
Hello, my name is Ana Cristina Pratas Passionate about education & using ICT to enhance learning, online/distance education, music & photography; can't live without sun, sea & open skies.
25+ years of teaching at Tertiary Education - Language and Content subjects;
Experienced in Designing Online Courses
Experienced in Online/Distance Tutoring
In-company Consultant/Trainer for International Communication in the Business World
Law Translation; German Language; Literary Studies; Cultural Studies; Translation Studies; Business Studies and Communication; EAP for the Medical Sciences; EAP for Management; EAP and ESP, and ELT.
Have experience of teaching at Higher Education in:
Portugal, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, the UK and Japan.
Experience in EdTech (Educational Technology) training in Developing Countries
Experience in EdTech (Educational Technology) for Teacher Training
Curator
Digital Delights - Connecting Online Education
Digital Delights for Learners
Digital Delights - Avatars & Virtual Worlds
Digital Delights - Image Editing
Digital Delights for Digital Learning- Contemporary Digital Tribes
Voices in the Feminine - Women's Writing Around the Web
Blogs:
CristinaSkyBox (Award winning EdTech blog in 2011, 2012)
Mind Mirrors - Reflections on Change with Educators, Social Media Specialists
Dreaming Weaving Learning - Blog on Current Education
Nameste Nepal! Voices in the Mist
Goals:
Online Course Design and Online Teaching, Teacher Training
Specialties: ICT for Education, Online/Distance Education, English for Academic Purposes, English for International Business Communication
‘I’ve decided to stop apologising’: Lisa Taddeo on women and rage | Women | The Guardian sco.lt/7h0ZYu be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
June 13, 2021

DALL·E: Creating Images from Text openai.com/blog/dall-e/?u… pic.twitter.com/6Z3X52XpMU
January 7, 2021

December 23, 2020
Lessons from the Pandemic - Stephen Downes sco.lt/9Bi3pw
December 9, 2020
Being Online: Facing the Digital Future Together - by Stephen Downes sco.lt/62JkLw
December 2, 2020

Video Meetings, Video Conferencing and Screen Sharing | Whereby sco.lt/5h0q36 pic.twitter.com/yAuE5ht9GP
November 30, 2020
Kinopio sco.lt/7n3kOm
November 30, 2020

PDF Buddy - Online PDF Editor sco.lt/5JG1mS pic.twitter.com/T46n0Ns1BQ
November 13, 2020

PDF Editor & Tools | Good Annotations sco.lt/8kcJSC pic.twitter.com/5sobBVWVnW
November 12, 2020

Why, 'logically', online learning is superior to face-to-face teaching - Tony Bates sco.lt/8mKGbw pic.twitter.com/WLlRTDbCSp
October 31, 2020
Open Broadcaster Software®️ - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
October 30, 2020

Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees sco.lt/5leJIO pic.twitter.com/8jWoe9emt6
October 17, 2020

Fake news and critical thinking in ELT sco.lt/8sj7Ng pic.twitter.com/GNvbMtKLoZ
October 17, 2020

Stop telling students to study STEM instead of humanities for the post-coronavirus world sco.lt/98DxSa pic.twitter.com/3YPTxzh3cz
October 15, 2020

Empathy Isn’t Enough: Power Imbalances In Edtech Must Shift sco.lt/4p0ot6 pic.twitter.com/NiNFOeQJ7K
October 14, 2020

Donald Clark Plan B: Engagement - most used yet most misunderstood word in learning? sco.lt/7uqeLQ pic.twitter.com/PipFWmcuNX
October 11, 2020

October 6, 2020

October 6, 2020
Sustainability | Free Full-Text | The UnMOOCing Process: Extending the Impact of MOOC Educational Resources as OERs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
October 5, 2020

Instructional Design for a New Generation sco.lt/5GD3z6 pic.twitter.com/sG3a8IyXx8
October 5, 2020

October 5, 2020
elearn Magazine: Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Hybrid Video Dialogue: The context of virtually connecting… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
October 5, 2020

Issues to Consider Before Adopting a Digital Platform or Learning Program sco.lt/4kx2Po pic.twitter.com/mksjOIgakc
October 4, 2020

Radical Flexibility and Relationality as Responses to Education in Times of Crisis sco.lt/98ISZM pic.twitter.com/ICj2lhXXod
October 3, 2020

A Principal's Reflections: High-Agency in the Remote and Hybrid Classroom sco.lt/7Z41NA #edu pic.twitter.com/7qEwlUjLVJ
October 2, 2020

revisiting cooperation sco.lt/8clKq0 pic.twitter.com/yZBROsvAOd
October 2, 2020

October 1, 2020

September 30, 2020
Vol 8 No SI (2020): Special Issue: 2019 New Materialist Reconfiguring Higher Education Conference | Critical Studie… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
September 30, 2020

Simpdf - Simple PDF editor sco.lt/8ETaDY could come in handy when converting documents pic.twitter.com/Fq1ZduRTQE
September 28, 2020

The corridor of uncertainty: Visibility in online meetings sco.lt/5jtwtU pic.twitter.com/v1cUQpH87B
September 28, 2020

September 28, 2020

5 tips on how unis can do more to design online learning that works for all students sco.lt/5nrVZI pic.twitter.com/QE8U7AiE6h
September 27, 2020
“Mind the gap”: Critical insights on the urgent transition to online learning in a time of crisis – Part one… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
September 27, 2020

Pedagogy of Care — Gone Massive sco.lt/7Lq7vM pic.twitter.com/KniHvT217c
September 25, 2020

We Rise and Fall Together: Assessment during COVID-19 sco.lt/6gR9JA pic.twitter.com/hxKYhJqt1y
September 24, 2020
Innovation and on-line and digital learning: five myths, five barriers, and five strategies by Tony Bates… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
September 23, 2020


Benefits of Online Learning
January 30, 2018
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Learning is....
June 11, 2017
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Online Student Success
March 15, 2016
E-learning, Distance Education-- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/youtube/ -- Create animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation templates help you create animated presentations and animated explainer videos from scratch. Anyone can produce awesome animations quickly with PowToon,...


Web Conferencing Tools
June 7, 2015
Online Conferencing Tools, WebConferencing Tools-- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/join -- Create animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation templates help you create animated presentations and animated explainer videos from scratch. Anyone can produce awesome animations quickly...


K is for Katherine
June 6, 2015
ELT Publishing, ELT Teacher Training, ELT, Blogging and Collaboration


M is for Mark
June 6, 2015
Education, Education in Finland, 21st Century Educators


Tips for Online Learning
October 30, 2014
How to succeed in online learning-- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/ . Make your own animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation templates help you create animated presentations and animated explainer videos from scratch. Anyone can produce awesome animations quickly with PowToon...


Prepositions of Time
April 21, 2014
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Time Management Tips
April 11, 2014
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