Designer, filmmaker, musician, writer, teacher, thinker, and social media maniac, Tim Samoff lives in Southern California.
Valerie Senior is one of the application/faculty training specialists at the Saddleback College Faculty Center for Instructional Design & Distance Education. The CIDDE provides instruction, advisement, analysis, professional development, and support of faculty in the areas of online course management and technology.
Ioan Elvis Sersea, M.A., M.A.T., has learned English as a third language and has been teaching English learners with the use of technology for decades. He has completed two graduate degrees fully online, and has taught online students at the middle school, high school, community college, and university levels. In addition to his passion for teaching, Elvis has been the founder and webmaster of numerous educational websites and communities, with the goal to redefine the Internet from a gateway to entertainment, to "the" gateway to personal and social transformation through learning and collaboration. He has singlehandedly created and maintained a variety of edusocial communities on Facebook numbering more than 700,000 followers. His English Online Academy is one of the world's largest edusocial networks for international English learners, with over 200,000 followers. Recently, Ioan Elvis Sersea was among the 10 Facebook users who won the 2012 Facebook Small Business Boost by showing the largest growth in membership between February and April, 2012. The awarded $10,000 in free Facebook advertising means that he will likely surpass well over a million followers for his numerous edusocial community pages on Facebook and beyond.