Paul Beaufait is an expatriate language educator and the ICT Coordinator for the Japan Association for Language Teachers (JALT) Writers' Peer Support Group and the PIGATE Ó¢ÕZÊÚ˜IÑо¿»á (_eigo jugyou kenkyuukai_, a grassroots teacher development action research group). His career in language education has spanned three decades, and focused largely on blending face-to-face and online language learning opportunities and promoting language teacher development. He holds a Master's degree in French and a certificate of accomplishment in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Montana, as well as a certificate in Technology-Based Distributed Learning from the University of British...