Hi!
My name is Evelyn Izquierdo. I’m an ESP/EAP teacher at the School of Education of Universidad Central de Venezuela. I hold a master degree in EFL, and I have been interested in online activities after becoming a Webhead in Feb. 2005. Since then, almost all my courses have been blended, and a few of them totally online under the Moodle platform.
I’ve been participating in different EVO sessions since 2005, and it is a must each year if you want to learn a lot, keep updated, share your online work and experiences, enjoy with hands-on activities and have fun with colleagues.
Thanks to the British Council in Venezuela, Consultants-e, Webheads in Action and Learning with Computers, I’ve had the opportunity of learning and being trained on Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, as well as becoming an e-tutor. As a co-founder of Avealmec (the Venezuelan CALL Association), I have also had the great pleasure of training other language teachers in Venezuela, including my own colleagues at the university where I’ve been involved in Distance Education and I am a member of the Distance Education Committee of the Humanities and Education Faculty. Last year, I won a full scholarship to attend the WorldCALL 2008 and represented Venezuela in Japan. I was chosen by a Schorlarship Comittee among 125 participants from many different countries. It was a great experience to share my teaching experiences with the world and learning from my colleagues too.
Last October 2008, I received a training to teach Spanish in Second Life and another training to be a moderator of an EVO session. A month later, I started running the online version of a TKT course sponsored by the British Council in Venezuela. It was another wonderful experience.
In January 2009, I lived a great experience being part of a six-week, hands-on EVO session called Web-based lessons and e-portfolios. I was proud to share the e-moderation along with my colleagues Teadira Pérez and Miguel Mendoza, also Avealmec founder members. We did a great team!
I just ended an excellent postgraduate course called Muvenation where I learned a lot about virtual worlds and how to use them to teach English. It was fascinating!
Besides this, I am a co-moderator of Venelt and ELTnet, both virtual communities for English teachers in Venezuela, and I have been invited by VenTesol’s 2009-2010 Executive Board as an ICT councellor.
During this semester 2009-02, I’ll be facilitating a graduate course on ICT in ELT. A big challenge indeed!
Thanks for visiting my new Website. It is still under construction.
Evelyn
