Teresa Almeida d'Eça

Teresa Almeida d'Eça has been an EFL teacher for over 30 years and has taught at most levels. She has a Master's in American Studies from the Open University of Lisbon, Portugal. She lives and teaches in the suburbs of Lisbon. For the past four years she's been teaching middle school, 5th and 6th grades (1st & 2nd year EFLers). She loves teaching and finds it an even more challenging task since the arrival of ICTs. She also loves computers, the Internet and interacting with friends and colleagues worldwide. She carried out three email cultural exchanges and started blogging with her students in Nov. 2003. Her two current teacher-student blogs are Have Fun with English! 2 and CALL Lessons 2005-2007.

She did her first online course, Integrating the Internet in the Classroom, with Michael Krauss in October 2001. In January 2002, she joined the Webheads in Action for an online teacher development workshop, and since then she's been actively involved in the cyberworld of education. She has co-moderated the Becoming a Webhead online teacher development workshop with Dafne Gonzalez since 2004 and has also co-taught, with Dafne, PP 104: Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar Online, a credited online course that is part of TESOL's "Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program".

She has two books published, NetAprendizagem:A Internet na Educação (1998) and O Email na Sala de Aula (2002), both pioneer works in her country.

She presents regularly at conferences at home and abroad. She is a member of APPI (Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Inglês), the Webheads in Action, and TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). She's currently ending ending her second term as Past Chair of the TESOL Technology Advisory Committee (TAC).

If you'd like to know more about her and her work, please visit her Web site.