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SLanguages 2009 Presenterswww.SLanguages.net Gavin Dudeney [Dudeney Ge]
Gavin is Project Director for The Consultants-E and also runs the three island EduNation group in SL. Hehas produced a large collection of free SL gadgets for educators. The Consultants-E run regular training inSL for teachers and have also done island builds for colleges in the USA, the UK, Canada, Finland andSpain. More on the work of The Consultants-E can be found here: http://www.theconsultants-e.com
Iffaf Khan [ Iffaf Ling ]
Iffaf works as a tutor in Moodle and Virtual and Distance Learning Coordinator for the International Academyin the University of Essex She is also a content developer and writer for Languagelab.com.
Heike Philp [ Gwen Gwasi ]
Heike Philp aka Gwen Gwasi is founder and managing director of LANCELOT School GmbH, an accreditedtraining center for language trainers in the use of state-of-the-art virtual classroom technology. With over 20years in education and several years of teaching German in Japan and the UK, Heike took on the live onlinechallenge by starting a virtual language school and her experience subsequently led her to co-initiate boththe European funded LANCELOT project as well as the AVALON project.
Kip Boahn [ Kip Yellowjacket ]
Online/Offline Language & E-Learning Facilitator, Creator of Second Life English
António dos Reis/Xabier Basogain [ Barak Zapatero/Zubiria Rauch ]
Antonio dos Reis works at The Graal Institute (Lisbon, Portugal) and Xabier Basogain works at The BasqueCountry University, Bilbao, spain.
Jessica Driscoll [ Jessica Teacher ]
Jessica works for Languagelab.com.
Ton Koenraad [ Koen Antonioni ]
A.L.M. Koenraad, MA (Utrecht). As a senior ICT-E consultant at Hogeschool Utrecht University of AppliedSciences Ton Koenraad is involved in various (inter)national projects and participates in communities in thefields of modern languages, teacher education and e-learning. His publications are available from hispersonal pages at: http://www.koenraad.info 
Shiv Rajendra [ Kingsbury Yeats ]
Shiv co-founded Languagelab.com in 2005 and has overseen thousands of hours of research and testing inSecond Life, involving hundreds of students and dozens of educators from all over the world.
Paul Preibisch [ Fire Centaur ]
Paul is a research assistant for the SLOODLE project, which is funded by Eduserve, and lead by DanielLivingstone from the University of the West of Scotland
James T. Abraham [ Camisto Encinal ]
James T. Abraham teaches Spanish at Glendale Community College in Arizona. He has been working inSecond Life for over two years. His first SL project "Mi casa es su casa", an immersive, interactive househas led to his current sabbatical project which includes the development of an entire Mexican town thatincludes various levels of educational opportunity.
Gloria B. Clark [ Flora Almendros ]
Gloria Jeanne Bodtorf Clark is currently an Associate Professor of Humanities and Spanish at Penn StateUniversity, Harrisburg campus, teaching Spanish language and Humanities courses. She is also a member of the Graduate Humanities Faculty, with a specialty in Latin American literature and culture. Her latest bookis an edited version of La verdad sospechosa by Juan Ruíz de Alarcón, published in 2002 by Juan de laCuesta Press. At present, she is involved in a pedagogical study on the use of the metaverse, Second Life,in the Spanish classroom.
 
Bingxin Chi [ Mayia Seesaw ]
Mayia Seesaw (a.k.a. Bingxin Chi in Real Life). B.A. in English major from Wenzhou University in China.Mayia was born and grew up in Shangha and has gained TEM8 (Test for English Major Band 8) Certificateand is interested in Chinese promotion over the world.
Sally Langer [ Salsita Almendros ]
I've been working with Languagelab.com since October 2007. During this time I have been teaching classesand designing lessons and activities. My work has led me to think about the philosophical, social andpedagogical aspects of teaching and learning in an online immersive environment. Before coming toLanguagelab I taught English in 'real life' for about 8 years, namely in Australia, Japan and Mexico. Sinceearly childhood I have been making constant and oft thwarted attempts to jailbreak the high walls of theclassroom.
Tan Li Wee [ Liwei Velde ]
Ms Tan Li Wee has a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) from National Institute of Education,specialising in English Language. Having graduated from Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim WeeSchool of Communication and Information, she is equipped with both audio and visual production skills.Given her prior experience in using the Media and New Media to reach youth such as in the SingaporeStreet Festival, she believes in the immense potential that the New Media has in today’s classroom and isenthusiastic in integrating it in current pedagogical practices. She is currently teaching in Innova Junior College, Singapore.
Carol Rainbow [ Carolrb Roux ]
Carol is an Educational ITC Consultant working in Oxfordshire in the UK.
James T. Abraham [ Calisto Encinal ]
James T. Abraham teaches Spanish at Glendale Community College in Arizona. He has been working inSecond Life for over two years. His first SL project "Mi casa es su casa", an immersive, interactive househas led to his current sabbatical project which includes the development of an entire Mexican town thatincludes various levels of educational opportunity.
Dafne González/Cristina Palomeque [ Daf Smirnov/Cristina Papp ]
Dafne Gonzalez (aka Daf Smirnov) is a Full Professor at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuelawhere she teaches English for Architecture and Urban Planning blended courses at the undergradute level,and technology-related online courses at the graduate level. She has coordinated the Graduate Programs inEducation. She coordinated the TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) from 2006 to 2009, and has co-moderated, since 2004, the Becoming a Webhead 6-week online session of the EVO. She is now a member of the TESOL CALL-IS Steering Committee. Currently, she is the Head of the Spanish Program inLanguagelab.com. She has presented about teaching languages and teacher training in SL in differentonline and f2f events in the last 2 years.Cristina Palomeque (aka Cristina Papp) is an English teacher at the Official School of Languages inBarcelona, Spain as well as an online teacher for the University of Barcelona. She has also been teachingEnglish and Methodology in the Teacher Training Faculty of the University of Barcelona in Spain. Currentlyshe is doing research in language teaching and learning processes in virtual worlds.
Kate Boardman [ Kattan Hurnung ]
Medieval Historian turned slight geek from digitizing manuscripts in the 1990s. Now Head of E-learning at aUK university, passionate about creating real (even if virtual) learning experiences for students.
Dennis Newson
Dennis Newson stopped teaching full-time in 2000, but that has given him more chance to becomeenthusiastic about the potential use of TEFL in SL. If you are seriously interested in my curriculum vitae,, justgo to:http://www.dennisnewson.de 
Nergiz Kern
Nergiz Kern is a DELTA-qualified English teacher and has taught in various contexts in different countries.Now, she lives in Turkey and teaches online and in Second Life. Her key interests include learner motivation,encouraging learner autonomy, ICT and the use of Web 2.0 tools and virtual worlds in teaching and learninglanguages. At the moment she is enrolled in a one-year postgraduate certificate course ‘Teaching andlearning with MUVEs’ (Massively Multi-User Virtual Environments) funded by the EU. Her next goal is an MA
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