About+the+Presenter

Jonathan Chambers ESOL Teacher/Co-ordinator  Shanghai American School  Apple Distinguished Educator

Twitter: @jchambers LinkedIn: http://cn.linkedin.com/in/jonathanchambers Facebook: @http://www.facebook.com/chambers.jonathan Email: jonathan.chambers@saschina.org, chambers.jonathan@gmail.com, jonathanchambers@me.com

I've been living and working in China since 1999. I'm passionate about making technology a natural part of the flow of the classroom experience, and I've presented on the topics of eBook production and design, wikis, and GarageBand at Learning 2.0 in Shanghai, and the Beijing Learning Summit.

I'm a qualified teacher tutor for the "ESL in the Mainstream" course. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I've written several hundred songs using GarageBand, and I love to use this tool with my classes. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I edited "Finding Fidel", the winning short film in the Shanghai Short Film Festival in 2006. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">This year I taught myself how to do a 7 camera + soundboard edit in Final Cut Pro to produce a group of 7 students shooting our school musical production of "Bats". <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I've self-published two anthologies of poetry on Lulu.com: 'Plethora' (hard cover/paperback) & 'Awkwood' (eBook) <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I've created mixed media art that has been exhibited at Queensland Customs House in Brisbane, Australia. <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">WEBSITES: <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"The Articulator" - Classroom blog: @http://teachers.saschina.org/jchambers/ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"The 8th Grade Team's Infinite Blog" - Team blog: @http://teachers.saschina.org/pudongteam8/ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">SAS Professional Development Ning (creator/webmaster): @http://saspdn.ning.com <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"Virtual Jonathan": @http://virtualjonathan.blogspot.com/ ... portal to many side projects like Blogic, J-Quote, J-Scape, Always on Culture, Elusive Original, LinguisticFX, Old Paper, and SAMScast. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">My YouTube channel has been open since 2006 and it's nearing half a million views: http://www.youtube.com/jonathanchambers <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">8 ESOL: http://8esol.wikispaces.com/ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">8 Creative Communication: http://8creativecommunication.wikispaces.com/ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">SAS Movie Making: http://sas-moviemaking.wikispaces.com/

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">CONFERENCE WIKIS: <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Hard Copy: Transforming Online Writing http://hardcopy.wikispaces.com/ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Learn GarageBand: http://learngarageband.wikispaces.com/ <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Tech in Language: http://techinlanguage.wikispaces.com