The IATEFL Computer SIG
Virtual Pre-Conference Event
Bios
Paul Brett
Pete MacKichan
Gary Motteram
Lesley Shield
Diane Slaouti
Geoff Taylor
Dede Teeler
truna aka j. turner
Eric Baber
Tutor Groups
Paul's Group
Gary Motteram |
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I work at the Centre for English Language Studies in
Education (www.man.ac.uk/CELSE/) at Manchester
University where I am a teacher trainer.
My main interests are in how technology can be most usefully exploited in language
learning and in language teacher education. I have been doing this for about twelve
years now and am continually excited by the way that things have developed in the last few
years with the rapid growth of the internet and particularly the World Wide Web. I
run an MEd in Educational Technology and ELT which operates fully distance and this MEd
makes an increasing use of technology in its delivery.
I have also been involved in IATEFL for quite some time. I am currently the Special
Interest Group Representative (but not for much longer), am a member of the computer SIG
and edit the newsletter, and I also edit the core pages of the IATEFL Web site. I
have been involved in setting
up and running a number of events for the Computer SIG and we ran the last PCE physically
at Manchester. This is the SIGs first venture into virtual courses.
A couple of Web sites where there are short articles I have written about things to do
with technology and language learning:
This is an overview talk about CALL that I gave in China: http://www.scut.edu.cn/cwis/scut/setup/foreign/gary.htm
and here are some views about the Web and language learning: http://www.insa-lyon.fr/Departements/CDRL/learner.html