
Shelly Terrell
Shelly Sanchez Terrell is a teacher trainer, author, and international speaker. She is the host of American TESOL’s Free Friday Webinars and the Social Media Community Manager for The Consultants-E. She has co-founded and organized the acclaimed educational projects, Edchat, ELTChat, The Reform Symposium E-Conference and the ELTON nominated Virtual Round Table language and technology conference. Her prolific presence in the educator community through social media has been recognized by several notable entities, such as The New York Times, UNESCO Bangkok, Edweek, Converge Magazine, the United Federation of Teachers, the 140 Conference, Mashable, English Central, Tefl.net, and T/H/E JOURNAL. Her education blog, Teacher Reboot Camp, is ranked as one of the top 10 language teaching and technology blogs and the 50 best blogs for education leaders. In 2012 find her book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators published by Eye on Education and participate with over 7000 educators worldwide in this online professional development course that helps educators develop Personal Learning Networks and accomplish social media and teaching goals. Find her on Twitter, @ShellTerrell. Shelly has taught English language learners at various levels since 1998 in the US, Greece, and in Germany. She currently presents and hosts workshops on integrating technology effectively with young learners and adults. Shelly holds an Honours BA in English and a minor in Communication with a specialization in Electronic Media from the University of Texas in San Antonio and an Honours MA in Curriculum Instruction ESL from the University of Phoenix.
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Shelly Terrell on Sunday, June 21st 2009
No More Textbooks Is educational technology Capitol Hill’s latest buzz word? Three current events appear to suggest that politicians are aiming to revolutionize the educational system through technology. Probably the most famous news item was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to reduce the California budget by replacing textbooks with e-books. Grumble, grumble you may… “This decision only [...]
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Posted by
Shelly Terrell on Tuesday, June 16th 2009
Last week I began my journey of teaching Twitter online on Edufire. In my last post of this series, I wrote about my initial experience using Twitter as an educational tool. The focus switched from having Twitter discussions to teaching Twitter basics when I discovered most of my students were newby Twitterers. In this post [...]
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Posted by
Shelly Terrell on Sunday, June 14th 2009
Photo adapted from Flickr by kevindooley licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic. Lately, I have been reading about some exciting summer plans from my Personal Learning Network (PLN). The summer theme seems to be set in improving instructional techniques by learning to integrate technology effectively into the curriculum. Therefore, I will post a few of [...]
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Posted by
Shelly Terrell on Wednesday, June 10th 2009
This past week I was inspired like many of you by the Twitter experiment performed at UT Dallas. As an online teacher, I was excited about the various possibilities in which I could get my learners to carry discussions outside of the forum as I presented the materials. I enjoy small classes for online teaching. [...]
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Posted by
Shelly Terrell on Saturday, June 6th 2009
While gathering materials for this post, I was distracted by photographs, Power Points, and videos of my teaching experiences in the US. I miss those days of teaching to a room full of 30 students. I miss chaperoning proms and attending sports games, awards ceremonies, and so forth. Now, I enjoy much smaller classrooms. The [...]
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