Members of the E-HELP project

Richard Jones-Nerzic (France: International School of Toulouse): I am Richard Jones-Nerzic, History teacher and Head of Humanities at the International School of Toulouse. I am coordinator of the E-Help project. When it opened in 1999, the IST was Europe's first fully laptop school. My website is an attempt to document this educational experiment. I am an administrator of this forum and the Student Education Forum I am also a member of the European Virtual School History Department. 

Nico Zijlstra (Netherlands: Sintermeerten College, Heerlen): I am a History teacher teaching in a Secondary School in Heerlen, The Netherlands. I run my own website Sintermeerten History website. I also work closely together with a webdesign firm called E-Linq which is specialized in ICT implementation in schools. As a member of the Virtual School team I've become involved in the E-Help project.

Juan Carlos Ocaña (Spain: IES Parque de Lisboa, Madrid): I am Head of History Department in a Secondary School in Alcorcón, near Madrid. I am mainly interested in history teaching on the internet and I have set up my own web site http://www.historiasiglo20.org/ which is focused on 20th century history. I am a member of Virtual School and I have been collaborating in different European projects (Comenius, Spring Day in Europe).

Anders MacGregor-Thunell (Sweden: Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet, Gothenburg): My name is Anders MacGregor-Thunell. I’m currently a full-time teacher of History at Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet, an Upper Secondary School with 1800 students, in the centre of the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. Most of the time I teach IB (International Baccalaureate) History, both Standard and Higher Level, but I also teach History within the ordinary Swedish system. Since 1998 I’ve been the Head of the History Department at Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet. I started my teaching career in the middle of the 1970’s. Just a few years ago I became a member of the Virtual School. Through VS I participate in the development of international web-pages within different history topics. During the last years I have also built up the History Department site on our school’s intranet.
http://www.macgregorishistory.com/

Dalibor Svoboda (Sweden: Fredrika Bremer Gymnasium, Stockholm): I was born in communist Czechoslovakia 1948. In 1968, after the occupation of my country by Warszawa Pact countries suppressing the “Prague spring” I moved to Sweden. After five years of studies at University of Stockholm and different petty jobs I started to teach at Fredrika Bremergymnasiet, an upper secondary school situated in a suburb of Stockholm in 1980. During the 1990s I worked with information technology and pedagogical issues first at Knowledge and Competence Foundation then at National Agency for Education. Now I’m back at my old school teaching the subjects of History, Civics and International Relations. I have been engaged in activities of Virtual School since its start. I have been Head of History department since 1998.

Terry Hadyn (UK: University of East Anglia): I taught history in an inner-city secondary school in Manchester for about 20 years before moving into history teacher education in the early 1990s. Throughout this period I have been interested in the use of new technology in history teaching and it was the subject of my doctoral thesis, tracing the development of ICT in school history over the past 30 years. The main bit of my current job is training history graduates to be secondary history teachers, but I also undertake research into the use of ICT in history. I was Co-editor (together with Christine Counsell) of History, ICT and Learning (London, RoutledgeFalmer 2003), a collection of chapters from several leading UK practitioners in the field of history and ICT, and have a (modest) website at:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~m242/

Andy Walker (UK: Dartford Technology College): I am Andy Walker. I am Head of History and E-Learning Coordinator at Dartford Technology College. I have my own website at Education Forum.co.uk which I use to teach History, Sociology and Vocational Health and Social Care. My web site has been online since 1999. I am the joint founder and an administrator of this forum. I also run the International Student Form in partnership with Richard Jones-Nerzic of the International School of Toulouse. I have been involved in web based projects for the Learning Skills Development Agency and Kent County Council, and in writing work for CGP publications

John Simkin (UK: Spartacus Educational): I have been a history teacher since 1977. In 1979 I was a founder member of the Tressell Publishing Cooperative and in 1984 established Spartacus Educational. Since 1997 I have run the Spartacus Educational website. I have also produced electronic and online resources for a wide range of different organisations including the Guardian (Learn), the Daily Telegraph (Electronic Telegraph), British Library, Historical Association and Becta. I was also a founder member of the Association of Teacher Websites and an early member of the European Virtual School.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
ttp://www.byteachers.org.uk
http://vs.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/index_vs.cfm

Les Albiston (France: International School of Toulouse): I am Principal of the International of Toulouse and have worked in a variety of roles in the realm of education, training and HR for Airbus over the last twenty years, all in Toulouse. My discipline is English and I have a special interest in language acquisition, bilingualism and the cultural challenge of relocation and intercultural managment. 
Apart from the predictable interests in literature, the cinema, music I have a passion for French rugby and English football only surpassed by my utter devotion to Shakespeare.

Dan Lyndon (UK: (UK: Historical Association): I am currently the Head of History and co-ordinator of the Gifted and Talented and Aimhigher programmes at an inner city boys 11-16 comprehensive in London. I have been teaching for 11 years and have been a middle manager for 4 of those. I am particularly interested in promoting a multicultural curriculum for schools history and have been involved in a few online projects such as the National Archives Black Presence website: http://www.pro.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/index.htm and the schoolhistory. co.uk seminars: http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index...?showtopic=1518. I have also recently set up my own website www.comptonhistory.com which has examples of the work that I and the students that I teach have produced.

Rosario Requejo Villasevil (Spain: Alcorcon Teachers Support Centre, Madrid): BA graduate at Complutense University, Madrid (1985). After that, I worked as Spanish Language Assistant in England for a year. Since then I've worked as a secondary school teacher near Madrid. I was also employed by Los Angeles School District, LA California from September 1991 to June 1993 where I first became involved in bilingual education and took different courses on the subject. After coming back to Spain I've participated in different European projects and was appointed Head of Studies (1990-91 and 1995-2005). In September 2005, I was appointed Advisor at the Teacher's Resource Centre in Alcorcón in the Sociolinguistic Department.

Associate members of the E-HELP project

Ed Podesta (UK: ): I am a history teacher in my second qualified year of teaching. I teach history to 11-18 year olds in a comprehensive school in Reading, Berkshire.
Before training as a history teacher I was a practising information technology and intellectual property lawyer. In my spare time I studied history and completed a certificate in post graduate history with the OU. As time when on I realised that it was history and not law that was important to me, and that I waned to communicate my interest in discovering history, so I applied for various PGCE courses. In October 2002 I started my PGCE at Oxford University; more by luck than judgement I stumbled across two fantastic history educators in Dr Anna Pendry and Dr Katharine Burn.
I want my students to do history, not to learn it. I refer to my pupils in lessons as historians and because of my lack of content knowledge (I’ll catch up!) I find that often I am learning alongside my pupils through the activities that we do together.
I suppose that my specialism in terms of teaching is the use of Digital Video. I am currently engaged in some research with Anna Pendry into the use of DV and interactive whiteboards in the classroom. This research will be based in my classroom. The first stage is the use of the documentary form for pupils to improve their essay writing skills. I have largely finished the practical side of this. The second will be the use of footage from sources such as Pathe in classroom activities. The third will involve the creation of video footage by teachers for their use in their classrooms.
It is the first and third aspects that really excite me. In the first aspect I’ve taken an idea from some research by the BFI into the use of DV to improve narrative literacy. I have been using a guidance frame to encourage students (a year 9 class on my PGCE and a year 7 class in my current school) to plan and make documentaries, using a traditional “source sheet” as their starting point.
In the third aspect I want to encourage teachers to make their own, focused footage. If they don’t want to set out specifically to make a film on a distinct topic then I hope to inspire other teachers to take a video camera with them on holidays, days out, going to town, and if they see something interesting and potentially useful, to stick it on tape, and to use this footage in their lessons.
You can see an low quality example of a video that I’m currently working on at:
http://www.podesta.org.uk/
This example took me a couple of hours to shoot and a couple of hours to edit using windows movie maker.

Ed Waller (UK: ): Hi, I'm Ed Waller. Currently I'm teaching History in a Southampton sec school, and am Head of Department for my sins!!
In a former existance, I was a lecturer at Portsmouth Uni for 6 years (Economic History), and, yes, I am sad enough to have endured the whole PhD process.
Nowadays I try to get by on my Departmental budget and bring in new ideas (esp ICT) to the teaching of my colleagues (2 x SMT and 1 x HOY).
Ed

Albert van der Kaap (NL): Albert van der Kaap is Community manager of the History Department of Kennisnet (main portal for schools in the Netherlands).
http://www.digischool.nl/gs/community/hist...historsites.htm