Linda Thalman Director of WebFrance International 3 les Grandes Bruyères 91470 Boullay les Troux, France http://www.wfi.fr/ http://www.parisinsites.com/ Phone: 33 (0) 1 60 12 11 44 in France Email: Linda@wfi.fr

Work Experience

1995 - Present
Director of WebFrance International offering professional web services, located in the Paris region of France.

1985 - 1995
Pedagogical Coordinator and Full-time Teacher, Chevreuse Valley School of English, Bures-sur-Yvette, France. Courses taught included Professional English, General English, English for Children and Teenagers, and English on the Telephone (original course material development). Courses at the C.E.A., Saclay, I.N.S.T.N, Saclay, Ecole Supérieure d'Optométrie.

1980 - 1985
Freelance English Teacher at the Institut et Centre d'Optométrie (Bures-sur-Yvette, France), and also at USA Languages (Paris, France) in 1985.

1978 - 1980
Full-time teacher at the Byrom School of Languages, Manchester, England

1976 - 1978
Employee for the Department of Mental Health, State of Florida, USA

1975 - 1976
Full-time English Teacher in Lüdinghausen, Germany (program sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of German)

1974 - 1975
President of the Graduate Student Council at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA

1973 - 1974
Teaching Assistant, Introductory German, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA

1972 -1973
Assistant Director of the International Education Center at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Professional Presentations 3 December 1999 Internet Basics at the Lycée Jacques Prévert, Longjumeau, France 18 April 1998 How to Promote Your Business on the Internet at the 2nd Annual Career Fair 1998 in Paris 28 March 1998 Comment Intégrer Internet dans L'Enseignement des Langues Etrangères / Using the Internet in Teaching Foreign Languages http://www.volterre-fr.com/compiegne98.html At L'Université de Technologie de Compiegne, "Multimedia et langues etrangères" 20 September 1997 Business, Breakfast and the Internet http://www.volterre-fr.com/businessenglish.html At Learning Curves: Language for Work and Life, sponsored by Longman, Attica and The British Institute in Paris, France 24 -25 April 1997 Flying Blind? The Internet for English Language Teaching, Training and Learning At the Sixth International Aviation English Forum, Paris, France 28 September 1996 Internet: Teaching, Training and Learning At "Don't Just Talk, Communicate! Exploring Language and Communication in ELT" in Paris, France. 24 February 1996, 18 March 1995 and 19 March 1994 Teaching Professional English: Letter Writing, Telephoning & Email At WICE as a Guest Teacher Trainer, Paris, France. 16 February 1996 Promenade guidée sur Internet pour les professionnels At Expolangues/Salon de la Traduction et le l'Interprétation, Paris, France. 2 May 1995 Doing Presentations at Professional Conferences At the Chambre de Commerce, Rambouillet, France, 13 May 1995 Introduction to the Internet At the TESOL-France, Special Interest Group Seminar, Paris, France. 9 - 12 April 1995 Environment and Technology: a Simulation At the IATEFL 29th Annual Conference, 1995, York, UK 25 March 1995 How to Use the Internet: From Newbie to Electronic Godmother At the American University of Paris, France, 10 - 12 January 1995 Internet and TESL-L: Using an Electronic Forum for English Teachers At Multimédia et Enseignement des Langues, Paris, France. Publications Editor of Volterre-Fr English & French Language Resources on the Web since September 1995 Volterre-Fr http://www.volterre-fr.com/ Business English On the Net http://www.volterre-fr.com/bizenglish.html by Linda Thalman, October 1999 Business English for Teachers and Learners 20 September 1997 http://www.volterre-fr.com/businessenglish.html Video Cassettes and the Internet 15 June 1997 http://www.volterre-fr.com/videoweb.html Also published in The Journal, Tesol France, Volume 4, 1997, pages 86 - 94 "Heading for the Internet" in Headway Teacher's Magazine Issue 6, 1996 News From The Net in The News, Tesol France Newsletter Number 13, May 1996 International Robot Activity for Advanced Technical English By Linda Thalman and Ruth Vilmi in Virtual Connections, Mark Warschauer, Editor, 1995   Travel and Leisure Articles By Linda Thalman The travel articles listed on this page were written by Linda Thalman recounting her adventures in France and around the world. Ric Erickson of Metropole Paris has also edited some earlier articles adding his special insights, humor and talent. See: Travel Articles by Linda Thalman for all my stories and reports including 2008 and 2009. http://www.parisinsites.com/travelarticles.html August 2007 Sailing: Brittany - Vannes Morbihan http://www.parisinsites.com/vannes.html July 2007 Sailing: Spain, Gibraltar & Morocco http://www.parisinsites.com/sailingjuly07.html June 2007 Brittany - Finistère France http://www.parisinsites.com/brittany.html April 2007 Tunisia http://www.parisinsites.com/tunisia.html February 2007 Boullay - Lyon by TGV Train http://www.parisinsites.com/lyonfeb2007.html September 2006 Boullay - Collioure - Barcelona Spain - Gan - Cordes sur Ciel - Boullay by Car http://www.parisinsites.com/barcelona.html January 2006 Roanne France http://www.parisinsites.com/roanne.html December 2005 - January 2006 Rome Italy http://www.parisinsites.com/rome.html September 2005 La Corse - Corsica France http://www.parisinsites.com/corsica.html May 2005 Seville - Sevilla, Spain Tapas and Tile Heaven http://www.parisinsites.com/seville.html April 2005 The French Alps http://www.parisinsites.com/frenchalps.html June 2004 Paris - Spain - Morocco http://www.parisinsites.com/morocco-spain-2004.html June 2004 Hyères les Palmiers, France http://www.parisinsites.com/hyeres.html March 2004 Meribel, France From Paris to the Ski Slopes of the 3 Valleys http://www.parisinsites.com/meribel.html February 2004 Eure et Loir Region of France - Maintenon http://www.parisinsites.com/maintenon.html January 2002 Visiting Everything in the 6th and 5th Arrondissements in Paris http://www.parisinsites.com/paris3days/home.html Mission Impossible November 2001 From Paris No Snow to Guzet Neige http://www.parisinsites.com/guzet/home.html In the French Pyrenees September 2001 Personal Thoughts on 11 September 2001 http://www.parisinsites.com/11september2001.html May 2001 From Paris to Arles, France http://www.parisinsites.com/arles/arles-trip.html Vichy, the Cevennes, Arles, the Camargue Travel & Leisure Articles By Linda Thalman Edited by Ric Erickson of Metropole Paris February 2001 Hanging Out In Oman And Not Betting On the Camel Races! October 2000 Destination... Paris France http://www.parisinsites.com/destination.html Originally published in dentevents, October 2000 By Linda Thalman and Ric Erickson March 2000 Music, Rum, Music, Sun, Fun and More Rum http://www.metropoleparis.com/2000/511/511cuba.html From Santiago de Cuba to Havana In Only Three Weeks Also published in: Issue 26, 8 July 2001, Escape From America Magazine http://www.escapeartist.com/efam26/cuba.html October1999 Server-Lady Tours Mid-East http://www.metropoleparis.com/1999/444/444linda.html Declines Beard Trim In Jordon May 1999 Boullay - London - Boullay http://www.metropoleparis.com/1999/421/421tube.html Everything Is Apple Pie In the UK March 1999 1999 Rallye In Paris: http://www.metropoleparis.com/1999/413/413email.html Les 'Intellos' On Parade – A Sunday Spent Looking For Clues November 1998 Nocturnal 'Hyper' Shopping http://www.metropoleparis.com/1998/349/349email.html How Not To Get HYPER While Doing It June 1998 Terror-Struck Topsy-Turvy Report: http://www.metropoleparis.com/1998/325/325sails.html Exciting Sailing Weekend In Brittany May 1998 Who's Afraid of the RER? http://www.metropoleparis.com/1998/320/320rrerr.html I Only Worry About the Ticket Controllers October 1997 Sundown On the Zip Train to Poitiers http://www.metropoleparis.com/1997/71027243/lindatgv.html Time for Wine, None for Sandwiches March 1997 1997 Street Rallye in Paris http://www.metropoleparis.com/1997/70324212/rallye.html Report From the 'Wounded-Knee' Street Rallye in Paris Education Master's Degree Linguistics and Teaching English as a Foreign Language 1975 from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA Bachelor's Degree German and Sociology 1973 from the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA Full-time student at the Universität Bonn, Germany, 1970 - 1972 Languages English: Native language French: Fluent German: Fluent Spanish: Good understanding Dutch, Italian and Arabic: Basic knowledge Awards for Volterre-Fr May 1999 selected as a Links2Go Key Resource in the English Education topic November 1998 selected as Links2Go Key Resource English As a Second Language topic May 1998 Selected among the best sites of the month of May 1998 in .NET – See page 102 for "The Top 50 of the Web" November 1996 Virgil Award May 1996 Magellan Three-Star Award Articles about Volterre-Fr and WebFrance International Volterre-Fr is referenced numerous times in: The Internet Guide For English Language Teachers By Dave Sperling, Prentice Hall Regents, 1997, ISBN 0-13-841073-9 See Linda Thalman's Bibliography http://www.volterre-fr.com/biblio.html ELTAS Journal, Volume 10, Number 3, October 1, 1998 The journal of the English Language Teachers' Association of Stuttgart, Germany published Business English for Teachers and Learners: Business, Breakfast and the Internet http://www.volterre-fr.com/businessenglish.html Wandering the Web By Christine Meloni, in TESOL Matters Vol.7, No.1, February/March 1997 Volterre-Fr was selected by Beatrice's Web Guide "Fab Finds - Education", November 1997 Transatlantic American Online March-April 1997, Number 11 Published by Robert Pickens III, "From the classroom to the Internet to promote France's best" "France gets ready to fête" by Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,s In the Wall Street Journal Europe, 27-28 June 1997, "Small European Firms Tangle With the Web", by Silvia Ascarelli In Newsbytes News Network, 15 August 1996, by Steve Gold, "All About France".

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