About Gavin Dudeney

Gavin Dudeney

Gavin has worked in education for the past 24 years, as a teacher, materials developer, IT manager and web/user interface designer. His blend of pedagogical and technical skills has taken him around the world - primarily for the International House World Organisation, but also for the British Council and other entities - helping them to bridge the gap between their training and teaching portfolio and their technical needs.

Until the end of 2003 he held two posts: the first as Head of the New Technologies Department at International House Barcelona and the second as Lead Developer for the online training centre Net Languages. In 2003 he set up The Consultants-E with Nicky Hockly.

He is a past coordinator of the IATEFL Learning Technologies Special Interest Group and also past editor of the SIG newsletter. In 2007 he was elected Honorary Secretary of IATEFL, and in 2011 he became the first Chair of the Electronic Committee (ElCom).

Publications include: "The Internet & The Language Classroom" (CUP 2000, 2007), "How to Teach English with Technology" (Longman 2007, with Nicky Hockly - winner of the International House Ben Warren Award 2008), "Digital Literacies" (Pearson Education 2013, with Nicky Hockly and Dr. Mark Pegrum) and "Going Mobile" (Delta Publishing 2014 (forthcoming), with Nicky Hockly) and he has also written a chapter for a book on Higher and Further Education in Second Life (with Howard Ramsay).

He is also the author of numerous print and online articles (see Publications in the Portfolio section of this site for more).

When not working on all that, he used to look after three islands in Second Life and spend time building and scripting for the education community - the Consultants-E Second Life project EduCation@EduNation was shortlisted for a 2009 British Council ELTON award. TCE have since left Second Life and are concentrating on the exciting, expanding sphere of mobile and handheld learning and training.

You can follow his blog at: http://slife.dudeney.com.

Publications

Materials development

Online Teacher Training Modules (ed.) - Cambridge English Teacher, 2012
Online Teacher Training Modules - Laureate Inc, 2010-2011
Online Training Courses, European Bioinformatics Institute, 2007 to 2008
Virtual Campus - Netlanguages, 1997 to 2003
CD Support Materials - Cambridge University Press, 2002
Online ESP Materials Writing / Programming - The Language Key, 1999

Books

Going Mobile - Delta Publishing, 2014 (forthcoming) with Nicky Hockly
Digital Literacies - Pearson Education, 2013 (with Nicky Hockly & Dr. Mark Pegrum)
Digital Literacies, chapter in Didáctica del Ingles - Classroom Practice - Editorial Graó, 2011
Overcoming the Entry Barriers to Second Life in Higher Education, chapter in Higher Education in Virtual Worlds: Teaching and Learning in Second Life - Emerald Group Publishing, 2009 (with Howard Ramsay)
Learning English as a Foreign Language for Dummies - John Wiley & Sons, 2009 (with Nicky Hockly)
How to Teach English with Technology - Longman, 2007 (with Nicky Hockly)
The Internet & The Language Classroom - Cambridge University Press, 2000 [ second edition published 2007 ]

Articles

A History of CALL - ELTJ (Autumn 2012) (with Nicky Hockly)
No Place in Class for Digital Illiterates - The Guardian Weekly, December 2011
Guest Writer, British Council Teaching English Website, November 2009
View from the Plateau - English Teaching Professional magazine, March 2009
Meet the Twitterati - English Teaching Professional, January 2009 (with Nicky Hockly)
Talk to the Avatar - The Guardian Weekly, October 2006 (with Nicky Hockly)
Hybrid Event Management - Modern English Teacher, June 2006
Interactive, Quite Bored - IATEFL Learning Teachnologies SIG Journal, July 2006
Teaching Online - British Council Teaching English website, June 2005 (with Nicky Hockly)
WebQuests - British Council Teaching English website, April 2005 (with Nicky Hockly)
Ms. Conceptions: Gender and Identity in EFL/ ESL Online Contexts - TESL- EJ Forum, March 2005 (with Nicky Hockly)
Articles in IATEFL Conference Selections - 2002, 2003. Edited by A. Pulverness.
Online skills sharing is breaching staffroom 'wall of silence' - The Guardian Weekly (with Nicky Hockly)
Editor of the IATEFL COMP-SIG Newsletter
The Quest for Practical Web Usage - IATEFL Issues 174, August-September 2003
Regular contributor to IATEFL Teacher Trainers and Educators Special Interest Group Newsletter
Regular contributor to the International House Journal of Education
Regular Contributor to It’s for Teachers magazine
" 'DISC' – or (how) Do Internet Schools Compare?" (with Scott Thornbury), EL Gazette, 08/02
"The Quest for Practical Web Usage", TESL-EJ - Volume 6, No. 4, 02/03
"World Wide Audience – Creative Writing on the Net", IATEFL Poland CALL SIG website
"Space Aliens Ate My Modem!", English Now!, 09/99

Video: Interviews & Presentations

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