Integrating the Internet into the Classroom
Facilitator: Michael Krauss, AES, Lewis & Clark College

Here are photos and comments from a few former course participants.
Click on the small photos to see larger versions.

Spring 1999

Hello everybody, My name is Danuse Zahradnickova, my friends call me Dana. I come from Brno, region Morava, the Czech Republic. I used to teach English to children (9-15) but since 1992 I've been working in the in-service teacher training office at Masaryk University in Brno as an administrator, coordinator and a teacher-trainer. My biggest challenge is to improve my computer skills and to increase the use of computers in my work.

My name is Zuzana Sehnalova, I am a secondary school teacher in the Czech Republic, my biggest hobbies are skiing in winter, bicycling and hiking in summer. I have two daughters and I think I am quite a happy person... N·sledujÌcÌ oddÌl obsahuje soubor, kter› byl pro p¯enos upraven do form·tu MIME. PouæÌv·te-li Pegasus Mail, nebo jin› požt. program, vyhovujÌcÌ MIME, m˜æete jej zobrazit/oddÏlit p¯Ìmo važÌmpožt. programem, jinak poæ·dejte o pomoc spr·vce systÈmu.

Hi! My name is Gabriela Kleckova from the Czech Republic. I am a former teacher of English at Gymnazium Plzen, but now I am a graduate student at the University of Memphis in the USA, working on my Master's degree in ESL. The thing I enjoy most about teaching is the interaction with students. My challenge is to find effective and enjoyable ways of teaching English, especially to the advanced students. I'm looking to find Internet resources for my teaching and to "discover the undiscovered!"

Hello everybody, I am Stanislava Ivanova from Varna, Bulgaria (on the Black Sea coast). I teach at the Postgraduate Studies Center of the Naval Academy at Varna. My students are Naval officers who come for intensive English courses. In my free time, I sometimes do free lance work as in interpreter. I enjoy my students who are mature, intelligent, disciplined and motivated, yet sometimes too rule oriented! I look forward to working with you all!

Hello, I am one of the online course participants and I am sending you a photograph of me though I have seen better ones. I am 29 years old and I have been teaching for about three years. Besides English itself and teaching my other hobbies are gliding (and airplanes in general) and photography. Nowadays I concentrate on the latter one as flying is getting more and more expensive in my aeroclub. My favourite drinks are red wine and beer (try real Czech beer - it´s excellent). I am the agriculture teacher you mentioned in your Day 4 e-mail. Thank you for the WWW link. My first impression is highly positive but I am going to explore the site after finishing the course when I have more time. Goodbye, Vlad Kadlec

My name is Gejza Pastor. I am 45 and I am a teacher of English and Physical Education at a 4-year technical school (students aged 15-19)in B¯eclav, Czech Republic. B¯eclav is situated in the most southeastern part of the Cz.Rep. nearly bordering on Slovakia and Austria. After finishing my University, until the Velvet Revolution in 1989 I could not teach English, so since 1990 I have been trying to "recreate" and improve it. English became one of my hobbies. In addition to my family(2 kids -Michal 12,Iva 15) I like most kinds of sports, especially hiking, mountaineering, skiing, swimming, cycling etc.

Hello! I'm Merike Kivilo, a teacher of English in Kuressaare High School and Estonian Business School. I have worked in Kuressaare for 17 years. Kuressaare is the only town on the island Saaremaa. This is really a beautiful island and in summertime it is full of tourists from different parts of the world. If you happen to come to Europe, pay us a visit and you'll not regret it. So, I like my island, my people and my job. Teaching is not an easy job, but the fruit of teaching can be sometimes very sweet.

I am Olga Nozhnina, from Odessa, a southern port on the Black Sea, Ukraine. I used to teach English to University students but at the moment I am an ELT Co-ordinator, the British Council, Ukraine. I like traveling and meeting people, so in summers I work as an interpreter/group leader for travel agencies to see the world free. I think I am a happy person sharing my interests in photography and Mediterranean countries culture and history with my seventeen year old daughter Julia. It was my pleasure to participate in the project. Welcome to Odessa! Vsego vam dobrogo (With very best wishes) Olga

Fall 1998

Greetings from Nina Daskalovska, an English teacher for nine years from Strumica, Macedonia. Nina teaches in a secondary school and says her greatest challenge is to, ". . make my students understand that they don't study for me, for their parents or for better grades, but that they study for themselves because English is very important."

Hi from Vincent Credere. Vincent says, "I am an American who has been teaching in Lithuania for 6 years. I enjoyed the on-line course given by Michael Krauss in the Fall of 1998. I hope to be able to chat with all of you in a future on-line course given by Michael."

This is Eunice Cosmic from Hungary. She works at Eotvos University in Budapest and loves to spend time with her husband and infant son. She was on maternity leave during the workshop.

Violate Nikolova, from Strumica, Macedonia teaches secondary and primary students of mixed English language abilities. She is a former participant in an American Studies Workshop at the Salzburg Seminar and wants to "keep pace with the world..."

Created by: krauss@lclark.edu
Updated: 11/8/02