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Nergiz Kern

Daffodil Fargis

RL: General, Business and Technical English to adults, Exam preparation, (German and Turkish).

SL: General English course, pre-intermediate. Plan to take Bus.Engl. students to SL to practise meetings, etc.

Alicia Barbitta

Wonderalica Alturas

RL: Business and Tech.English to 
 adults.BECexams.w.w.focus.edu.uy

SL: Took TTC. Experienced some

       inworld classes.

       Recently launched Business

       EnglishandSpanish

       Conversation courses in

       'Virtlantis' -Launchroom 30.

Elderbob Brannan

Elderbob Beaumont

Graham Stanley

Baldric Commons

RL: EFL (Young Learners) and ESP (Tourism)

SL: not teaching but am involved in language learning in http://teen.secondlife.com for the British Council

Vance Stevens

Webhead Link

Pete MacKichan

Pete McConachie

RL: Educational Technologist, EFL Teacher (EAP, Business, Legal).

SL: ex-LanguageLab materials writer/teacher, I'm now developing my own project.

I s m a i l

Horizon Mile

RL: ESL/ TOEFL & IELTS Pre./ CALL.

SL: still exploring..

RL: Design and develop materials for ELT, both online and print; give professional development courses for EFL teachers

SL: total newbie...hope to learn a lot from all of you!

 Dafne Gonzalez

Daf Smirnov

RL: 1.  ESP (Eng. for Architecture / Urban Planning)  2. Teacher Education (Technology - methodology - Alternative Assessment)

SL: Spanish & SL skills for teachers at Languagelab.com

Michael Shade

Misha Writer

RL: I teach Spanish at the University of Brighton, UK

SL: Misha stumbles about from time to time. Still trying to get Uni to allow access.

 Susana Canelo

 Susana Capra

 Maru del Campo

 Mmvcentro Jewell

 RL: General English Lessons, TOEFL Preparation Lessons, Private Practice as Psychologist, Enabling Computer Literacy with LearnFree (AprendeLibre) and BaeL free sites. BaeL site is a closed site, if you wish to join please end me an email to grant you access. Thanks.

SL: Planning to develop and offer General English and Spanish lessons

Robert Squires

 Rian Staheli

 Dot MacKenzie

 Zahir Tiki

Anne Breckenridge

Golondrina Bracken

Dennis Newson

Osnacantab

RL: ESP and General English for students majoring in economics at uni.

SL: Learning myself to move around.

Natasa Bozic Grojic

Natalija Wingtips

RL: General English - adults.

SL: a total beginner

Minhaaj ur Rehman

Minhaaj Thespian

RL - Human Resource Management and ESL teacher

SL - Educational Technology and developing

RL: Msc in EFL. ESP teacher at the School of Education - Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Webhead since 2005. Founder member of Avealmec (Venezuelan CALL Association), 2007

SL: Receiving training to teach Spanish

RL: Business English Teacher, Teacher Trainer

SL: Still have lots to learn and explore

Aeon

RL: Designs and develops on line materials for ELT (specially blogs)  t; give professional development courses for EFL teachers. Webhead since 2002. WorldCall 2008 awardee. Writing Matrix leader in Argentina.

SL: neither a newbie nor an expert

Isabelle Jones

 Isabelle Firanelli

RL: Language teacher (French and Spanish with some experience of German and EFL) in a 11-16 school in England.

Qualified translator/ interpreter, tech enthusiast and keen blogger (My Languages blog)

SL: Keen to explore the possibilities of SL for language teaching (Newbie)

RL - Teaching teachers and/or children computer skills in the UK.

SL - Learning Spanish:-) Currently helping to create a project for developing literacy skills based on Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-cat nonsense poem.

RL: Italian SL teacher at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona and Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.

SL: Learning every day.

At the moment, experimenting with some teaching as well http://italianiamo.wordpress.com  (to read about some of the activities http://italianiamo.wordpress.com/category/attivita-italianiamo/

and entertaining myself creating freebies

http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&MerchantID=118864

RL: English teacher, NPUE
Student, always

SL: Do you ever feel like you just don't have a second life?

SL: EFL Teacher Training facility at SLEnglish on Virtlantis Island. Also, member of Chilbo Community and various SL Groups (DEN, ISTE, META, SLEnglish, TNC, etc.)

Babette Hanson

SL: Very keen to explore as much about this new virtual world as possible. Interested in the possibilities for manipulating free code.

RL: English tutor in UK, 16+ college - ESOL,  IELTS & FCE

SL: exploring the teaching potential

Doug Canfield

RL: French/ESL instructor, Director of LRC @ UTK

SL:  Owner of VolNation, ESL writer/teacher  at Languagelab.com

RL: EFL Ptofessor at URBE in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Webhead Member since 2002. Created the ning scommunity EFL University and numerous blogs in both Spanish and Eglish. Everybody is invited to join us!

SL: newvie... but loving what I have learned so fast... looking forward to create, participate and share great adventures.

Betty

Draken

RL: ESL adult educator currently working in both classroom and online contexts.

SL: Exporing possibililtes. Unsure how sucessful SL platform is for intermed/lower levels. Enjoying the SL experience so far!

RL: Italian as a Second Language to: immigrant students (from pre-school to high school), university students

SL: designing lesson plans for Italian language students,

tutoring

RL : English teacher in secondary school France

SL : Learning all the time - a beginner

I can't seem to upload a photo - will try again soon

RL: EFL (young learners & adults); teacher trainer (elementary teachers); materials writer (Let's Go Third Edition as Barbara Hoskins, pub. Oxford U. Press)

SL: permanent student, I think!

Simon Bourn

RL: English teacher at a graduate school of engineering, Nantes, France; business and live online language training (English and French) through Englishonthe.net.

SL: Teaching role-play-based business English with Talkademy.  Experimenting with my own learning space at Virtatlantis.

RL: Language Teacher (ESL and Spanish). Educational Technologist.

SL: Learning to have a life in SL. Exploring teaching and learning a lot from others.

RL: Language Teacher (EFL at  Gornjogradska Gimnazija Zagreb, Croatia, and Italian as a foreign language at the same high school)

SL: Still learning about SL and teaching in SL

Retired Professor of CALL, former teacher of German, ICT nerd and SL addict. I manage the EUROCALL HQ  in SL on EduNation III and I am the EUROCALL rep for the Joint CALICO/EUROCALL Virtual Worlds SIG. I have written a large section on SL in Section 14.2.1 of Module 1.5 at the ICT4LT website.

http://grahamdavies.wikispaces.com

ICT-E Consultant at Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. Long time passion for CALL. Current interest MOOving to exploring 3D effectiveness for SLA. Involved in AW and SL projects (ViTAAL & NIFLAR). More info and papers here:
http://www.callinpractice.net/koenraad/vrall-2

RL: Assistant Professor of Translation and Interpretation at Izmir University of Economics

RL:

1) Corporate Language Training

2) Live Online English Teacher ( www.cwcnow.com )

3) Live Online Teacher Trainer

( www.lancelotschool.com )

SL: (but it is 'real' too! *grin*)

1) Part of the AVALON project

2) Will teach a Business English course (starting in June 2009)

RL: Language Technology Specialist at Victoria University of Wellington, NZ .

I train language teaching staff to integrate technology in teaching and learning.
Formerly teacher and teacher trainer of French and English FL in  Asia, England and NZ.

SL: Interested in French FL teaching and learning on SL
Very willing and excited to observe and contribute to SLanguage's CoP,

firmly believe that there is an immense potential for blended and distance learning and cultural exchanges :-)

Helen Myers

email

RL: Assistant Head and Language teacher at The Ashcombe School, Surrey, UK - an 11-18 state comprehensive where I  lead regular, free workshops on use of ICT for Language teaching. Moderator of a popular Yahoo language teacher group: mflresources.  Chair of the ALL London branch.  ALL is the UK's only independent professional language teacher association.

SL: Keen to use SL  as a venue for socialising and learning language and language methods  with the many people/friends I  meet 'virtually' on email fora.  Have rented land from Edunation here. Have set up an ALL/mflresources SL group to make newbies feel safe as they take their first steps (hopefully they will migrate to SLExperiments!)  I learn Italian with Anna Begonia in her Italianiamo group on Monday evenings - è una insegnante magnifica! Grazie Anna!  Eventually would love to teach in a secure-for-teenagers SL look-alike!

RL: French Teacher

Teaching in Secondary Education in Greece. Also taught English in the past. Interested in the implementation of ICT in the language classroom. Just started writing my master's thesis on Virtual Reality and Language Teaching.

SL: Absolute beginner, but willing to be fully engaged for the purposes of my thesis. My plan is to create a virtual application, test it and report on its efficiency. I hope I can meet virtual friends as well...

RL: Assistant Lecturer in Italian as a Foreign Language in Third Level Education. Teaches classes at all levels and is VERY interested in CALL and ICT for language teaching and learning. Designs and develops teaching material. Involved in teacher training.

SL: exploring for the moment. Trying to set up a pilot class to research Intercultural Awareness and Communication in SL.

RL: Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of the West of England.

SL: Born earlier on this year. Still exploring the endless possibilities to increase the cultural awareness and linguistic practice of my students.

RL: Lecturer in ESL, University of Maryland College Park (USA)

SL: not teaching, have taken some workshops and attended presentations.  Still learning!

RL: Teacher mentor, and English teacher at a scondary school in the Middle East.

SL: Absolute beginner trying to learn, network, get involved with the community

RL: EFL teacher, researcher on New ICTs of mass and local newspaper writer in

Palmas-TO, BR

(www.gutembergfox.com)

SL: Newbie :-)

Professor at School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?, Poland. I teach and do research in  EFL phonetics, lexicography and ICT.  In Second Life I am running "Pronunciation with Wlodek Barbosa" consultation sessions for EFL learners on UWA Virtlantis, as part of SLEnglish community service.

e-mail: swlodek@ifa.amu.edu.pl
official website: http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/fa/Sobkowiak_Wlodzimierz
personal website: http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~swlodek/
Skype: wasobk
Facebook: http://pl-pl.facebook.com/people/Wlodzimierz-Sobkowiak/730881500
Ning: http://slenglish.ning.com/profile/WlodzimierzSobkowiak
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/a/599/482
SL home: http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA%20Virtlantis/222/227/56/
SL work: http://slurl.com/secondlife/UWA%20Virtlantis/218/200/46/?img=http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~swlodek/Barbosa6.jpg&title=Wlodek%20Barbosa%27s%20launchroom%20in%20UWA%20Virtlantis&msg=Free%20EFL%20pronunciation%20sessions!

I specialize in: IT and ICT for humanities, teacher training, EFL, CALL and others.

LinkedIn: http://pl.linkedin.com/pub/pawel-topol/2/172/bb4

SL:  Exploring SL and other VW’s for their educational functionality, especially in FLL and FLT.

EFL teacher at LanugageLab, the largest language school in SL: http://www.languagelab.com/howitworks/teachers/

Angelika

Guettl-Strahlhofer

email

Skype:

angelika_guettl

Mounia Kajjou

Stella Umino

Mouni Davi

RL: Moderator of DaF-community, a live-online community of language teachers, mainly German as foreign language http://dafnet.web2.0campus.net, (website and weekly meetings are held in German), besides (online) trainer and consultant for web based learning and working.

SL: made first  experiences with SL during workshop "Teaching languages in virtual worlds 10". In these weeks I realized that SL is an "ideal" tool for language learning. Now I am trying to get more experience in SL, firstly learning - grateful for all tips and hints.

I'm an EFL teacher who is interested in using technology in teaching. I teach 3rd grade students at a state secondary school in Sale, Morocco. In SL I'm rather a newbie. I joined the EVO sessions 2010 and I'm looking forward to learn more about teaching in SL.

RL: Language teacher (German-native, English, Spanish) online and offline see

www.visualcv.com/cpiemont

SL: trying to be a professional teacher as well - recently set up shop and now looking for students :-)

RL: Teacher Trainer/ Online Trainer/ Language Teacher

Director of ICC International Language Network

www.icc-languages.eu

Working in a number of EU projects. SL: Learner/ Observer/ trying to find out the added value SL can bring to language teaching and intercultural learning.

www.avalonlearning.eu

RL: Teacher educator with a special interest in technology supported teacher education. Responsible for the Manchester MA in Educational Technology and TESOL.  Also the co-ordinator of the European Commission funded AVALON project. Vist our project web pages, or our Ning.

RL: In progress of completing Master of Education - Training & Development

Owner of e-Action Alliance, consulting with small and medium sized enterprises in the areas of:

Organization Development, e-Learning development, Global Team Building & Collaborative Teams

SL: Participant in Muvenation program Nov 2008-June 2009, interested in research of how SL is being used successfully for collaborative learning

RL: postgraduated student in Second language acquisition & multimedia, foreign language teacher

SL: observer of foreign languages learning & teaching in formal and informal ways,  language learner

RL: Flexible Learning Advisor at & EAL Tutor (CALL), student in MUV601, trying to explore all virtual worlds

SL: Language Learner, Language Exchange co-ordinator, Observer, (newbie) Scripter & Builder, Sloodler

Blog: www.kiwibelma.wordpress.com

Wiki: www.kiwibelma.wikispaces.com

Carmela

Dell'Aria

Misy

Ferraris

RL: teacher of English and Italian as Foreign language.

Specialized teacher for students in special needs.

PhD student in MODERN LITERATURES AND PHILOLOGICAL - LINGUISTICS STUDIES 

SL:  Designing, testing and implementing Italian short courses.

Investigating  the potentials of MUVEs for foreign language learning.

Training Italian teachers in SL

Blog: http://call-slingua.blogspot.com/ 

RL : EEL teacher (young learners)- previously taught adults, general English, conversation, and English for Business.

SL : a beginner (still exploring !!!!) 

Susan

Gowans 

Suzie

Sorciere 

RL: MSc TESOL student

SL: Still learning, but at the same time exploring the learning and teaching potential in SL 

RL:  Teaching computer stuff in a large french motor-car compagny, mostly small groups classes or individual coaching, Tutoring. Former Unix and IT network admin. Geek, Dad, and almost nolifer on my spare time :)

SL: Multimorph. Bringing smiles to sl residents, building silly things, learning forever.

Quotes: "omg 3am! I shuld be in bed, i'll be wrecked at work later, c u byeee" -

"SL ? .. and what else? It cost an eye to own a descent plot !" - "What is the next step about immersion ? Is it good or not ?"

RL: Lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia teaching Chinese language and culture and researching language learning in virtual worlds.

SL: Have been in SL since 2007. Have taught undergraduate Chinese language & culture lessons since 2008 on our island Chinese Island. For information on what we do see http://www.virtualhanyu.com