Siva Pillai

( Kanapathipillai Sivagurunathapillai)

Siva is a Computer officer in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths College University of London

ICT lecturer at South College London.

Director of Community School, Lewisham based Tamil Academy of Language and Arts (TALA).

Chief Examiner for Edexcel London Examination Board for Tamil Language

Principal Examiner for Cambridge ASSET-Examination Tamil Language

Regularly speaks at international conferences aimed at raising awareness of new opportunities created by ICT. Considerable experience in creating multimedia resources including distance learning via the Internet for teaching of Tamil. Presentation will include samples from an information sheet on 'Creating resources with PowerPoint' commissioned by BECTA, which is available on the BECTA web site. . Consultant for Tamil language ICT development at becta. Running ICT workshop and presentation with CILT-National Centre for Languages London

Introducing Interactive White Board (IWB) technology for language teaching

Tamil curriculum document development to fit into the UK National Curriculum - Nuffield Project 2003-2006

Chief Examiner: Edxcel London Tamil Language

ASSET-Cambridge: Principal Examiner for Tamil Language.

Released CARE CD Computer Assisted Religious Education English-Tamil-French-German)

Released CALL CD Computer Assisted Language Learning (English - Tamil)

Released "Daily Readings " by Swami Satchidanantha on a CD 1999

Published bilingual books.

Developed WEB-site language learning techniques.

Interpreter and Translator

Bilingual Books Tamil-English: Mantra publication