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Cristina Palomeque (aka Cristina Papp) is an English teacher at the Official School of Languages in
Barcelona, Spain as well as an online teacher for the University of Barcelona. She has also been teaching
English and Methodology in the Teacher Training Faculty of the University of Barcelona in Spain. Currently
she is doing research in language teaching and learning processes in virtual worlds.
Dennis Newson
Dennis Newson stopped teaching full-time in 2000, but that has given him more chance to become
enthusiastic about the potential use of TEFL in SL. If you are seriously interested in my curriculum vitae,, just
go 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 learning
languages. At the moment she is enrolled in a one-year postgraduate certificate course ‘Teaching and
learning with MUVEs’ (Massively Multi-User Virtual Environments) funded by the EU. Her next goal is an MA
in Educational Technology and TESOL. Nergiz blogs about her "Teaching in Second Life" experience here:
http://slexperiments.edublogs.org
Nick Noakes
Nick Noakes (http://ihome.ust.hk/~ctnick/) works in educational development and his passion is emerging
technologies in education. He was an ESL teacher and teacher developer for close to 20 years before
moving into teacher development full-time. His current position is Director, Center for Enhanced Learning
and Teaching at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (http://celt.ust.hk). He began working
in text- based virtual worlds (MOOs) in the mid-nineties and has been working in the virtual world of Second
Life for over 2 years. He co-ran the biweekly New Media Consortium Teacher Buzz sessions from Jun 2006
to May 2008. He is currently advising the University of Surrey on their virtual world projects and also works
as a volunteer in a number of mentor groups for people new to Second Life.
Howard Vickers is the founder and director of Avatar Languages (www.avatarlanguages.com), an online
language school using Second Life and other online collaborative tools. He is a qualified English teacher
with international TEFL teaching experience in Spain, Russia and Bolivia.