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 * Teresa Almeida d'Eça

Teresa Almeida d'Eça** has been an EFL teacher for over 30 years and has taught at several levels (5th grade to university). She graduated in English and German and has a Master's in American Studies. She lives and teaches in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal. For the past four years she's been teaching middle school, 5th and 6th grades (1st & 2nd year EFLers) and has introduced her students to blogging. Her current teacher-student blogs are [|Have Fun with English! 2] and [|CALL Lessons 2005-2007]. She joined the [|Webheads in Action] in Jan. 2002 for an online teacher development workshop and since then she's been actively involved in the cyberworld of education. She has co-moderated the [|Becoming a Webhead] online teacher development workshop with Dafne González since 2004 and both have also co-taught "PP 104: Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar Online", a credited online course that is part of TESOL's "Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program". She presents regularly at national and international conferences, and has work published in national and international journals. She has two books published, //NetAprendizagem: A Internet na Educação// (1998) and //O Email na Sala de Aula// (2002). If you'd like to know more about her and her work, please visit her [|Web site]

Dafne González
**Dr. Dafne González** has been an EFL/ESP teacher for more than 30 years. She graduated in Language Teaching, has a Master's degree in Applied Linguistcs, and a Ph.D. in Education. She is a Full Professor at [|Universidad Simon Bolivar], Caracas, Venezuela where she coordinates the [|Graduate][| Studies in Education Programs] and is the Head of the [|Specialization in Informatics and Education]. Besides teaching technology-related courses at the graduate level, she also teaches [|English for Architecture and Urban Planning] courses. A [|webhead] since 2002, she is currently the coordinator of the [|TESOL Electronic Village Online] and co-moderator, with Teresa Almeida d´Eça of the [|Becoming a Webhead] (BaW) online workshop. She has published in different national and international journals and regularly presents at national and international conferences. She has been a member of VenTESOL and TESOL for more than 16 years.