Martina Emke coordinates the academic staff development programme for Netzwerk hdw nrw, an association of twenty universities of applied sciences in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. She holds a doctorate in education from the Open University (UK). For the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) Martina has worked as teacher educator, project co-coordinator and materials developer in several projects. She is also the co-editor of the Castledown book series Developing Online Language Pedagogies. Martina’s research interests include language teacher professional development, posthuman education, networked learning and the use of social media in language teaching and learning.