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Hello everybody! I'm Matteo and I'm a primary school teacher from Italy. I love using new technologies in my lessons and sharing my work with other teachers. i want to improve my skills in planning lessons and and try something really new, innovative.

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Hi, everyone! I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I've been teaching English for 15 years. I teach mostly Business English.
I love using new tools in my lessons.

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Hello everybody) I am an English teacher at the lyceum of Economics and Mathimatics . I am not very good at technology so I want to improve my skills and get to know something really innovative.

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Hi all. I'm a bit late too but looking forward to learning new things and sharing ideas. I'm a teacher trainer and I work in Spain, the UK, and online. I've been experimenting with digital technologies for a few years - but I'm certainly no techie! I've created blogs, podcasts, video courses and have written an ebook.

I'm particularly interested in promoting learner autonomy, flipping the classroom, and using digital tools to collaborate and provide feedback.

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Hi, dear friends :)

I have been enjoying a 4-month vacation so far, but I get back to work, I hope to be able to create an environment where technology plays a unifying and engaging role...

My name is Martin Perez, I live in Lima, Peru.

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I'm retired and presently teaching just one weekly f2f class where I use no technology at all, not even email! But when I was working at the U of Maryland, I used Canvas (most recently), blogs and wikis (pre-Canvas), podcasts (which I learned how to make in an EVO sessions) and different tools that I can't even remember now, and some of them are no longer available.

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Hello everyone! I am joining a bit late but am eager to catch up! I am currently teaching English at a prep school. I have been teaching English for more than 12 years and have dealt with age groups from 5 to 65. In my school, we do not use much technology in the classes (apart from occasional kahoot!) and since I am a techie I would like to learn more and I hope this course will help me to integrate more technology in my classes.

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Hello everyone, I'm a bit late but eager to catch up! I am currently teaching at a university prep school in Istanbul. I've been teaching for over 12 years and have worked with various age groups from 5 to 65. I am quite a techie but would like to develop myself even more and look for ways to integrate more technology into my classrooms. In my school technology is not integrated into the syllabus (apart from occasional kahoot!) and I would like to change that at least in my own classes. I have very recently started a blog and hope to use it as a record of the activities I use in class, reflections on the work I do and the system in which we do it and also to keep a record of what I have been doing in general. I hope this course helps me both with my classes and my blogging.

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Hi everyone, sorry to be joining the community so late. I've only just come across the course, but it looks fascinating! I work at emc design, (www.emcdesign.org.uk) we're a design agency that primarily works with ELT materials. We are very interested in learning more about the types of materials teachers and learners need now (that aren't currently available) as well as gaining a better understanding of how materials are used in the classroom. The aim is for us to always be designing (visually) better materials that engage the learner and helps us to understand more of the pedagogy.

I am also the Events Co-Ordinator for IATEFL's Materials Writing SIG (MaWSIG) so gaining an understanding of LD for this perspective of my working life is also very interesting.

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Hi everybody!

I live in Mirandola, in the north of Italy, where I teach English at the local 'Scuola Media' (lower secondary school). my students are 10/14 years old.

http://www.scuolamontanarif.it/info/

In my school technology is very important: there a computer with an Interactive White Board in each classroom.

Each students can work with a chromebook. I love teaching in this tecnological environment, but I have so many things to learn.

In this course I hope to find good suggestions about how to design an effective way of teaching

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Intro Presentation for the Teachers as Designers EVO session, January 2016

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This is a presentation where I briefly introduce myself and the reason why I´ve chosen this session this year. Created with Knovio.

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Hello everyone! I am currently a curriculum writer and a PhD student in Intercultural Education. (I taught for 15 years before this.) I am working on creating an e-course that utilizes CLIL methodologies. The content I am using comes from the book and website, www.bibleandenglish.com. My challenges include applying theory to practice....For example, what progression and activities are most useful in online courses (not hybrid). I'm looking forward to getting to know you all better as well as the design and technologies that would be useful to my students.

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Hi ,

I am a teacher of english in Turkiye.I work in Science and art center for gifted and talented children.I have been teaching for 17 years.I am an ITEC(Innovative technologies for engaging classes) ambassador in my town .I like using technology while teaching.I have a class blog.(sanliurfabilsemenglish.weebly.com)

I am glad to be here.

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Hi everyone, my name is Viviana, I'm an Italian Teacher and I work in lower secondary school (age 11 - 13). I'm a special educational needs teacher and I also teach Italian as foreign language (Italiano L2) to foreign students (young learners, teenagers and adults). I like to integrate tools in my classes and I find them very effective, especially in order to work cooperatively and to include students with special needs. I use Google drive to share documents with my colleagues or with students; for my classes I love using Wiki.

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I'm from the UK but live in the south of Italy. I've worked online for over 10 years now but I also teach at a local university and run blended Business English courses in my town.

My online job for English360 involves helping educators around the world to set up their own online courses and getting familiar with online authoring tools. It's a dream job because I get to hear about cool projects and programs from all over the world.

The main challenges are time related - it's crucial to have enough time to experiment and train all those involved in using the new technology. Unsurprisingly success always lies in taking small steps and keeping the human factor present.

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Hi everyone. Sorry for joining you people a bit late. I am from Pakistan. I am teaching English language for ten years and very much interested in learning technology tools. A bit excited to work with nice people like you all.

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I am from Ukraine.I teach physics in English as a special course at high school.In my work, I prefer to use my own created lessons,including multimedia support,because multimedia is a modern computer information technology ,that combines text,sound,video, graphic, and animation in one computer software and hardware system.Each of the applicable information components has its own expressive means and didactic opportunities at ensuring optimization of the learning process.. I think that a blog is a very useful and effective tool both for teachers and students. For my science class,students conduct their tasks with pictures and graphs and provide additional resources for reading.Blogs are really motivating to students,especially those who might not become participants in classrooms. .

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Hi- I am a K-2 technology teacher at an international school in Dubai. I have been using a few digital tools such as Padlet and Google Apps with my students. I want to learn how to design lessons and content that are age-appropriate for my students. I want them to go beyond the idea of being "consumers" and becoming "creators" of technology.

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I'm from Argentina. I teach English in secondary schools. I would like to learn more so as to improve my teaching and make my classes more interesting.

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Hello everyone!  I am an ESL Facilitator at an elementary school in Coppell, TX.  I have taught overseas for years, in a bilingual class for 4 years, and have been in my current position as a coach and facilitator for the past 3 years. I want to learn how to truly help all of the teachers on campus integrate technology in a meaningful way. I know how to blog and use some technology but would really love to learn more.

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Hello everyone! I am a Polish teacher of English. I have been teaching for over 20 years and I am always eager to learn new things. For about 10 years I have been trying to use technology in my teaching. As I don't have access to compuers or internet in the classrooms where I teach I try to use moodle, blogger and other internet toools or LMSs to enliven my lessons. Currently I am quite busy teaching my regular f2f classes but I'll do my best tocontribute to this community. I am looking forward to learn with you and from you.

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Hello to everyone. I'm teacher of English from Nakhodka, Russia. I teach in Secondary school. I use some of technologies with my students such as glogs, voxopop but not so often as I'd like. I think that the main challenge is that sometimes I don't know how to integrate technologies in classroom lessons.

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Hi everyone! I am so glad to be in this community. I am a Polish teacher of English and a teacher trainer. As to the challenges that I have encountered in my teaching with technology I must say that having mobile devices with the internet access at school / university is not a norm yet and I have to find ways of integrating technology into language teaching outside my class. That sometimes means that my students are unwilling or unable to do the assignments. On the positive side, however, I can see the powerful effect of collaborative work on their motivation to learning and their satisfaction.

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Teaching online and supporting online faculty at the University of New Mexico. Am excited to be here, but am concerned with timing as we are just starting classes! I will give it my best shot, however, as I love this community!

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Teaching French and English initially in Australia, and now in France, I am twice as interested in learning new ways to bring more and more engaging lessons in my classrooms! Can't wait, cheers!

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Hi! I'm an Italian teacher of English, I live in a region called Umbria, in the centre of Italy and I teach in a high vocational school. It is a School 2.0 which has been among the first in Italy to integrate technology in teaching and Learning. This is a video of my school

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Hello from Los Angeles, California USA. I am an elementary school teachers on special assignment working with 1:1 iPads schools as an instructional technology facilitator. It is my first year and I see TaD course an opportunity to grow professionally.

As a classroom teacher technology was a big part of the way we built a digital culture as a classroom. I practiced project based learning and had a very engaged classroom. The challenges I faced we in making these learning activities more academic and meaningful.

I face the same challenge as a teacher advisor in providing experiences that go beyond the tool and technology and are more student centered around educational outcomes. Here is a website I built for my teachers.

Looking forward to connecting with you all.

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Hello everyone, I am an ELT in Saudi Arabia teaching medical students. My students have mostly very basic knowkedge of English language as their main usage is L1. I am trying to use technology in class like whatsapp, twitter etc. But I think here in KSA whatsapp is very popular more than wikis, and other educational platforms.

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Hi everyone!I'm an Tunisian teacher.I live in Kairouan .I teach English as a second languages.Most of my students live in very remote villages though many of them are really motivated and eager to discover about British culture!

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Hi everyone,
I am an italian teacher
I live in Puglia (Lecce, South Italy)
I teach human sciences
I love to walk along the coast and in the countryside
Generally I read, I write, I update myself
I would like to know how to sostein self regulated learning processes through Instructional Design

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Greetings from Brazil (São Paulo)

I currently work with private students and recently started a program through skype, with a few tools. My aim here is to get familiar with more tools in order to spread my work in a way distance will not be an issue.

Grateful to share with you all.

www.clineiacandia.com

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Hello everyone! I'm a teacher of English from Argentina. I love using technoloy in my classes whenever it's possible. I usually use it for projects and also I organize Spanish-English exchanges using a platform. I belive that my students need to develop 21sr century skills: use of tech for real communication.

Thanks for this opportunity!

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Hi all.  I teach in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and I am very happy to share with you in this course. Here I present the link (http://aulavirtualsodia.inviproa.com/) to the virtual classroom where I teach my courses and which fully administered.

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Greetings from Novosibirsk (Russia). I am a university teacher of English, and my interests are connected with teaching academic writing using the technology. I've been teaching my classes with blogs and wikis. I did my MA in English and ICT at the Uni of Leeds. I am interested in different aspects of incorporating different tools in the courses I teach. Among my favourite tools are Quizlet, Padet, Google Docs and Crossword Puzzle makers. I am very much interested in learning from your experience and sharing mine during the EVO sessions

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Hello everyone, I am teaching medical students and have been using blogs and now I am trying to integrate Facebook. Looking forward to learning how to do this effectively.

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Kia Ora from New Zealand!

I use technology with my students in the form of social networking and games. I enjoy the collaborative nature of learning especially through project based learning.To be honest,most of the technology I use in my classroom is experimental and through trial and error which makes lessons seem a bit off the wall sometimes! I am so excited to see what this course brings

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Happy New Year from Beijing!

At the moment I’m working on a teacher development project training Chinese teachers of English in a few primary schools in Beijing.  http://blogs.biss.com.cn/cep/

In my current context I don’t have a chance to use that much technology in the classroom as there is no internet access.  The teachers have been using WeChat in interesting ways with the children though .

I’m also a CELTA trainer and have used a wiki and a few other digital tools on some of the courses.

One module of a recently completed Masters focused heavily on digital literacy skills and how to link the classroom with the real world to make things more relevant for the learners.

Unfortunately, I’m not always working in contexts where I can exploit what I’ve learned but that can change.  It’s the Year of the (cheeky) Monkey after all – a time for risk-taking and disruption (according to some websites I’ve read…)

I’m looking forward to discovering new thing with this course.

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Hello from Canada! I believe that technologies is something we all need in this permanently changing teaching world. My students can't live without social networks and their gadgets, therefore it is especially useful to try and to implement new apps and tools. Also, it is fun, and when you enjoy the way you study, you can remember more.

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Hi! I’m Irina from Russia. I enjoy using technology in my ESP classes. I feel comfortable using communication tools, blogs and wikis (Edmodo, Wikispaces), reference tools (concordancers and language corpora). The challenges I face… I’m not that digital as my students are. I wish I could surprise them one day), that’s why I’m here.

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I teach English online and use a variety of educational technologies to support learning. Like Emma, I like to be selective in choosing tools I use with my learners. The tools I use most often are Skype, Google Docs, Voicethread, Quizlet, Padlet, and WizIQ.

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Hello from Italy..I teach French in a Secondary school and I like using ICT, in particular through eTwinning projects, in order to share experiences and tips to motivate my students

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Hi from Catalonia. I'm Jaume and I live in Argentona, a town 30 km from Barcelona. I work in a secondary school in the same town. I'm really interested in creating and working in online coursebooks. So I look forward to finding new ideas to work with my students.

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Hi everybody!

I live in Mirandola, in the north of Italy, where I teach English at the local 'Scuola Media' (lower secondary school). my students are 10/14 years old.

http://www.scuolamontanarif.it/info/

In my school technology is very important: there a computer with an Interactive White Board in each classroom.

Each students can work with a chromebook. I love teaching in this tecnological environment, but I have so many things to learn.

In this course I hope to find good suggestions about how to design an effective way of teaching

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Hello, I am Natasa from Serbia. I teach adults and young adults. I am addicted to online learning and ICT Sadly, wee don't have a computer in our classroom, but most of my students have smartphones and I sometimes bring my computer to class. I use wikis as material repositories and my students access them from home. My students and I often create Facebook groups or forums to communicate from home.

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Hello everyone! I´m an EFL teacher in Colombia. I'm colombian by the way :). I´ve been teaching in elementary and secondary grades, I really like to integrate digital tools in my classes specially the ones that are useful to work cooperatively, for instance this tool, Padlet is one of my favorites. Additionally, I try to invite my students to use the different tools that google offers because as I mentioned they give the opportunity to students to work together and learn from each other. There are some other strategies that I use like creating routines based on the principles of digital literacy in order to enhance the autonomy and self regulation in students. Hugs!

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Hi, I live about an hour down the coast from Barcelona, Spain. I grew up in Germany & California & have also lived in the UK. I've taught English in private language schools in the UK & Spain since 2006 and have now moved to online teaching. I'm interested in learning how to create online courses and ebooks for ESOL/ESP for lower level adult learners. I'm really looking forward to learning with all of you :D

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Hi, I teach EFL to Italian students in lower secondary school. I love using technology in my daily teaching and I'm always looking for new tools that could help me enhance my teaching and develop my students' skills.

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Hi Everyone! I'm from Hamilton (Canada). I work in two different settings and roles. I work with newcomers to Canada in govt-funded language classes which are f2f. For four years, I taught in an online and/or blended version of the same program. I'm also a program/curriculum developer for a bridging program at McMaster University. Much of the instruction is f2f, but we've tried to flip the classroom where possible. I keep blogs regularly for my students and try to get them using technology that suits our needs and makes life easier. Without Google Drive, life would be very different for me. Looking forward to hearing about new ideas and tools!

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Hello. My name is Narmin and I am based in Azerbaijan. I have been teaching EFL about 5 years. I teach to kids and adults. I enjoy adding creativity to my lessons.

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Hi! My name is Kathryn Allen and I teach Advanced English Language students in North Carolina, USA. I have not had a lot of opportunities to use technology in my classroom up to now but that's changing. I'm interested in learning about how to use different apps and online tools to individualize my students' learning experiences and help them to achieve their goals.

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Hello! I am an EFL teacher in a secondary school, I am Italian and I love using technology with my students. I think they are lucky because they have all the opportunities to improve their skills thanks to the huge amount of tools and sites but we need to provide online orientation to this Net generation students. I'd like to help them to become independent learners and take responsibility for their learning.

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Hello everybody! I am from Georgia. It's nice to work with people interested in self-development. I believe in tailoring the course to suit the needs of modern learners. Technology provides so many opportunities to enhance learning/teaching. Wish all you of you good luck in the new year!

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Hello! I am an English teacher from Bolivia. I use technology in my classroom every day. I teach adults following the Top Notch books. The second edition brings interactive books. My challenge is to get students to use online tools to keep using English outside the classroom. Here you have a video of my presentation.

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Professional Learning Networks for Lifelong Learners

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Technology is something I like to use frequently in my classes, but I try to avoid using it for the sake of using it! I believe that if used without real reason it can detract from the lesson as opposed to enhace it. I'm looking forward to finding new ways to incorporate technology into my classes, as well as hopefully new apps or websites!