Case Study 2.3: Digital storytelling in Argentina
Vicky Saumell is co-ordinator of the EFL Department at Instituto San Francisco de
Asís, a private school in Buenos Aires, Argentina that has 800 students at all levels,
from kindergarten to secondary. Although private, the school is mostly funded by
the state (to keep the fees low) and the students have three hours of English a week.
She has worked there for 20 years and has been using learning technology with
learners and teachers for six years, first becoming interested through the Webheads
in Action community of practice (http://webheadsinaction.org). Since then, she has
developed from using ICT in her own classes to helping other teachers integrate
technology into their classroom practice, training other teachers as well as being
tutor of the module New Learning Environments for the Master’s in ELT at Universidad
de La Sabana, Colombia, where she has been teaching online since 2009. Vicky is
also a materials writer, teacher trainer and is passionate about sharing her classroom
practice with other teachers in Argentina and around the world, presenting at local,
national and international conferences, as well as online events.