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Dafne Gonzalez
(Daf) has been an EFL, EST and ESP professor for more than 30 years
in Caracas, Venezuela. She has also taught methodology and research
methods courses in a MSc in an Applied Linguistics Program at Universidad
Simon Bolivar, where she is a Full Professor.
She has been involved in online teaching since 2002. Dafne has
published articles in different international journals, and has
presented at TESOL conferences, and at online and f2f e-learning
events. She is an active member of Webheads in Action, and one of
her research interests is the use of synchronous web tools for language
learning and teacher development, and she has created a taxonomy
of educational chats. She is also a member of Tapped In and the
Learning Times community. Dafne Gonzalez earned a B.A. in Modern
Languages, a MSc in Applied Linguistics, and holds a Ph.D in Education
from Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
She has served on TESOL's Technology Advisory Commitee and Electronic
Village Online Cordination team, and on the Editorial board of the
ESL MiniConference Online Magazine, and co-moderates with Teresa
one of the TESOL Principles and Practices Certificate Program courses:
"Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar Online".
This is one her blogs: http://www.livejournal.com/users/dygonza/
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Teresa Almeida d'Eça
(Tere) has been an EFL teacher for 30 years and has taught at all
levels. She lives and teaches in a small town in the suburbs of Lisbon,
Portugal. This year she's teaching 5th grade (1st year EFLers). She
loves teaching and finds it an even more challenging task since the
arrival of ICTs. She also loves computers, the Internet and interacting
with friends and colleagues through chat and email. She has carried
out three email cultural exchanges and has run a teacher-student blog
titled "Have Fun with English!". She also enjoys creating
interactive custom-made Web-based activities for her students.
She did her first online course in October 2001 with Michael Krauss.
In January 2002, she joined the Webheads in Action for the EVOnline
training session, and since then she has been actively involved in
the cyberworld of education! She has published two books, one on the
use of the Internet in education and the other on the use of email
in the classroom. She presents regularly at conferences at home and
abroad. She's the Past Chair of the TESOL Technology Advisory Committee
(TAC).
If you'd like to know more about her and her work, please visit
her Web page at http://64.71.48.37/teresadeca/
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