I currently work in the area of professional development for languages teachers. I have a degree in French and am a qualified secondary school teacher. It took a Master's in teaching languages with technology and have worked on a number of e-learning projects over the last ten years including the development of the LOC tool (http://loc.llas.ac.uk) and the HumBox respository for the Humanities (www.humbox.ac.uk). I have directed several European funded projects in the field of languages including the Language Cafe Project (www.languagecafe.eu) which was awarded a EU prize for social inclusion in languages in 2009.