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As website editor my first task was to build the new website for the LTSIG and start up
the blog. The blog is a platform for teachers around the world to submit guest articles
about teaching with educational technology, as well as a space for informing both LTSIG
members and the public at large about upcoming conferences, events, LTSIG initiatives
and collaborations. We blend conferences on the ground with online reporting - the
website and blog are the medium through which we offer scholarships for roving
reporters, speakers and other opportunities to the wider teaching community.

Apart from building and managing the website and blog, I published newsletters in the
absence of our usual newsletter editor, designed promotional posters for the blog, and
worked behind the scenes with choosing conference speakers and winners for our
scholarships. This all occurred in close liaison with other members of the committee in
general. Nothing can be published without a clear channel of communication between
all members of the committee, from event organisers to social media managers. I
communicated most closely with my content team, newsletter editor, co-ordinator and,
to seamlessly get our message out across significant channels, with our social media
manager.

What has been your experience of being on the committee ?

Educational, challenging and fascinating.

Having worked as a freelance teacher for most of my career, I was quite used to
managing my own work and developing my own special interests. Once I started
working online as a teacher and educational blogger, I began inadvertently to reach out

to wider teaching audiences, as part of my online presence.

The opportunity to join the LTSIG team, however, introduced me to a new environment
where collaboration had to be much tighter, protocol made me part of something much
bigger than my own online presence, and my talks moved from webinars and MOOCs
to conferences on the ground.

Going back to my home country as plenary speaker for the LTSIG at the ELT Ireland
conference in 2014 encapsulated the experience of challenge and reward, mixed with
the nostalgia of coming home to speak to Irish colleagues after so many years working
in Greece.

Why have you now decided to not stand again?

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