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Picture	Real Name	Avatar Name	Who/What we teach in SL/RL
	Nergiz Kern	Daffodil Fargis	RL: General, Business and Technical English to adults, Exam preparation, (German and Turkish). SL: General English course, pre-intermediate. Plan to take Bus.Engl. students to SL to practise meetings, etc.
	Alicia Barbitta	Wonderalica Alturas	RL: Business and Tech.English to adults.BECexams.w.w.focus.edu.uy SL: Took TTC. Experienced some inworld classes. Recently launched Business EnglishandSpanish Conversation courses in 'Virtlantis' -Launchroom 30.
	Elderbob Brannan	Elderbob Beaumont
	Nellie Deutsch	Nellie Homewood
	Graham Stanley	Baldric Commons	RL: EFL (Young Learners) and ESP (Tourism) SL: not teaching but am involved in language learning in http://teen.secondlife.com for the British Council
	Vance Stevens	Webhead Link
	Pete MacKichan	Pete McConachie	RL: Educational Technologist, EFL Teacher (EAP, Business, Legal). SL: ex-LanguageLab materials writer/teacher, I'm now developing my own project.
	I s m a i l	Horizon Mile	RL: ESL/ TOEFL & IELTS Pre./ CALL. SL: still exploring..
	Randi Harlev	Imam Ember	RL: Design and develop materials for ELT, both online and print; give professional development courses for EFL teachers SL: total newbie...hope to learn a lot from all of you!
	Howard Vickers	Howie Yoshikawa
	Dafne Gonzalez	Daf Smirnov	RL: 1. ESP (Eng. for Architecture / Urban Planning) 2. Teacher Education (Technology - methodology - Alternative Assessment) SL: Spanish & SL skills for teachers at Languagelab.com
	Michael Shade	Misha Writer	RL: I teach Spanish at the University of Brighton, UK SL: Misha stumbles about from time to time. Still trying to get Uni to allow access.
	Susana Canelo	Susana Capra
	Maru del Campo	Mmvcentro Jewell	RL: General English Lessons, TOEFL Preparation Lessons, Private Practice as Psychologist, Enabling Computer Literacy with LearnFree (AprendeLibre) and BaeL free sites. BaeL site is a closed site, if you wish to join please end me an email to grant you access. Thanks. SL: Planning to develop and offer General English and Spanish lessons
	Robert Squires	Rian Staheli
	Dot MacKenzie	Zahir Tiki	RL: ESP (science), CALL, GE (Social science)
	Anne Breckenridge	Golondrina Bracken	I teach English and French to adults. Experience in the past with Spanish and Portuguese teaching. Living in Alsace.
	Dennis Newson	Osnacantab	Not currently teaching. Focus of interest EFL/ESOL
	Nina Lyulkun	Nagora Yakubu	RL: ESP and General English for students majoring in economics at uni. SL: Learning myself to move around.
	Natasa Bozic Grojic	Natalija Wingtips	RL: General English - adults. SL: a total beginner
	Minhaaj ur Rehman	Minhaaj Thespian	RL - Human Resource Management and ESL teacher SL - Educational Technology and developing
	Michael Ivy	Michel Mikoyan	Teacher, British Council Rome. I teach mainly adults but also one class of teenagers. I am interested in 2nd Life as a learning environment but I mu just a beginner.
	Evelyn Izquierdo	Evelyn Michalski	RL: Msc in EFL. ESP teacher at the School of Education - Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Webhead since 2005. Founder member of Avealmec (Venezuelan CALL Association), 2007 SL: Receiving training to teach Spanish
	Jennifer Verschoor	Tamara Ashton	RL: Business English Teacher, Teacher Trainer SL: Still have lots to learn and explore
	Nelba Quintana	Nelba Aeon	RL: Designs and develops on line materials for ELT (specially blogs) t; give professional development courses for EFL teachers. Webhead since 2002. WorldCall 2008 awardee. Writing Matrix leader in Argentina. SL: neither a newbie nor an expert
	Isabelle Jones	Isabelle Firanelli	RL: Language teacher (French and Spanish with some experience of German and EFL) in a 11-16 school in England. Qualified translator/ interpreter, tech enthusiast and keen blogger (My Languages blog) SL: Keen to explore the possibilities of SL for language teaching (Newbie)
	Carol Rainbow	Carolrb Roux	RL - Teaching teachers and/or children computer skills in the UK. SL - Learning Spanish:-) Currently helping to create a project for developing literacy skills based on Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-cat nonsense poem.
	Antonella Berriolo	Anna Begonia	RL: Italian SL teacher at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Barcellona and Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. SL: Learning every day. At the moment, experimenting with some teaching as well http://italianiamo.wordpress.com (to read about some of the activities http://italianiamo.wordpress.com/category/attivita-italianiamo/ and entertaining myself creating freebies http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&MerchantID=118864
	Dan Roggenkamp	Wenkai Firefly	RL: English teacher, NPUE Student, always SL: Do you ever feel like you just don't have a second life?
	Frank Stonehouse Lupo	Salty Saenz	RL: EFL Teacher Trainer and Cambridge TKT Prep Course Facilitator. Creator of Mexico English Teachers' Alliance (META) at http://metamexico.ning.com SL: EFL Teacher Training facility at SLEnglish on Virtlantis Island. Also, member of Chilbo Community and various SL Groups (DEN, ISTE, META, SLEnglish, TNC, etc.)
	Babette Hanson	Elizabeth Hanson-Smith	RL: Prof emeritus at CSU, Sacramento, CA, USA; lead designer, Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive; pedagogical consultant, Live Action English Interactive. SL: Just learning!
	Steve	Shoshone Zessinthal	RL: Writer of fiction and technical writer for software development. Spanish, French and German spoken. Beginning Italian and Korean. SL: Very keen to explore as much about this new virtual world as possible. Interested in the possibilities for manipulating free code.
	Chris	Tigran Tiponi	RL: English tutor in UK, 16+ college - ESOL, IELTS & FCE SL: exploring the teaching potential
	Doug Canfield	Rockytop Berchot	RL: French/ESL instructor, Director of LRC @ UTK SL: Owner of VolNation, ESL writer/teacher at Languagelab.com
	Doris Molero	Pionia Destiny	RL: EFL Ptofessor at URBE in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Webhead Member since 2002. Created the ning scommunity EFL University and numerous blogs in both Spanish and Eglish. Everybody is invited to join us! SL: newvie... but loving what I have learned so fast... looking forward to create, participate and share great adventures.
	Beth Collingwood	Betty Draken	RL: ESL adult educator currently working in both classroom and online contexts. SL: Exporing possibililtes. Unsure how sucessful SL platform is for intermed/lower levels. Enjoying the SL experience so far!
	Laura Fedeli	CorDeRosa Loire	RL: Italian as a Second Language to: immigrant students (from pre-school to high school), university students SL: designing lesson plans for Italian language students, tutoring
	Helen Davies	juniper Pralou	RL : English teacher in secondary school France SL : Learning all the time - a beginner I can't seem to upload a photo - will try again soon
	Barb Sakamoto	Lynn Carlucci	RL: EFL (young learners & adults); teacher trainer (elementary teachers); materials writer (Let's Go Third Edition as Barbara Hoskins, pub. Oxford U. Press) SL: permanent student, I think!
	Simon Bourn	Frith Rhiadra	RL: English teacher at a graduate school of engineering, Nantes, France; business and live online language training (English and French) through Englishonthe.net. SL: Teaching role-play-based business English with Talkademy. Experimenting with my own learning space at Virtatlantis.
	Mary Roussel	Maria Pinto	RL: Language Teacher (ESL and Spanish). Educational Technologist. SL: Learning to have a life in SL. Exploring teaching and learning a lot from others.
	Sanja Božinović	San Krokus	RL: Language Teacher (EFL at Gornjogradska Gimnazija Zagreb, Croatia, and Italian as a foreign language at the same high school) SL: Still learning about SL and teaching in SL
	Graham Davies	Groovy Winkler	Retired Professor of CALL, former teacher of German, ICT nerd and SL addict. I manage the EUROCALL HQ in SL on EduNation III and I am the EUROCALL rep for the Joint CALICO/EUROCALL Virtual Worlds SIG. I have written a large section on SL in Section 14.2.1 of Module 1.5 at the ICT4LT website. http://grahamdavies.wikispaces.com
	Ton Koenraad	Koen Antonioni	ICT-E Consultant at Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. Long time passion for CALL. Current interest MOOving to exploring 3D effectiveness for SLA. Involved in AW and SL projects (ViTAAL & NIFLAR). More info and papers here: http://www.callinpractice.net/koenraad/vrall-2
	Mehmet Sahin	Izmir Serevi	RL: Assistant Professor of Translation and Interpretation at Izmir University of Economics
	Holly S. Longstroth	HollySue Wycliffe	RL: 1) Corporate Language Training 2) Live Online English Teacher ( www.cwcnow.com ) 3) Live Online Teacher Trainer ( www.lancelotschool.com ) SL: (but it is 'real' too! grin) 1) Part of the AVALON project 2) Will teach a Business English course (starting in June 2009)
	Edith Paillat	Cyber Placebo	RL: Language Technology Specialist at Victoria University of Wellington, NZ . I train language teaching staff to integrate technology in teaching and learning. Formerly teacher and teacher trainer of French and English FL in Asia, England and NZ. SL: Interested in French FL teaching and learning on SL Very willing and excited to observe and contribute to SLanguage's CoP, firmly believe that there is an immense potential for blended and distance learning, cultural exchanges :-)
	Helen Myers email	Karelia Kondor	RL: Assistant Head and Language teacher at The Ashcombe School, Surrey, UK - an 11-18 state comprehensive where I lead regular, free workshops on use of ICT for Language teaching. Moderator of a popular Yahoo language teacher group: mflresources. Chair of the ALL London branch. ALL is the UK's only independent professional language teacher association. SL: Keen to use SL as a venue for socialising and learning language and language methods with the many people/friends I meet 'virtually' on email fora. Have rented land from Edunation here. Have set up an ALL/mflresources SL group to make newbies feel safe as they take their first steps (hopefully they will migrate to SLExperiments!) I learn Italian with Anna Begonia in her Italianiamo group on Monday evenings - è una insegnante magnifica! Grazie Anna! Eventually would love to teach in a secure-for-teenagers SL look-alike!
	Denise Kastoudi	Esther Verino	RL: French Teacher Teaching in Secondary Education in Greece. Also taught English in the past. Interested in the implementation of ICT in the language classroom. Just started writing my master's thesis on Virtual Reality and Language Teaching. SL: Absolute beginner, but willing to be fully engaged for the purposes of my thesis. My plan is to create a virtual application, test it and report on its efficiency. I hope I can meet virtual friends as well...
(pics to be added soon)	Susanna Nocchi	Su Nacht	RL: Assistant Lecturer in Italian as a Foreign Language in Third Level Education. Teaches classes at all levels and is VERY interested in CALL and ICT for language teaching and learning. Designs and develops teaching material. Involved in teacher training. SL: exploring for the moment. Trying to set up a pilot class to research Intercultural Awareness and Communication in SL.
	Maricarmen Gil	Maika Giordano	RL: Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of the West of England. SL: Born earlier on this year. Still exploring the endless possibilities to increase the cultural awareness and linguistic practice of my students.
	Nina Liakos	Nina Zaytsev	RL: Lecturer in ESL, University of Maryland College Park (USA) SL: not teaching, have taken some workshops and attended presentations. Still learning!
	Tamas Lorincz	Mash Quandry	RL: Teacher mentor, and English teacher at a scondary school in the Middle East. SL: Absolute beginner trying to learn, network, get involved with the community
	Gutemberg Fox	Fox Gearz	RL: EFL teacher, researcher on New ICTs of mass and local newspaper writer in Palmas-TO, BR (www.gutembergfox.com) SL: Newbie :-)

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Hi guys!
Welcome! Thanks Daf, your instructions are easy, you are he Pbwiki Queen :-) The html code remains as Nergiz mentions, if you want your picture to show in a diferent size click "source code" find your the place where your picture is and change the size. Its seems that 120 x 120 works nice.
See you around. Besos

oooohhh I liked the hard way!!! Oh welll ...

I found the route Daf explains by the 'hit and miss' method - or rather, several 'misses' before an eventual 'hit'. You have to spot the Files and Images tab, and realise that's what it's for. The alignment of text and images within the cells of the table is erratic, as well - some are Left, some Centre, some Top, some Bottom - how can you control this?

Hi Michael, you are right, not everything on pbwiki is intuitive. But that's why I like collaborating; everybody knows something and there is usually somebody who can help. The table doesn't look perfect either. So, if anybody know how to make it look better, please, go ahead and do it.

Anne Breckenridge suggested one more column where everybody can write who they teach. I like the idea but have to admit I don't know how to add a column to the existing table. Can anybody help - maybe the old way ;-) ?

hi!! I've added the column :-).... pure intuition......Hope it helps!

Wonderful, Alicia! Thanks so much! I followed your intuition and found out that you can left-click (my guess because I'm on a Mac) into the table and can choose options for inserting or deleting cells and rows, background colour and alignment. Michael, maybe that's how you can make the table tool better. Go ahead and try it.

I found a much easier way. Just copy the image of another participant, paste it in your cell, right click, choose image properties, replace the image link with yours. Then save.
I have created mine the other day, but now it disappeared! :-( I'm not sure what happened, but will try again later after I get the url for it.

That's ingenious, Ismail :-) And I can see your picture now (it was broken yesterday).

Hi Nergiz! Right, that was the way I did it. Left clicking. I also thought about Ifael way, but mind you that after doing it perfectly well I touched something and the rows and columns experienced a strange look. I was frightened to death! Luckily at the bottom of the page you have the 'cancel' option. I also tried it myself for the first time thinking that will not consider the changes......and YES! all went back to the beginning....so I tried again and did not touch anything else. I was afraid we could also miss the participants' pictures.....So, for newbies like me, if there is anything wrong when you modify things in the 'editing' process.....just click cancel and start your 'last' job again... :-)

My image sstrandkorb.bmp is too large and wrong format. How can I delete?

Beginning to get the hang of this wiki - mostly do-it-yourself. Now added myself to the list manually.

Dennis, I have reduced the size a bit but it's still too large. You can go to http://www.picresize.com/, crop and resize your pictures and save it as jpg. If that tool doesn't work there are many others. Google for "resize pictures".
We are all learning, Dennis. It's much more fun together :)

Dennis, we all added ourselves manually here. It's meant to be like that.

Nerqiz- It's like shop doors. Sometimes they open and close automatically, sometimes you have to do it yourself! Fine by me. I've resized and uploaded a different photo, but I'd still like to delete the first one. Mmm. If you upload to profile, a miniature automatically appears whenever you write. To appear in list of participants, though, it's a manual job. Really looking forward to meeting you all.

The participant page has nothing to do with the general pbwiki account settings, Dennis. It is a simple page created by me and there is no possibility to link it to your account. It is similar to a table in a word document. You can delete the other picture here: Upload/view files (top right-hand corner of the page). Hope this helps. I'm also looking forward to meeting you this Friday.

Keep trying Dennis! You're easily getting the gist of it. Basically everything is managed through 'edit', and the options: save, edit, paste, copy, etc, from the top of the screen.
Just keep on, I've also asked many things at the beginning and will continue doing so. That's the purpose of this list. 'sharing'. Go to the links on the sidebar, and add anything pertinent to them, if you feel like it.

I am so intriguing reading this discussion that heading on to add myself to the list. ;-)

I've added my avatar, but I don't remember my SL name. I will add it a bit later when i figure it out.
It was easy to add the avatar: just put the cursor where the pic should be and then clicked on the pic uploaded before. That's it, much easier than I expected.

Thanks to everyone's hints, especially Daf's, got my photo inserted. What a CRAZY design, Pbwiki. I bet everyone, logically, looks for button, like the link button. I doubt if I would EVER have worked this out on my own - and it would help, too, to be told that images cannot be inserted, they have to be uploaded and then linked, though one is used to that, of course, from blogs. SL, here I come! Actually I was there this afternoon in Languagelab and watched a Machima (??) film.

Hi Everyone!
I am learning a lot reading this conversation, true collaborative learning. I had a great time today in our meeting, non stop learning, thanks for sharing your Villa with us Dennis. Love: Maru

Welcome Michael and Minhaaj!!
I hope you can join us in our weekly meetings, I learn a lot from all the participants.
See you around. Love: Maru

Hello everybody!!
Really glad to join you all. I won´t be very active this month because I´m travelling to Japan to attend WorldCall.
I´ll keep checking this wiki.
Warm regards
Jennifer

Hi Jennifer!
Welcome to the wiki! Enjoy your stay in Japan. Please give my regards to the Warde's and Webheads you see over there. Well done! We will be here when you are back to continue learning.
Besos. Maru

Welcome Isabelle and Carol! Thanks for joining. Looking forward to seeing you at our meetings.
Love: Maru

Hi there

I will join you later as it is unlikely I will be able to make it for the beginning of the meeting.

Looking forward to meet you all

Isabelle (Firanelli)
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

Chris/Tigran, welcome! I like the way your avatar looks. It has such a characteristic face. See you in-world soon.

I have been a little bit behind in tidying up this page. I will get to it fairly soon. I have been quite busy lately... :(

No worries, Steve!
You've already done a lot and all the other tables look great.

I wanted to upload a photo of my avatar but forgot I don't have any on this computer. I'll change it in a few days.

Ton, Mehmet, great to see you here.
Hope to see you in one of your in-world meetings.

Hi Nergiz, Maru and all. Thank you for accepting me here. Time ago I used to have an account and my avatar, but I don`t know if it still exists.
We`ll see.

Hi Horacio. It's a pleasure to have you here. If you can't remember your avatar name and password, you might want to check if you still have the account confirmation from Second Life. If you know which email address you used, you might also call the toll free number and ask for assistance. But you can also simply create a new one if you are not attached to the old avatar. Let us know about your progress.

Hi Horacio!
I second Nergiz words! Keep in mind that if you keep receiving a message saying that your computer doesn't meet SL requirements you won't be able to use the tool easily. However, if you have access to a PC with a graphic card powerfull enough to navegate in SL go ahead and follow our friend's advice. Let us know if you need something! Besos

Hi Nergiz!
I had great time visiting SL meeting for the first time. I enjoyed talking to Dennis a bit, and then I couldn't recognize you in Daffodil role. You are so graceful and nice in that long beautiful dress. I could hear you and Dennis talking, but something wrong was with my voice. I have to learn how to fix it.
I had to leave very soon - it was time to see a doctor. Hopping to join weekly meetings again and learn more. Actually, I have to come back to all the messages and learn from the instructions which i have found at Edunations.
Have a nice weekend.

Hi Nina! Thanks! It was a great pleasure meeting you in SL. I really hope to see you again soon. Actually, I could hear you fine. If you need anything or have question, please ask.

Hello everyone, nice to be a part of this enterprise! I just glanced through the discussion on uploading pictures--something I always have difficulty with on pbworks because I forget from one time to the next. This time I clicked on Help and followed the instructions (=Daf's easy way), and then discovered to my delight that I have plenty of company in the confused corner! LOL

I'd like to join in saying how happy I am to be here, and looking forward to all that I'm going to learn from you guys.
I'm a newbie with some technical challenge, but will get there.

Thanks
Mash Quandry (Tamas Lorincz)

We are happy to have you here, Tamas. Thanks for joining!
We've all been newbies and know how it is.
Hope to see you later.

Welcome Denise! Hope to meet you in-world soon.

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