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Pooja Mittal Biswas is the author of nine books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, with her ninth book, a collection of poetry, due to be released by Cordite Books in 2022. She has been reviewed and interviewed in The Age, The Australian and ABC Radio National’s The Book Show, and has been anthologised in both The Best Australian Poems and The Best Australian Poetry. Pooja has written for Writer’s Digest and has been widely published in literary journals such as Meanjin, Cordite, TEXT, Hecate and Jacket. Pooja is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Sydney, where she was awarded the Stanley Sinclair Bequest Scholarship for poetry. She is a sessional academic teaching Creative Writing at both the University of Sydney and Western Sydney University, and she also teaches several courses of her own design at Writing NSW, Writers Victoria and the University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education. She has been invited to speak at literary festivals such as the Emerging Writers’ Festival and the National Young Writers’ Festival. While still living in New Zealand, she was selected as the country's national representative for UNESCO’s Babele Poetica project.

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Daniel Bittoun has a BA in French language and literature and an MA in Applied Linguistics. He is also an Australian Film & Television School postgraduate (AFTV). Daniel has extensive French language teaching experience having taught at numerous schools, colleges in the Middle East, UK and NSW and universities such as UNSW, UTS and New England. He has developed several distance education and e-learning courses for the Department of Education, Tafe and Open Learning.

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Sam Bizri is an award-winning eLearning Designer, Lecturer, EDUpreneur.

Experienced lecturer and educational designer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry in the areas of online teaching and learning. Skilled EDUpreneur with good track record in assisting StartUps and training organisations with online education strategies and implementation.

Sam is certified in many learning management systems and has won the Catalyst eLearining Award at the Global Blackboard Conference in 2014.

Sam’s current interest is in the areas of new disruptive technologies such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and the effect/possibilities they may bring to the field of future teaching and learning. He has been teaching eCommerce, Digital Marketing, eLearning for more than ten years.

Sam graduated with a degree in adult education (UTS), masters in Business and Technology (UNSW) and Masters in eLearning (UTS). He is a strong believer of lifelong learning.

Catalyst Award Winner and Certified Trainer.

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Richard is a Latin Teacher at the Scots School College, Bellevue Hill Sydney and was formerly the Senior Latin and Ancient History Master at TSC.

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Hayden Blain. Tutor of CCE

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Paul Blayney is a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney, specialising in management accounting. His research and teaching interests are in the area of computer assisted education. In this regard he has developed a computerised assignment-marking system that has been used in various courses in the accounting discipline for more than 10 years. Paul is currently enrolled as a PhD student in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales.

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Annie is an experienced trainer and facilitator who has worked in the HIV/AIDS and alcohol and other drugs sector since 1990. Annie is a dynamic and engaging trainer and facilitator. Annie’s unique skill is her ability to connect with and engage audiences from different countries, cultures and demographics. She has taught and facilitated workshops on a variety of alcohol and drugs and social issues all over Australia and in places as diverse as Indonesia, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Turkey and the Netherlands.

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Jinping holds Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Teaching, and has many years of experience teaching Chinese. In addition to teaching at the Centre for Continuing Education, Jinping currently teaches Chinese, Korean, French, and Italian at Homebush Boys High School. Before this time, she taught all levels of Chinese and ESL in three private schools and three public schools. Jinping is passionate about teaching languages and enthusiastic in sharing her Chinese knowledge with her students.

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Honours: B.A. HON1 Latin, HON11 Greek, French 111 Credit, University of Sydney

Since graduating, Erna has taught English, Latin, French and Communication from primary school to university level. She initiated Latin classes at the Centre for Continuing Education in 1995 and has taught there ever since. In her present class, Reading For Pleasure, participants study a wide range of Latin authors, analysing their language and literary skills. These authors are chosen in consultation with participants.

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I completed my Bachelor of Arts in History, Bachelor of Education in Indigenous Education, and teaching certification at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. I worked as a secondary school teacher for five years before becoming an Education Officer at the Sydney Jewish Museum in 2012 where I develop and deliver high quality education to school students, university students, professionals and Museum volunteers. I think it is important to not only teach history with integrity, but also to humanise history through personal testimony, especially when dealing with the events of the Holocaust.