AVEALMEC (Asociación Venezolana para la Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Lenguas Mediados por el Computador) is an educational association  which started as an idea  on March 14th 2007 in a national forum entitled "What's next? The Future of English in Venezuela" at the British Council . During the concluding session, a group of teachers from different universities agreed on setting this association up (You can download the summary of this ELT forum in the 579message  in VENELT).  

We became a legal association on August 6^th, 2007 when we received the constitution  document at the registrar. 

We are 13 founding members and we expect to have new active members after the November event, the Web 2.0 for ELT:Podcasts, Blogs, Wikis, Virtual Worlds and Digital Games. This event will be an opportunity to promote the association among the seminar participants who in turn, we hope, will spread the words on the benefits teachers can get out of the association.

AVEALMEC board members are: 

President: Teadira Pérez  (ULA) .

Acting member: Dafne González (USB)

Vice president: Liliana Buitrago (UNEFM).

Acting member: Nahir Aparicio (UPEL-Caracas)

Secretary: Miguel Mendoza (UCV-British Council).

Acting member: Evelyn Izquierdo (UCV) 

Treasurer: Víctor Ojeda (Colegio Emil Friedman).

Acting member: Benicio Galavís (CUFM)

Vocal member: Yuraimig Rivero (UPEL-Maturin).

Acting member: Elvina Castillo (UNEFM)

So far the number of AVEALMEC members is 29. 

The main objective of the association is to promote the integration of ICT in the language classroom and educational curricula. We also aim at promoting the use, pedagogical practice and design of ICT/CALL materials in ELT.

Working together and having the support of the British Council have made the setting up of the association smooth. There's still a long way to go but its current members are working hard to turn AVEALMEC into a leading association in the promotion of ICT in ELT in Venezuela.

http://avealmec.pbwiki.com