Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators

Editors, Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth and Isabelle Bourdon
Publisher, Information Age Publishing

As a two volume set:
Hard cover ISBN: 1593118678 , Soft cover ISBN: 159311866X

As separate volumes:
Hard Cover - Vol 1 ISBN: 1593118635 , Vol 2 ISBN: 1593118651
Soft Cover - Vol 1 ISBN: 1593118627 , Vol 2 ISBN: 1593118643


Author

Valentina Dodge, University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy

Biography

Valentina Dodge is a teacher, teacher trainer and online moderator. She works part-time at the University of Naples and co-manages a consultancy specializing in tailor-made Business courses in the Salerno area. Having worked in education for over twenty years, and as a consultant for local and European projects for the past five, she is involved in setting up, running, and mentoring trans-national projects at secondary school level involving ICT and developing educational material for international exchanges. Together with Sheila Vine she has co-designed/moderated online courses for German companies via their online company www.worldwide-webquests.com, worked online on the award wining "ICT in the Classroom" courses and developed and co-presented the e-moderator's exchange www.echatbox.com at the IATEFL International Conference.

Chapters

Volume 2, Chapter 19 - Gender and Moderation: The Style's The Thing!