Life Long Learning

I am Valentina Dodge. I live in Salerno, Italy.
I am a teacher, teacher trainer and online tutor.

I have a wonderful son (Francis, 19) and daughter (Sophie, 14) who inspire and delight me daily!

I train teachers from all over the world to pick up a range of useful technology-related skills which are immediately applicable in their classrooms (The Consultants-E - Cert ICT in the classroom – 20 week course- fully validated  Trinity College London certificate).

I work part-time at the University of Naples. I co-manage a small business consultancy 24hours.it specializing in tailor-made Business courses in the Salerno area (southern Italy) and help develop educational material e.g for eTwinning projects.
I have worked in the field of education for the past twenty years and as a consultant for local and European projects for the past five. I am actively involved in developing material for online delivery e.g http://english360.com/

Find out more about us from our one of our first blogs! Cringe

I give regular seminars, hold in-service workshops and teacher training courses on project work, Task-Based Learning and in recent years have helped teachers acquire the necessary pedagogical and technical skills ICT in the ELT classroom and I collaborate closely with the Trinity College Centres in Italy.

I’m doing a Masters at Roma Tre Università in Multimedialità per l’E-learning

I hold a University of Westminster BA, an International House RSA Cert (1986), Trinity College LTCL Diploma in TESOL (1993) and University of Sheffield Hallam TESOL PGDip (1994). I have also gained online teaching qualifications such as E-moderation skills and the Trinity quality- assured ‘ICT in the Classroom’ with The Consultants-E (2005-2006).

Publications

Webtoo – bi-monthly Newletter column – for TESOL Italy - the net is about people not content.

Macmillan Flying High Interactive CDRom  levels 2, 3,  and 4

Gender and Moderation: The Style’s The Thing! Valentina Dodge & Sheila Vine, Information Age Publishing 2008 ed. Kimble, Hildreth & Bourdon].

Communities of Practice in the Classroom, CoPs to support students, Virtual CoPs supporting new and existing teachers, CoPs in informal education, CoPs supporting educational specialists, Informal CoPs created by interested educational practitioners

E-learning styles – an emoderator’s responsibility? Learning Technologies Newsletter Oct 2006

eChatBoX- dynamically creating a resource for real-time emoderator
co author: Valentina Dodge, Italy, and Sheila Vine ,Germany published by HLT- Humanizing Language Teaching online pilgrims publication Year 8; Issue 3; May 06

TCE- ICT in the Classroom course was shortlisted for the 2007 British Council ELTON awards – http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-innovation-awards-2007-shortlist.htm

This is where I live in the heart of a very beautiful town in the South of Italy!