Apr 26 2010
What did they do next?
This section of the blog has been created to show links to our current and former students’ activities. Over time, we will build up the links. Former students should either post their latest news (in the Blogroll) or drop us line so that we can add you to this listing.
BARGE, Martin (MEd EdTech & ELT — distance)
Since finishing, Martin has become Technical Director of the Language Learning Centre at Queen Mary, University of London. You can take a peek at some of the materials he produced for teaching English to African Air Traffic Controllers, which he was doing at one point during his time with us. These are linked from his webpage as is a blog he used as a diary during one of his course units on teaching and learning online: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/mibarge/
Martin is also now busy writing a Business English Teachers’ book for MacMillan and is involved in a project looking at teaching in multimedia labs, supported by an award from the Centre for Excellence in Multimedia Language Learning:
http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/lanlit/cetl/news/2007/winner_mmlt_award07-08.html
FOORD, Duncan
In 1998, Duncan Foord founded a teacher training company in Barcelona with a colleague. The business has grown since then and now has schools in Cadiz and Prague. This is the school’s website: Oxford Tefl
See here for Duncan Foord’s latest book on teacher development.
HARLOW, Amanda
This web page shows the work that Amanda is doing in Japan. She has set up a language school there which specifically caters for learners over the age of 50.
HEMPEKIDOU, Keti (MEd. Ed Tech & TESOL, 2002)
Since graduation in 2002, Keti has become a Lecturer in English at the University of the Aegean located in Rhodes. She has also been involved in teacher training with newly-appointed state teachers of English, French, German and Italian. Her contribution to these annual training activities have been in: i) Educational Technologies and Foreign Language Teaching; ii) Intercultural Communication in State school Classrooms; and iii) Evaluation of Teaching Materials. And since 2004, she has been a member of the General Register of Trainers which is supervised by the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (E.K.D.D.A.). She has also published articles in the ELT newletter for Greece as follows:
· “Evaluating Educational Sites on the Internet”, ELT News, August , 2007
· “Multimedia in English Language Teaching”, ELT News, July, 2007
· “Intercultural Communication in ELT classroom”, ELT News, June, 2007
· “Intercultural Communication – a case study”, ELT News, May, 2007
Her conference papers include:
· “The Use of Multimedia in Tertiary Education in Greece: Teaching English for Engineering”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Informational and Educational Technologies in Education, Athens, 2004
KJARTASSON, Rafn (MEd ELT summer / distance mode, late 1990s)
Although Rafn is now happily retired, before he did so, he was involved in a number of intercultural projects (in part stimulated by his experience of the intercultural course unit on his Masters programme at Manchester).
For example, he was involved – through the University of Akureyri in Iceland – in the Cross-cultural Curriculum for European Regions and their students (CERes), a project which “addresses this need by initiating a new internationalised business language curriculum for young people at universities in the target countries of Bulgaria, England, Iceland, Poland, and Sweden …. CEReS aims at introducing new teaching approaches and teaching methods in the field of cross-cultural training and education for trade and mobility“.
The outcome of the project was an intercultural curriculum for business departments at universities, featuring a comprehensive selection of film clips integrated into written study modules. The clips were obtained by means of student interviews with business people in the participating countries; Bulgaria, England, Iceland, Poland and Sweden.
http://cerespro.unak.is//?mod=sidur&mod2=view&id=31
LEE, Joy
Joy Lee has been awarded an Inspired Teacher Scholarship for Visual Learning. Joy teaches in Singapore and did her Masters with us by distance learning. For her dissertation, she researched the impact of using Inspiration software to develop visual learning strategies to help her students improve narrative writing. She has now been awarded one of Inspiration’s 2008 scholarships for her project. Congratulations, Joy.
LUSSI BELL, Maggie (MEd ELT part-time distance)
After finishing her Master’s in 1996, Maggi continued to teach at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and at the University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Wädenswil, Switzerland. She left the ETH in 2002 to concentrate on the ZHAW (www.zhaw.ch), which turned into the full time job she had been looking for. She now heads the team of EFL teachers and was appointed as a Professor in 2008. She has also been involved in teacher development and ran ‘Educational Links’ from 1995 to 2001 together with a fellow MEd student, Keith Sprague, to enable teachers in Switzerland to do the Manchester MEd TESOL on a distance basis. As well as teacher development, one of Maggi’s main areas of interest is testing (the topic of her Master’s dissertation was on the testing of speaking) and she was coordinator of the English Teacher’s Association of Switzerland’s SIG for Examinations, Testing and Assessment from 2006 to 2010. She has been enrolled on the University of Bristol’s EdD programme since 2005 and is currently investigating the use of academic oral presentations in an assessment context for her dissertation.
NTAVALIAGKOU, Maria (MA TESOL, 2007)
In 2008, Maria successfully obtained a PhD place in the School of Education at the University of Leeds. Her experience of part-time, distance study has resulted in a topic of : “Factors affecting the academic experience of female part-time students in pursuit of a distance learning doctorate”.
PATHARE, Emma
Emma graduated from our MEd Educational Technology and ELT course and won the international category in the 2008 British Council ELTons, awarded for innovation in ELT. Emma gained this recognition for her web-based vocabulary course, which was the focus of development and research for her Masters dissertation. See:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-innovation-awards-2008-winners.htm
and
http://education.guardian.co.uk/tefl/courses/story/0,,2263401,00.html
ZORKO, Vida (MA EdTech & TESOL, 2007, distance learning)
Since graduating, Vida has not only become a valued member of the internationally team for the Computer-mediated intercultural Communication (which Diane, Richard and Susan run with Manchester BA students), she’s also been a very active conference paper-giver and online article contributor (see her works in the Student Contributions to Scholarship) and webmaster / editor also for the The Slovene Association of LSP Teachers’s international (see the BlogRoll link for their Languages for Specific Purposes weblog). She is also the Editor for the Association’s international journal (Scripta Manent) and publication series (Inter Alia).