About+the+Author

=** Khalaf Al-Mamari **=

Khalaf Al-Mamari is the Deputy Director of the Unit of Foundation Program at Al-Burimi University College in Sultanate of Oman. He is also an English instructor at the UFB in the college. Previously, he was the Senior English supervisor in the directorate general of education in the Batinah/north region – Ministry of Education – Oman. He taught, oragnised and coordinated summer courses at Sohar University for five years. His research interest is in using technology and software to help learning. His MA research was in using mobile learning technologies in education. He has presented papers at national and international conferences.

= Ahmed El Ashmawwy =

Ahmed was working for ictQATAR during the last three years, but returned last Nov. to Egypt to head and continue his work as General Manager for “Digital Risk Intelligence.” Use the following link to get a feeling of his expertise and background**.** [|**http://qa.linkedin.com/in/aaelashmawy**] He will be presenting MOBILE SAFETY … this is part of the training day, as there is a strategy here in ictQATAR to integrate safety issues in our work, and our awareness outreach events.

=**John Davitt**= John is a writer, broadcaster and a digital toolmaker. He has worked in the education sector for the last twenty-five years as an English teacher, senior manager and regional adviser with the EU Flexible Learning Project. As a journalist he wrote for the UK Guardian, The Times and The Observer, with a regular feature in the Education Guardian. John has worked extensively with teachers in schools in UK, USA, China and Africa and he is committed to levelling the playing field regarding access to new learning opportunities. He is the author of the book “New Tools for Learning” (2006) a practical guide as to how to make the technology fit the learning need, and the WordRoot CD an interactive guides to words and their etymology. He has recently developed The Learning Score a visual tool that lets teachers map out and share learning intentions as a graphical event - rather like a music score. His latest project is the open source [|Learning Event Generator] and the Rag - an interactive learning tool for the iPhone where you can literally shake up a learning challenge. His new book 'Setting Learning Free - The Difference Engine runs again' will be published in spring 2009. 