My CV

  • Education

2007 – Facultad de Humanidades y Artes – Universidad Nacional de Rosario Postítulo de Formación Universitaria en Inglés

2001 – I.E.S. Nº28 “Olga Cossettini”
Profesora en Inglés

1988-1994 – A.R.I.C.A.N.A.
Certificate of Proficiency in English from Michigan University – ELI

1990-1994 Escuela Normal Nº1“Dr. Nicolás Avellaneda”
Bachiller con Orientación Docente

Scholarships

American Studies Institute Training – Teacher Ambassador Program at Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC) in Austin, Texas from January 29 to February 13, 2006. Scholarship for EFL teachers from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay granted by the U.S. Embassy and the Fulbright Commission.
Sites I created: http://www.asi2006.com.ar/ and http://asiargentina.edublogs.org/

E-Teacher Program (September – December 2007)
Teaching Business English online course offered by the University of South Carolina and granted by the US Department of State Office of English Language Programs.

Experience

2009 - UCEL – Universidad del Centro Educativo Latinoamericano
- EFL teacher – Business English IV

2009 – Languageway
- Online Material Designer

2009 – Feedback Language Centre
- In-company teaching

2003 – 2009 – A.R.I.C.A.N.A.
- Course teacher -kids, teenagers and adults
- Computer Lab coordinator (2005-2009)
- TOEFL iBT Prep course teacher (2007-2009)
- Designer and tutor of the TOEFL iBT Blended course
- TOEFL iBT proctor – 2006

2002 – 2005 – C.I.L.E.L. English Language Institute
- Course teacher – kids, teenagers and adults

2004 – Complejo Educativo Belgrano
- EFL teacher – 8th and 9th grades

2003 – I.E.S. Nº28 “Olga Cossettini”
- Teacher of “Use of English” at the pre-entrance course for teacher training college

2003 – Centro Británico de Lengua Inglesa
- Course teacher – kids and adults

Special Interest

2009 – Member of  Social Networking Conference Organizing  Committee

2008 – Tutor virtual y enseñanza de lenguas: roles y desafíos – online course offered by Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. (April-June)

- Member of the Online Communities of Practice Learning with Computers since 2006 and ARCALL since 2008

- TESOL Electronic Village Online
2008 - Co-moderator of “Blogging for Educators”

2007 - Participant of “Becoming a Webhead” and “Blogging for Beginners”
2006 – Participant of “Becoming a Webhead”

- APrIR CALL SIG member in 2006.

Workshops and Presentations – EFL

- 2009 – Twitter Fiction: Social Networking and Microfiction in 140 characters at the III National Conference of Microfiction in Spanish and in English at UCEL

Towards E-learning 2.0 in ELT: Building Communicative Classrooms Online with Jesica Bassani at SBS Conference Blending and Bonding Rosario – June 19th

- 2007/2009 – In service training – Computer Lab Workshops at ARICANA

- 2007 – Web-enhanced Language Learning – A workshop on the integration of the Web in ELT for the 7th BNC Academic Directors Meeting held on October 11th – 12th at A.R.I.C.A.N.A., Rosario, Argentina

Other Workshops and presentations

2009
-  “Las Nuevas Tecnologías en la Educación Superior” Capacitación Pedagógica 2009 at ISHyR (Instituto Superior de Hotelería y Restauranteur) with Griselda Sassola – Rosario – In progress (May – October)

2008
- El blog como un tercer lugar – with Gabriela Sellart at Mate y Blogs-Educación – Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas, Rosario – August 16th

- Capacitación en tecnologías de la información y la comunicación – Module 1- PrevenBlogs II organized by Fundación Zöe, Centro de Negocios ENAPRO, Rosario – August 19th

Articles

2008
- Web-enhanced language Learning (WELL) published with Jesica Bassani in The APrIR Journal – Special Issue 2007-2008

- Cartoon Festival – An International Digital Storytelling Project – published with Mary Hillis and José Antônio Da Silva in TESL-EJ (Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language – Electronic Journal) September 2008, Volume 12, Number 2

2006
- Intercambios culturales desde el aula: colaboración y creatividad en línea in Educ.ar

Workshops, Conferences and Seminars I attended

2009
- Symposium New Dimensions to Language: The University Experience at UCEL Rosario,  March 7th

2008
-TOEFL iBT Webinars
- Quality is More than a Seven-letter Word
- Writing
- TOEFL Test Overview

2007
-Librería Ameghino 90th Anniversary Conference “Language Matters” Rosario, June 1st and 2nd, 2007

- Conference on Applied Technology in Language Teaching held at Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba – Córdoba, May 21st to 23rd , 2007

- Workshop “Shaping the Way We Teach” (invited by the U.S.Embassy) conducted by Jöelle Uzarski – Regional English Language Officer (RELO) at ICANA, Buenos Aires, May 4th, 2007