Bringing Guests to your Courses with a Virtual Speaker Bureau

Jan 27, 2006
GateWay Community College
Southwest Conference Room / MA2126 & MA2128 computer labs
1:00pm - 3:30pm

Guest Discussants

During the online discussion activities we welcome some virtual guests with experience in being Virtual Speakers.

Guest discussant Conxita Domenech brings a wide-range of expertise and experience as a student, faculty, and translator. She was born in Barcelona, Spain, where she started teaching. For the past nine years she has been teaching bilingual education, French, and Spanish in Colorado.

Conxita started teaching for Denver Public School where she also was a facilitator at New Teacher Network for foreign language teachers with the Denver Public Schools. For the last six years, she has been teaching at Community College of Aurora, University of Colorado at Denver, Metropolitan State College, University of Denver, CCCOnline, Community College of Denver, and Front Range Community College. She has been also teaching and translating in different private companies, among them are StorageTech, Sun Microsystems, McData, The City of Westminster, Leprino Foods, and Mortenson.

She received her Master's Degree from Universitat AutÚnoma in Barcelona, and a Bachelor's Degree from the same university, majoring in anthropology, but she took several other classes after finishing her degree: Spanish literature, history, and French. During the last year of her Master's Degree she won a scholarship to study in England and she lived there for two years. After England, Conxita spent two years traveling around Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, and America, working in different kinds of jobs, in order to improve my expertise in anthropology.

Her hobbies are traveling, reading, and learning foreign languages.

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Jo Tomalin is a freelance director, actor and teacher.

I have been working in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1986. Before that, I spent three years in Paris, France, for Post Graduate work studying physical acting, improvisation, movement analysis and Commedia Dell'Arte mask work with the world renowned Master, Jacques Lecoq. Currently I am Associate Professor at San Francisco State University's Theatre Arts Department where I teach performance classes.

One of my main interests is movement and my undergraduate work was at London University, Goldsmith's College where I studied Rudolf Laban movement analysis and Notation as well as Martha Graham dance technique. Since then, I have directed specialized movement pieces within plays. The shows I direct are mainly original works, often one person shows that have been performed in Japan, Taiwan, Germany, The Edinburgh Festival in Britain as well as San Francisco.

A few years ago I went to Bali, Indonesia to work with a mask maker for a month carving a wooden mask and learning Balinese mask theatre and Movement. My Classical acting training was from the Trinity College of Music and Dramatic Art and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, both in London. I have performed in several plays in the San Francisco area as well as at the San Francisco New Vaudeville Festival. One year I went on the Chautauqua Tour of Vancouver and NW States where I performed my solo act as part of the show in 15 cities.

Currently I teach such subjects as Acting; Storytelling; Voice for Actors; Movement; Improvisation and Theatre Imagination at San Francisco State University and U.C. Berkeley Extension. My Voice for Actors classes are based on the techniques of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenberg. In between all of this, I spent a few years in Caracas, Venezuela teaching English while studying modern dance. I love learning languages and speak Spanish, French + even some Portuguese after a semester in Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. I was honored to have been invited June '97 by a professional Opera training program in England, 'Opera Experience' to give a Master Class on Storytelling, Character and Stage Presence. July 2000 I gave a Storytelling + Physical Theatre Workshop for the Great Lakes Regional Puppetry Festival at the University of Madison WI.2002 I gave a movement workshop at the West Coast PuppetFest in Asilomar, CA.

In 2003 I directed two plays:'The Trojan Women' which was a mainstage production at SFSU and 'Letters to Anna' for the Marin Fringe Festival. In 2004 I gave a storytelling workshop at the University of Connecticut and in 2005 I presented at the Puppeteers of America National Festival at Concordia University, St. Paul, MN.

I'm a contributing author of a new book published in 2006 'Puppetry in Education and Therapy: Unlocking doors to the Mind and Heart' published by Author House. My chapter is called 'Puppetry in Cyberspace: The Use of Technologyin the Performing Arts and Education'.

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