Keynote+Sessions

=TCC 2009 Keynote Sessions=

1. Global Collaboration in the Web 2.0 World Sue Waters, Edublogs Community Facilitator, Edublogs ([]) Advanced Skills Lecturer in Aquaculture, Challenger TAFE, Western Australia, suewater@gmail.com.

Sue Waters is well known globally for her role in supporting educators in their use of mobile and web technologies with students. Her inquisitive nature in combination with her ‘trial by practice’ approach has made her a leading innovator in e-learning.

Sue’s practical approach, unique ability to develop resources in creative new ways and harness the collective intelligence of various networks enable her to challenge traditional delivery methodologies as well and use innovative technologies to resolve teaching, learning and assessment barriers. She is also renowned for her facilitating role in global projects.

She provides practical e-learning “how-to” tips through her sites: The Edublogger ([]) Sue’s wikis (http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/) Sue's personal blog ([|http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org]).

2. Interacting to Learn and Learning to Interact Barbara Dieu, EFL Instructor, Global projects collaborator, Brazil, beeonline@gmail.com.

Barbara (Bee) Dieu teaches at the Franco-Brazilian secondary school where she has been preparing students for the French Baccalaureate since 1983. She has been in ELT and education since 1974 (in the classroom) and since 1997 increasingly online, networking, keynoting, planning, organizing and facilitating workshops /collaborative projects worldwide and engaged in professional development for teachers. She has [|published] and [|presented]nationally and internationally on social media, digital literacy and openness in education.

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Bee is an active member of several associations and communities of practice, that includes [|Webheads in Action],[|TESOL], [|Braztesol], [|Merlot], [|Hornby Critical Literacy], [|Práxis], Edublogosfera and [|T.A.L.O.] She is presently [|Braztesol EduTechSIG Coordinator] and has served on the 2008-9 [|NMC Horizon Project Advisory Board]. She blogs at: [|http://beespace.net.]======

3. Teaching Digital Learners: Challenging Our Educational Assumptions Dr. Christine Sorensen, Dean of the College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States

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A tenured professor in Educational Technology, Christine Sorensen, has been the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Hawaii at Mänoa (UHM) since 2007, coming to UHM after serving as dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU) from 2001. Dr. Sorensen has taught in the areas of educational leadership, curriculum, and research and evaluation. She began teaching interactive video and web-based classes more than a decade ago.======

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Her research and publications have focused on distance education, the integration of technology in education, and organizational change, although she also is co-author for one of the leading texts on educational research methods.======

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Prior to joining the NIU faculty in 1996, Dr. Sorensen was a research and evaluation specialist at the Research Institute for Studies in Education at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Sorensen received her undergraduate degree from the University of Houston and her masters and Ph.D. from Iowa State University.======