Miguel Mendoza

Miguel Mendoza is a full time teacher at Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) and works for the School of Information Science there. In this school, his main concern is helping students learn how to understand texts written in English in the field of Information science. He is currently member of the Community Service and Students-with-disabilities committees. From 2006, he started working for the British Council as an ICT teacher trainer to show teachers from public schools and universities how to integrate ICT into the language classroom. His experience as a teacher trainer has taken him to make presentations on behalf of the British Council in events such as VenTESOL in Venezuela. He is currently the secretary and founder of a young, nascent association called AVEALMEC which promotes the use of ICT in ELT in Venezuela.

Miguel's main research fields are extensive reading, and the use of technology in ELT. 
Miguel has gained online teaching qualifications such as E-moderation skills and Moodle with The Consultants-E. He has also attended International and national events to increase his knowledge on the use of ICT in the language classroom. Miguel is member of NAPP - The National association of Photoshop Photographers.

Publications

• Co-author of the book Let's Read and Practice. A university publication for Information science students at Universidad Central de Venezuela .