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Week 4

WeekSpeakerSpeaker's bioVenue and Time in GMT
4


Jonathan Finkelstein

Jonathan Finkelstein is the founder and President of LearningTimes, LLC and Executive Producer of The LearningTimes Network. As an educator, technologist, industry expert, and producer, he is focused on creating and deploying engaging, web-based and web-enhanced human environments, programs and curricula that foster learning, collaboration and community. Over the last several years, he has worked with numerous leading educational, corporate, and publishing organizations to build learning programs and communities online, including: Columbia University, the New York Department of Education, Harvard, Princeton, CalState University, New Visions for Public Schools, The New York Transit Museum, Lehigh, Houghton Mifflin, NASA, MetLife, and The Princeton Review, among scores of others. For more information, click hereElluminate
Friday, Feb 8
at 17:00 GMT
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4
Andrew Pincon
Andrew Pincon is Chairman of the Inner City Computing Society a technology infrastructure provisioning, non-profit, providing design/build, turn-key infrastructure services to US Computer Training Centers (CTC) and the Chairman of the Digital Workforce Education Society. Mr. Pincon is also President and CEO of Alado Development, Ltd, a consulting engineering practice, with clients like the US Small Business Administration, The IL Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, OSHA, US Postal Service, Compaq Computer Corp. and Qwest Telecommunications. He is a member of Illinois Governor's Small Business Task Force and the Illinois eGovernment Working Group and on a number of other Chicago and Illinois technology committees. Mr. Pincon has over 30 years of international engineering and business experience.Alado
Saturday, Feb 9
at 17:00 GMT
Session Page

Week 5

WeekSpeakerSpeaker's bioVenue and Time in GMT
5
Rubena St. Louis
Rubena St. Louis has a MSc in Applied Linguistics from Simón Bolívar University, in Venezuela where she teaches in their graduate programme and ESP at undergraduate level. Her interests include cognition and learning, Materials development and Evaluation, Language Teaching Methodologies and ITC and Autonomous Learning.Webheads Elluminate Vroom
Frid. Feb 15 at 18:00 GMT
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Week 6

WeekSpeakerSpeaker's bioVenue and Time in GMT
6
Aiden Yeh

Rita Zeinstejer
Aiden is a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests are Teacher Professional Development (TPD), Educational Policies and Change, English Language Teaching (ELT) Management, and blended learning. She¡¦s a Webhead and a member of TESOL¡¦s Electronic Village Online 2004-2005 Sessions coordinating team. She teaches at Wen Zao Ursuline College of Foreign Languages in Taiwan. Email: aidenyeh@yahoo.com Website: http://dcyeh.com Research Epad:http://buxiban.blogspot.com

Rita is an EFL teacher with 30 years' experience teaching English at all levels, mainly preparing students to sit for Cambridge FCE and CAE at the Asociacion Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa in Argentina, only centre for Cambridge exams in the area, with 2,500 students of English as a foreign language. She is also a Cambridge Oral Examiner, Area Manager for Advanced Courses, and Self Access, Laboratory and Multimedia Coordinator. Rita has given several PPT Presentations on ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) for Language Learning in my place, and in Brazil, after having travelled to Cambridge in August, 1999, for a course on the use of computers for Language Learning. She has been the CALL SIG Coordinator in her area for 5 years now.
Alado
Tue. Feb 19 at 13:00 GMT
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