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=Speakers= I am trying to list you in order of presentation and environment used so I do not have to skip from one to the other all the time.

[|URL:http://www.nvcc.edu/home/lfranklin] http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMember.htm?id=23735
 * Name:** LAURA FRANKLIN
 * Skype ID:** chloebentley


 * Short bio/interests:** Laura is a Professor of French at Northern Virginia Community College. She is a founding co-Editor of the World Languages collection of the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) and its founding World Languages portal editor. She presents extensively on the use of instructional technology to teach languages. Professor Franklin also enjoys teaching hybrid, online and web-enhanced classes. Recent interests have included the open educational resource movement, internationalization of the curriculum, the role of community colleges in World Languages nationwide, Languages for Special Purposes, Heritage Languages, and the growing need for the expansion of critical language programs.
 * Computer Platform:** Mostly PC,Windows XP
 * Browser and version:** IE and Firefox
 * Connection:** DSL
 * Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote:** In the front row yellin' "Go Bee!!"

Name:** Alan Levine
 * [[image:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1205/780510227_c5cbfb259f_m.jpg link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/780510227/"]]
 * Skype ID:** cogdogblog
 * SL Avatar:** CDBarkley
 * URL:** [|http://cogdogblog.com] [|http://www.nmc.org]
 * Short bio/interests:** Vice President Community & CTO for the New Media Consortium. Interests include web 2.0 (whatever that is), virtual worlds, online community building, social networks, digital media creativity, blogging, sarcasm, chasing cats...
 * Computer Platform:** Mac OSX
 * Browser and version:** FireFox 2.0.0.5
 * Connection:** Broadband DSL (1.5 MBs)
 * Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote:** SL

Computer Platform:Windows XP laptop Browser and version: Connection:
 * Name:** Leigh Blackall
 * Skype ID:** leigh_blackall
 * URL:** [|http://learnonline.wordpress.com]
 * Bio:** I live in [|Andersons Bay in Dunedin New Zealand] with my beautiful partner Sunshine and our dog Mira. My core interest lays in education and [|networked learning]. I work in Educational Development for the [|Otago Polytechnic] and give presentations and workshops on networked learning to many educational organisations in Australia and New Zealand. I maintain the [|Teach and Learn Online Web Log]and facilitate the [|Teach and Learn Online eGroup]. I also design and develop educational resources. Any spare time I find is spent with [|Sunshine and Mira]. Check out [|my photos] of all things life if you like.
 * Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote:** SL



SL : Limitlessness Infinity
 * Name:** Alex Hayes
 * Skype** : mobology
 * URL:** [|blog] [|wiki] [|moblog] [|bookmarks]
 * Short bio/interests** : I live in Orange, NSW, Australia which is three and a half hours drive inland from Sydney, Australia. I work in many differing regional and remote parts of Australia employed by the [|Australian Flexible learning Framework] as a Senior Education Officer with the project [|NSW LearnScope]. I'm a member of the TALO and the [|FLNW] online groups


 * Questions** posed of me:

//What are the key words that define your experience networking with remote communities?//

physical | isolation | cultural | Indigenous | bandwidth | network | localisation | Koorda | gudiya

//How does it help you understand the Future of Learning in a Network World?//

I think we still have a long way to go in our efforts to build capability with Indigenous communities using networked learning environments. To ensure that I truly honor the wishes of the cultural custodians of language and other cultural artefacts I work with I try to avoid atypical stereotypes that marketising culture and monetising contact.


 * Computer Platform**: PC
 * Browser and version**: FireFox 2.0.0.5
 * Connection**: DSL
 * Venue**: Webheads Alado room



MICHAEL COGHLAN Skype ID: mikecogh URL: [|http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/] Short bio/interests: all things Web (open and closed :); voice technologies, virtual classrooms, social networking Computer PC Platform: Windows Browser and version: Firefox 2.0.0.6 Connection: DSL Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote: Alado, webgeads room, webcast (SL, Alado or Webheads room + Worldbridges + webcast)

Name: **VANCE STEVENS** media type="custom" key="133583" Skype ID: **vancestev** http://www.vancestevens.com/vance.htm Computer: //**Yes**// Platform: **PC** Browser and version: Latest IE, Mozilla Firefox, Flock Connection: Wired PC and Wireless laptop Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote:
 * URL:** [|http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com]
 * Short bio/interests**: [|http://webheads.info]
 * All or any of:** (SL, Alado or Webheads room + Worldbridges + webcast)


 * Name:** ELIZABETH HANSON-SMITH
 * Skype ID:** ElizabethHS
 * URL: homepage** [|Computers for Education]; **blog** [|Virtual=Real]; **EVO** [|Electronic Village Online]
 * Short bio/interests:** Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith is professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, where she directed the graduate TESOL Program and the ALCP. She was lead designer for the //[|Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive]//, and pedagogical consultant for the TPR-based //[|Live Action English]// and [|Live Action Spanish] CDs. She distributes her Web-based tutorials, //[|Constructing the Paragraph]//, free online. Author of many articles on CALL pedagogy, she has edited and contributed to //Technology-Enhanced Language Learning Environments// and (with Sarah Rilling) to //Learning Languages through Technology// ([|TESOL 2007]). She is currently consulting on educational technology and teaching online courses, including co-moderation of [|Real English Online], a group supporting teachers using video, and [|Academic Writing] for online, composition teachers. She is past director and currently part of the Coordination Team presenting the TESOL CALL IS Electronic Village Online in Jan-Feb each year. With Joy Egbert, she has completed a second edition of the classic, //CALL Environments: Research, Practice, and Critical Issues//, coming out this summer ([|TESOL 2007]). See her recent presentation for the TESOL Convention: Trends in Digital Media 2007.
 * Computer Platform:** Mac and PC, as needed (I'm ambidextrous and bilingual)
 * Browser and version:** Firefox for both
 * Connection:** fibre optic
 * Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote:** SL + Alado

Name:TERESA ALMEIDA D'ECA
 * Skype ID:** teresadeca
 * URL**: http://64.71.48.37/teresadeca/
 * Short bio/interests:** EFL middle school teacher (1st & 2nd year EFLers) in the greater Lisbon area, Portugal. Co-moderator of the EVO [|Becoming a Webhead] exclusively online teacher development workshop. A Webhead in Action since Jan. 2002. Interests include exploring and playing with Web 2.0 tools to use in the blended learning component of my traditional classes. The latest teacher-student blogs: http://fwe2.motime.com/ and http://call05-06.motime.com/
 * Computer Platform:** WinXP laptop
 * Browser and version:** IE7
 * Connection:** Wireless DSL
 * Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote:** Alado

[|http://explorations.bloxi.jp]
 * Name:** CARLA ARENA
 * Skype ID**: carlaarena
 * URL**: [|http://brazilbridges.net]
 * Short bio/interests**:A Brazilian EFL teacher, explorer of the potential of technology integration into language learning, Carla started to explore the possibilities of tech-applications some years ago and has been trying them out new ever since. Carla is a teacher trainer and site content manager at [|a Binational Center in Brasilia], but she's on a leave right now. She's temporarily living in Key West. She's a blogging fan (or addict!) and enthusiastic Webhead. Carla is presently trying her way into [|Webcasting] to give more voice to other educators. In January 2007, she was one of the moderators of the Electronic Village Session, "[|Blogging4Beginners]".
 * Computer Platform:** PC WXP
 * Browser and version:** Firefox
 * Connection:** Broadband
 * Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote:** Alado + Webheads room + Worldbridges + webcast

Platform: PC WXP Browser and version: Firefox Connection:** Broadband ( Alado or Webheads room + Worldbridges + webcast)
 * Name:** PATRICIA GLOGOWSKI[[image:Patricia_small.JPG align="right"]]
 * Skype ID:** patricia9936
 * URL:** [|The Monitor Hypothesis Blog]
 * Short bio/interests:** ESL Instructor at York University English Language Institute, Toronto, Canada. Blogger, researcher (Second Language Acquisition, CALL, CMC, e-learning, digital literacies, bilingualism/multilingualism), teacher trainer, presenter, volunteer. Interested in creating dynamic, full of fun learning environments and helping students become motivated and life-long language learners. Co-moderator of the 2007 EVO Open Webpublishing session. A Webhead since 2007.
 * Computer
 * Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote:** Alado


 * Name:** DAFNE GONZALEZ
 * Skype ID**: dafnegon939
 * URL**: [|http://dafneusb.motime.com]
 * Short bio/interests:** Full Professor at Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela. Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Education. Coordinator of the TESOL Electronic Village Online. Co-moderator of the EVO Becoming a Webhead session. A Webhead since 2002. Interests include playing with web (2.0) tools for my blended and online courses.
 * Computer Platform**: PC WXP
 * Browser and version**: IE7
 * Connection**: Broadband
 * Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote**: Alado

Name:AIDEN YEH Photo: Skype ID:aidenyeh URL: [|http://dcyeh.com] Short bio/interests: Aiden dela Cruz-Yeh received her MSc in English Language Teaching Management at Surrey University. She teaches at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Taiwan. She is the Asst. List-serv Manager of TESOL’s NNEST caucus. She is also a member of TESOL’s Electronic Village Online Coordinating Team, and Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) for 2007-2008. Computer Platform: PC Browser and version: IE and Firefox Connection: Wireless LAN Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote: Alado (SL, Alado or Webheads room + Worldbridges + webcast)

Name: Photo: Skype ID: URL: Short bio/interests: Computer Platform: Browser and version: Connection: Specify venue you are planning to be on the day of the keynote: (SL, Alado or Webheads room + Worldbridges + webcast)