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Juanita Pardo-González (BA Hons in Modern Languages, Universidad de losAndes) is an Assistant Professor in the Departamento de Lenguajes y EstudiosSocioculturales at Universidad de los Andes. She has undertaken research studiesat Lancaster University on Corpus Linguistics. She is a Hornby Scholar and has anMA in ELT and Multimedia from Warwick University (2005). Her current researchinterests are related to pronunciation, conscious language learning, and technologyin teaching. She is interested in incorporating language and technology into herteaching. She is designing a blended course for instructors to help them incorporateblended learning into the teaching of other foreign languages in her Department.Colin Paton has been working in the e-learning field since 1998. He started his careeras an EFL teacher and teacher trainer in the early 1990s and spent 15 years workingin Latin America. In 1998 he founded one of the first online language schools (CulturaInglesa Online) and subsequently developed a number of online and blended teachertraining courses for teachers in Latin America. Since returning to the UK in 2005, Colinworked at the Social Care Institute for Excellence designing and leading national fullyonline and blended programmes for nurses and social care professionals. He alsohelped found the first online television channel for social care professionals. SinceApril 2011 he has been Head of eLearning at International House London, responsiblefor all online and blended programmes including the CELTA Online.Nik Peachey is a leading technology consultant writer and trainer. He is alsoassociate trainer for Bell and Visiting Lecturer – Media and Technology – at theUniversity of Westminster. He has been involved in ELT for more than 20 years andover the past ten has specialised in the use of technology for teacher development.He has worked on a wide range of projects for educational organisations includingthe British Council in the UK, Morocco and Venezuela, the Open University, CambridgeESOL, Oxford House TEFL and IATEFL. He publishes a number of free blogs includingNik’s Learning technology blog http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ and has publisheda free e-book Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers. www.scribd.com/doc/19576895/Web-20-Tools-for-Teachers which has been accessed more than 100,000 times.George Pickering is an educational coach, trainer and consultant, who hasdelivered talks and consultancies in over 60 different countries. He is a tutor onthe International Diploma in Language Teaching Management and is the academicdirector of the English UK Diploma in English Language Teaching Management.George has coached senior managers in a range of international and educationalcontexts. He is an inspector of language schools for the British Council in the UK(Accreditation UK). George is a trustee of IATEFL.Edward Russell (MA TESOL and Teacher Education) is now a teacher trainer workingfor the British Council Teacher Development Centre in Singapore. Originally fromEngland, he has been working for ten years in the field of TESOL and has beenoverseas in a variety of places for most of the last eight. He is interested in givingfeedback, skilled helping, psychology and applications of technology in languageeducation. For his MA dissertation he studied his period of transition from teacherto teacher trainer, while in Palestine. He hopes to work as an educator, of sorts,on all continents in his lifetime.Contributors | 251