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Opening Night Panel + Q and A Session #1170

Dr. Endicott’s areas of specialization include all aspects of Japanese and Korean studies, Asian security studies, with special emphasis on the Korean Peninsula, American defense policy, and professional military education. His published books include Japan’s Nuclear Option (Author), The Politics of East Asia (Co-author), American Defense Policy (Co-Editor and Contributor), and Regional Security Issues (Co-author). A book on American foreign policy written by Endicott and two colleagues, U.S. Foreign Policy: History, Process, and Policy, was published in 2005. Most recently, December of 2019 he completed and published his memoirs under the title Destined to Serve. He received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in cooperation with Harvard University.

I have an MA in linguistics and I've been teaching in the field of language and linguistics for over a decade. I've taught at universities in Jamaica, at a high school in France, and at every level in Japan, from kindergarten to university, teaching currently at a Japanese university. I enjoy public speaking and I regularly use presentation software in my classroom activities in fun and innovative ways. I've honed my presentation software skills over the years, and most recently, I've found myself doing a lot of workshops and presentations with JALT and KOTESOL on presentation design. Since the COVID pandemic, I've had a number of my former presentation and workshop attendees reach out to me for ideas and guidance on creating activities for their online lessons. It encouraged me to start a presentation design service for persons who are interested in having personalised lessons based on their specific needs.

I am a masters student at Korea University for Applied Linguistics, as of March 2021. I was an English teacher at an all-girls high school in Hongcheon, Gangwon-do for one year through the English Program in Korea (EPIK), as well as taught at Daejeon University for their winter program for one month.

Stafford Lumsden was a winner of the 2020 Australian Financial Review Higher Education Award for Learning Experience, He is an Assoc. Fellow of the Wollongong Academy for Tertiary Teaching & Learning Excellence (WATTLE) and a Senior Fellow of the TESOL Media Lab. His research interests include the ongoing development of the Community of Inquiry Framework as a tool for online course design and evaluation and the use of semiotic resources in online learning environments for training English Language Teachers. Stafford has 15+ years experience in the education sector as an EFL teacher, TESOL Trainer, and Educational designer. Currently, he is a Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) & Education Specialist in the Learning Teaching and Curriculum Unit at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. He holds an MA TESOL from Victoria University, Wellington, and a Master of Research from Macquarie University. Ask him at next year's conference if he has finished his PhD!