Kirsten Wächter has been a business English trainer based in Germany since 1998. Having taught in-company courses for many years, today she focuses on teaching business communication, English for special purposes and intercultural courses. She designs her own materials for online and offline teaching and provides teacher training, too.

Mr. Vinayadhar Raju is working as English Language Teacher in Telangana state government secondary school, ZPHS Jangapally in Karimnagar district. He is also acting as a State Resource person and training module writer for in-service teacher training organised by Telangana state government and SCERT. Mr. Vinayadhar has 24 years of experience in teaching English and Handling inservice teacher trainings by integrating technologies in teacher training sessions as well as in classroom teaching. 

Sharon Hartle is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Verona University. She is specialized in English Language teaching (ELT) pedagogy and didactics and works specifically in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). She has worked for some years in the field of e-learning and specializes in multimedia material development for ELT in Blended Learning contexts.

Leo Selivan is a teacher trainer and writer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He trains both pre-service and in-service teachers as well as language editors. For many years he advocated the Lexical Approach through his blog Leoxicon and articles in Modern English Teacher, The Guardian Education and Humanising Language Teaching. This culminated in the publication of Lexical Grammar (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His second book, Activities for Alternative Assessment (DELTA Publishing, 2021), comes out next month. No less importantly, Leo is still a practising EFL teacher with more than 15 years of experience.

As founder of Learning2gether.net, Vance Stevens has hosted over 500 podcasts. His 150 publications regard students using computers to learn languages and teachers using technology by engaging in communities of practice and participatory cultures. He has helped coordinate Electronic Village Online since 2003, and has co-moderated EVO Minecraft MOOC since 2015. He received the 2019 CALL Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award.

#evomc21, #minecraft, #evo2020, #learning2gether

Zeynab Moosavi is an English language teacher and materials designer. Her research interests are in Digital ELT Materials Development and Evaluation and designing learner-centered environments. She has presented papers at international conferences and published articles on ELT in peer-reviewed journals.

#Canva, #adaptability, #creativity

http://www.linkedin.com/in/zeynabmoosavi

Heike Philp is CEO of let's talk online sprl, and she is an immersive education specialist for language teaching and learning. She is co-initiator of EU funded LANCELOT (virtual classroom) and AVALON (virtual world) and the CAMELOT project (machinima for language teachers) and GUINEVERE (games in virtual worlds). She is founder of the Virtual Round Table Conference, DaFWEBKON and owns virtual estate in various virtual worlds.

#virtualworlds #edtechtools #webconferences