Dafne Gonzalez        

1. Full Professor

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Caracas, Venezuela

• Ph.d in Educación
• MA in Applied Linguistics
• BA in Modern Languages

Past Coordinator of the Graduate Programs in Education

Past Head of the Specialization in Informatics in Education

Past lead coordinator of the TESOL Electronic Village Online

Teacher of:

Technology-related courses (graduate level)

English for Architecture and Urban Planning (undergraduate)

2. Spanish Program coordinator at Languagelab.com in Second Life - avatar: Daf Smirnov (past)

3. Member of the Coordination team of the TESOL Electronic Village Online,

4. Moderator of the yearly session ( 2004-2013): Becoming a Webhead of the TESOL Electronic Village Online (past)

5. Moderator of the course "Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar Online" in the TESOL Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program

Research areas: e-learning, materials design, e-course design, use of web tools in education

Coordinator of the TESOL Electronic Village Online

Moderator of online teacher training courses worldwide

Presents in national and international events onsite or online.

Articles and chapter published nationally and internationally

Associations membership: TESOL, VenTESOL, AVEALMEC, IATEFL

Member of different virtual Communities of Practice: Webheads in Action, Learning Times, Tapped In, Worldbridges, among others.

Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google +, among others