Nicky Hockly

Nicky has worked in the field of face-to-face and distance education since 1987, as a teacher, teacher trainer and consultant. She holds an MA in TEFL from the Universidad de Granada ( Spain ), a CTEFLA (1987) and a DTEFLA (1991). She has worked as a teacher trainer on Cambridge-ESOL CELTA courses, and has given seminars, in-service workshops and teacher training courses for practising language teachers in the UK, South America, South Africa and in many European countries. She has also been involved in materials development, for both EFL course books and online learning.

Before joining The Consultants-E, she was Academic Counsellor at the Fundacion Universitaria Iberoamericana on a distance Master in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) programme, offered through various Spanish and Latin American universities. This MA programme used the medium of CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) as a basic tool, in which the emphasis is on delivery of content, and also on the use of communication skills for learning and personal/professional development. Her work here involved not only instructional design, but training of university faculty members in the skills necessary for successful online teaching and learning.

Nicky was Co-ordinator of the IATEFL TTEd SIG (Teacher Trainers and Educators Special Interest Group) from 2003- 2005, and a member of the IATEFL TTEd Committee until 2006, as well as a member of the IATEFL Marketing Committee (2005-2006). She was Editor of a magazine aimed at EFL teacher development, called iT's for Teachers , from 2002 - 2004, and was on The ELT Journal Advisory Panel for two years (2004-6).

She has written many articles on education and online learning (see Publications below), and spoken at conferences all over the world. She currently writes a regular column in English Teaching Professional Magazine on uses of ICT for teachers (2009 - present), and has co-written the book "How to Teach English with Technology", Longman 2007, which looks at the application of new technologies to the classroom.

She lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Publications    

Materials development Virtual Campus (Web CT), Australian Institute/Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana 1997-2003 http://www.redprofesorado.org Online module 'Language Systems and Language Skills' for University of East London online MA in TESOL programme 2003 Editor Framework Workbook 3 Richmond Publishing 2003-4 Video scripts, worksheets and Teacher's Notes for three secondary school EFL coursebooks, Richmond Publishing, 1999-2000: Your Turn Next, Your Choice Next, Different. http://www.richmondelt.com/spain/more4.html Netlanguages, 1997-1998http://www.netlanguages.com   Books Teaching Online: Tools and Techniques. Delta Publishing. (forthcoming April 2010) (with Lindsay Clandfield ) Learning English as a Foreign Language for Dummies - John Wiley & Sons, 2009 (with Gavin Dudeney) How to Teach English with Technology - Longman, 2007 (with Gavin Dudeney )   Articles Natecla News – regular column 2007 – present (Hockly) NATECLA, The National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults is the professional organisation for ESOL practitioners. www.natecla.org.uk Meet the Twitterati - English Teaching Professional, January 2009 (Dudeney & Hockly) Teachers and Technology - Modern English Teacher, April 2009 Community Service: Online CPD for Teachers - Modern English Teacher, October 2009 Things You Always Wanted to Know about ICT, but Were Too Afraid to Ask -- regular column in English Teaching Professional, from January 2009 Teaching Online - British Council Teaching English website, June 2005 (with Gavin Dudeney) http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/methodology/etutor.shtml WebQuests - British Council Teaching English website, April 2005 (with Gavin Dudeney) http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/webquest.shtml Ms. Conceptions: Gender and Identity in EFL/ ESL Online Contexts - TESL- EJ Forum, March 2005 (with Gavin Dudeney) http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej32/f1.html Working Together in Virtual Darkness - The Guardian Weekly http://education.guardian.co.uk/tefl/story/0,5500,1246608,00.html Online skills sharing is breaching staffroom 'wall of silence' - The Guardian Weekly (with Gavin Dudeney) http://education.guardian.co.uk/tefl/story/0,5500,1048661,00.html Live and Let Lurk - IATEFL Issues 173, June-July 2003 http://www.iatefl.org Editor of It’s for Teachers magazine http://www.its-teachers.com/ Regular contributor to IATEFL Teacher Trainers and Educators Special Interest Group Newsletter http://www.ihes.com/ttsig/backarticles.asp “Learning the hard way: strategy use and (online) distance education”, Learner Independence SIG Newsletter, Issue 30: 2001. http://www.geocities.com/jo_mynard/ “Apprenticeship and Cognitive Modeling in Pre-service Teacher Education”, English Language Teaching Journal (ELTJ), April 2000 http://www3.oup.co.uk/eltj/hdb/Volume_54/Issue_02/540118.sgm.abs.html “Multiple Intelligences in the EFL classroom”, GRETA XVI Jornadas Pedagógicas Actas 2000 http://www.infogreta.org/jornadas/XVIJor_Programa.htm Articles in IATEFL Conference Selections 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003. Edited by A. Pulverness. http://www.iatefl.org Nicky also blogs at:: eModeration Station