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Nellie wroteon October 15, 2007 at 8:33am
My name is Nellie Deutsch. I am passionate about learning and sharing information. I am an educator and doctoral student of education specializing in curriculum and instruction. I am in my second year at the University of Phoenix online. Although my research interests vary, my research topic is blended learning. I believe that connecting online to social and professional communities such as Facebook and learning environments such as Moodle will make the world a better place.

In addition, I am a long distance runner. I hope to do my first marathon once I complete my degree. One of my daughters trains me via a software program. She is a triathlete and an awesome coach in Victoria, BC.

One of my most distinguishing characteristics is determination.
Post #2
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Katherine wroteon October 15, 2007 at 3:23pm
My name is Kathy, I analyze, design, and develop adult software training. We offer our classes via traditional classrooms, online synchronous courses, recorded webcasts, and web-based tutorials. I also have a Masters degree in adult education via distance learning.
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Andrew wroteon October 15, 2007 at 8:59pm
My name is Andrew Best. I'm a Canadian but I've been living in Shanghai for the past several years. I'm interested in promoting high quality free e-learning which is fun and relevant.
My brother and I make a popular free ESL podcast with an accompanying free website for them to read along. It's for intermediate to advanced learners of English. Many teachers incorporate our lessons into their lesson plans.
http://www.china232.com
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Bengt wroteon October 17, 2007 at 10:38am
I have been involved with e-learning for several years now and have contacts all over the world. The most interesting thing that i hope for is that it will spread knowledge to people that doesnt have library or books. OLPC i think might be one project htat can raise knowledge and be a catalysator for such countries.
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Nalin wroteon October 19, 2007 at 3:12am
I am Nalin Abeysekera,Sri Lankan.Lectuer at Open University Sri Lanka.I like to learn more on learning!!! I am a lecturer for international marketing and business management.Playing cricket and reading books are my hobbies....
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Ibrahim wroteon October 20, 2007 at 3:43am
My name is Ibrahim. I am from Tajikistan. I work as an Education Coordinator for Relief International Schools Online Tajikistan. I am very interested to work with teachers and students to integrate technology into curriculum by using different e-tools that the amazing Internet provides for educators worldwide.
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Ana wroteon October 20, 2007 at 4:58am
Hello everyone,
My name is Ana Maria Menezes and I was introduced to internet tools by a yahoo community "Learning with Computers". We are a group of EFL teachers who have been trying out different tools with different group of ours. I am a teacher and coordinator at a Language Institute in Brazil and have been trying to be a multiplier at the school where I work as well as in the communities I belong to. I´m a very enthusiastic blogger and have created several class blogs. Hope to learn a lot from you and also share some of what I´ve doing .
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Steve wroteon October 20, 2007 at 11:18am
This is Steve Guadarrama. I teach fifth grade in San Diego, Ca. I love teaching and helping learners become great thinkers. I have been into software for many years. Last March, I began using Moodle to create an online learning experience for my students. I have found that the site, combined with meaningful content and higher-order thinking skills help students excel. I believe that knowledge is power and that knowledge should be available to all. I love learning about new ways to help students think and learn. Please view my class Moodle site. at http://moodle.sandi.net/course/view.php?id=1198
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Lisa wroteon October 21, 2007 at 1:20am
Hi my name is Lisa Valentine. I'm an elearning adviser in the North West of England based at Lancaster University. My background is teaching young people with special needs but I'm also interested in using elearning in developing countries. My brother runs a small charity in Tanzania called Tukae (see Tukae friends facebook group) and they provide volunteers to work in the primary school there. So I probably cannot add a lot to this discussion but will certainly learn from it.
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Dixie wroteon October 23, 2007 at 2:44pm
Hi, I'm Dixie and I teach English at a University in Mexico.
I'm a doctoral candidate and my research is on using ICTs (including Facebook) for teaching languages.
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Neil wroteon October 23, 2007 at 11:32pm
Hello, I'm Neil Pakenham-Walsh, from Oxford UK. I'm interested in e-learning as a means to meet the information and learning needs of frontline healthcare providers in developing countries. Here is my bio:

Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of the Global Healthcare Information Network, a non-profit organization that supports the goal of ‘Healthcare Information For All by 2015’ (www.hifa2015.org). He has a special interest in the availability and use of relevant, reliable healthcare information in developing countries, especially at primary and district levels. He qualified as a doctor in 1983 and worked for 6 years in NHS hospital medicine, including 2 years in paediatrics. In 1990 he moved into medical publishing and worked with the World Health Organization, Medicine Digest, and the Wellcome Trust CD-ROM series 'Topics in International Health'. From 1996 to 2004 he developed and managed the INASP-Health programme (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) and the eForum, HIF-net (Health Information Forum). He has worked as a medical officer in rural Ecuador and Peru, and in 2005 he worked alongside rural healthcare providers in South India to assess local priorities in access and use of health information. neil.pakenham-walsh AT ghi-net.org
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Jennifer wroteon October 25, 2007 at 5:39pm
My name is Jennifer Walford, I am currently a library/media coordinator. I believe e-tools provide another tool for teachers to connect with students and meet the learning styles of students.

Jennifer Walford
Teach by Example Technology Education Blog
http://jwalford.blogspot.com
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Doug wroteon October 25, 2007 at 8:06pm
I'm a Community Animator with the South Island Learning Community, based in Victoria, BC.

I hold a Master of Education degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, which I completed entirely online.

I'm particularly interested in "free" and open-source software solutions and for the past couple of years I've been involved as a webcaster at http://edtechtalk.com
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Brenda wroteon November 2, 2007 at 11:28am
Hi I am a computer teacher, currently working in an elementary school ie. working with digital natives. :-) love that expression. I also tutor teachers online. They are doing an advanced certificate in integrating ICT into the curriculum. I have also done the Intel Teach course and I am passionate about education.
I work in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. My school does not have an internet connection in the computer lab. This is often a source of frustration for me but I keep hoping we'll get there. I always do my best to find creative ways of making learning exciting by integrating the classroom programme with computer lessons. I look forward to being part of this group in the next few days.
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David wroteon November 3, 2007 at 2:39am
My name is David. I am originally Canadian but have been living in Israel most of my adult life. I have been involved in e-learning since 1991, when I first discovered the Internet.
Based on my own experience, I feel that the most successful e-learning programs involve cooperative projects, including participation from schools from different parts of the world, both from first world and third world countries. The learning should not only include virtual correspondence, but also face to face meetings designed towards a specific communal goal. The program should also include an infrastructure which will empower the participating schools with the required pedagogical and technological tools.
I have worked with such programs throughout the years, the most successful being "The 21st Century Schoolhouse", in which schools worked together on specific environmental issues and met for a global summit once every two years where they drew up a document of answers and responsibilities for taking back to their individual governments, in the attempt to force real action.
I have also been running "The English Teachers Network in Israel" for the past eleven years - a network for and by teachers - http://www.etni.org
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Michael wroteon November 10, 2007 at 8:27am
My name is Michael McVey. I am an assistant professor in educational media and technology at Eastern Michigan University. I first became interested in electronic learning and distance learning when students in my class for learning disabled adolescents began to show marked improvements in their writing skills and we began to correspond with students around the world through kidlink.org. Since 1993 I have actively created online learning communities of practice for teachers around the world. I'm looking forward to engaging with other scholars and those with a sincere passion for distance learning and lifelong learning through technology.
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Kenneth wroteon November 10, 2007 at 9:11pm
My name is Kenneth Wyrick, I was born, raised and currently live in Los Angeles. My interest in e-learning is rooted in a desire to help existing people based educational networks, mainly k-12 in California and most recently in Sierra Leone West Africa.

Since 1990 I've represented The Lazarus Foundation, various (approx. 15+) Santa Barbara agencies, CTCNet.org and The LINCT.org Coalition, to leverage digital technology and use the Internet as a resource to bridge the digital divide. With the e-learning my objective is in working toward achieving, what I call, A State of No Body being digitally Left Behind. Click on my name at: http://litli.net to see my Vitae, as needed.

My working requirements include identifying the requirements of a start-up or existing netowrk, Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) that have LiveCD distributions. I use LiveCDs in the process of refurbishing computers, that others have designated as obsolete. The benefits are two-fold. Refurbishing them keeps them out of land fills and they become a source of access for those who need them.

My e-learning software of choice is http://dotlrn.org. I also use http://moodle.org, often for session like the one I'm doing this weekend in http://knowplace.ca . I've come to know and use the SCORM, which is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning that both, dotLRN and Moodle, use.

The RELOAD Project produces a collection of FREE, java based, Reuseable eLearning Object Authoring & Deliver Tools: http://www.reload.ac.uk/tools.html that I use to create, edit and package SCORM content.

LAMS is another, browser based tool, for designing, managing and delivering on-line collaborative learning activities. So, while I create e-learning sessions in both dotLRN and Moodle the RELAOD and LAMS tools give me the ability to package sessions one time, in a local editor, and use them in both the dotLRN and Moodle.

So, as of yesterday I discovered that one of my two perferred LiveCD desktops (Mepis.org and Edubuntu.org) Edubuntu, in the Gutsy, 7.10 release includes both the dotLRN and Moodle as installable packages in script form.

That's it for today.....
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Hazman wroteon November 11, 2007 at 4:29am
Hi guys !!<br /><br />I am a boy who just lost my way in an academic library after graduation from University of Wollongong, Australia. I have returned home back to Singapore, supposed to find a good job, but I end up in a library science school at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Plus, I am working in the academic library too. <br /><br />To be frank, I don't really know what I am doing in the academic library. But just, as usually, I am the plain old Hazzie, who love to play around with web development. They told me I have done good stuffs, like using my blog to delivered some contents that library science are always wanting to do. I do this just as a hobby, but now it become a job. <br /><br />Most of my time, I spend my times on Hazman Aziz.com (<a href="http://hazmanaziz.com)," target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://hazmanaziz.com,</a> a portal that I have been building since 1997. One good point of these portal, I love to share information. I will share and present information , by all means of presentation layer. Check it out ...<br /><br />Anyway, it is good that e-learning is presenting. One thing, I would like to say if I were younger, like 10 year ago when I am sitting for my GCE O level. <br /><br />How I wish my history teacher using this medium to explain us all the factual point. <br /><br />That is basically me. <br /><br />Simply old Hazzie.<br /><br />Hazman Aziz.
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Pran wroteon November 12, 2007 at 10:16am
Hi!

My name is Pran Kurup and I run an eLearning company. http://www.vitalect.com

I started my career in the semiconductor industry and over time drifted into eLearning. I love to read and write, and speak. So eLearning (and business) was a natural fit! :-). Along the way I also published a couple of books.

Besides work I babble on the net on a host of topics on my personal blog http://www.pakorakorner.com

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Carolina wroteon November 12, 2007 at 8:58pm
Hola everybody!
I'm Carolina Suarez Vega and I'm an e-learning developer in a Mexican university. Although I'm from Colombia, I moved to Mexico a year ago to work on Distance Education (DE) programs, because somehow I see more opportunities in this area here.
Coming from a developing country, I've noticed that there is still a lot of obstacles to break and goals to achieve in order to find commited people who really believe and work in this area.
I think most of this discussions about DE have to do with NOT having a leader to follow.

Anyway...I guess I will write more about myself later.
So far It's been really good to see all this people worldwide working on this areas of education.
Carolina :)
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Inge wroteon November 22, 2007 at 7:34am
dear all

My name is Ignatia/Inge de Waard. I work as an eLearning coordinator at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium.
The ITM has a lot of international students from developing and development countries, hence my interest in this group.

Nice to meet you all!
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Karen wroteon November 26, 2007 at 10:16am
Hi,
I am Karen Ettinger, I live in Israel and have been developing educational content on the web for almost 10 years.
I worked untill recently at the Snunit Organization that was founded by the Hebrew University right at the beginning of the Israeli internet.
The Snunit site provides content for 70 % of the Israeli elementry school children and the general public too.
While I was working in Snunit I developed hundreds of websites and web-based edutainment activities.
Lately I have begun working for another education organization here in Israel and we are working on a new web site.
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Didem wroteon November 27, 2007 at 11:15am
Hi everyone,
My name is Didem Tufan. I am from one of the developing countries: Turkey. I am a graduate of Computer Education and Instructional Technology Department from METU (Middle East Technical University). Nowadays, I am continuing my degree on Curriculum and Instruction in the field of education.

After working as a computer teacher in a private school with K-12 students, I gave up teaching. Now, I am working as an instructional technologist for an informatics company. I am designing SCORM compliant e-learning content for adult learners. (for this project, I am designing for soldiers).We have an LMS, that we provide services for several universities.

E-learning is a rough job requiring educational, social and technical traits. It becomes a harder job if you are in a developing country like Turkey. I really wonder what other people in other countries do in e-learning business. What kind of difficulties do they face with? I have more questions in my mind. Hope to discuss together.
I like blogging http://sidikasaka.blogspot.com
I love reading, watching series and singing folk music.
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Mark wroteon November 27, 2007 at 10:05pm
Hi!
I'm a student in the TESOL (teaching english to speakers of other languages) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) located in Monterey, CA. Sorry, that was A LOT of long acronyms. :)

My interest in e-learning has mostly come from a class I am currently taking, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Pedagogy. In the class, we have learned about a number of online technology tools (e.g. facebook, zoho notebook) that can be applied in the classroom. Furthermore, we have discussed a lot of the theory surrounding CALL and how it relates to language teaching, such as multiliteracies. Also, the final project for the class is to design an actual resource for teachers to use in the classroom.

Look forward to sharing ideas with you all!
-Mark
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Alanagh wroteon November 28, 2007 at 10:12pm
I am Dorette Steenkamp when I am not flying into walls or bumping into people at virtual conferences in Second Life, as Alanagh Recreant. This is also my avatar name and alter-ego while I explore the value of synthetic 3D platforms for development in Africa.

We have a community development company, Uthango Social Investments (http://uthango.org) based in South Africa. Our social networking project is called Virtual Africa (http://slafrica.wordpress.com) for now. More... my passion is poverty eradication in a sustainable way and I have seen that skills development is an essential component.

E-learning interests me as my background include being a lecturer at a training college for teachers. IT should be far more incorporated in the methodologies used to reach African educators, and give them a platform to share expertise with the world.
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Virginia wroteon November 29, 2007 at 8:43am
I am an instructor in the school of Education and Communication Dept. at the University at Albany in Northeastern New York state, USA. I teach an introduction to distance learning course to students studying for a Master/Certificate in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology. I have taught both traditional distance learning courses (correspondence courses), been the instructional designer and/or teacher for online courses in Business, Foreign Language, and Education, and incorporated distance learning into more traditional courses for Business, ESL, Communication, and Education students.

I find my biggest challenge is to a) keep up with the new technologies (such as facebook and other social networking software), b) keep up with the changing needs of my students, and c) finish up my dissertation.
Post #30
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Julia wroteon November 30, 2007 at 3:29am
Hello there,

I'm Julia Blagbrough- a learning designer for a 'serious games'/ e-learning comapny called DESQ based in Sheffield UK.
The beauty of technology- doesn't it feel great to be connected in a mutual quest?

My passions:
- Using technology to CLOSE the rich/ poor divide
- Improving/ increasing educational opportunities world wide
- Inspiring educational experiences
- Connecting nations via technology and education- sharing
experiences
- Innovative use of pedagogy, technology
- Understanding of Cognitive psychology of learning
- Interactive narratives
- Creative ideas development

My background:
- 8 years in e-learning
- Previously worked as designer, interface designer, and
programer within e-leanring
- worked as a consulltant for educational publishers

I have developed several ideas for Learning experiences which connect nations wordlwide on an equal level - (amongst a pot of other ideas bubbling away)

Great to be here- looking forward to working together to take some positive action. We all know we are in a window of change. The time is now.