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Smartt
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Developed or Recommended Sites
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Resources
PowerPoint
as an ESL/ESOL Writing and Speaking Tool
Excel
PC
Security & Annoyances
(Safe Computing Practices) (PDF document)
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Smartt
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Resources from Teachers in the West
- Learning
Links collected by Sharon Feeney, teacher at the Ware Literacy
Project Site. Lots of good stuff here, and very well organized. http://www.literacyproject.org/WAEC/links.html
- Project
curriculum created by Thelma Margulies and Carole Blair of the Northern
Berkshire Adult Basic Education Program Distance Learning Project.
The “Great American Road Trip” can be found at http://www.abeged.com/distance/2004vvs/vvs_main.html.
Combining reading, writing and web research along with TV411 online
and print resources, this is a comprehensive learning project for
adult learners. And, the TV411 website (http://www.tv411.org/index.shtml)
also provides some good practical exercises in basic skills. Both
are definitely worth checking out.
- Lynne
Weintraub, ESL Coordinator at the Jones Library in Amherst, maintains
a web resources collection on the Jones Library's ESL Center
page. It features free self-access web links for ESOL students. Most
of them use audio and/or video: http://www.joneslibrary.org/esl/adult.html.
Lynne also maintains a website for citizenship educators: http://www.citizenshipnews.com.
It has the latest news on the naturalization process (including USCIS's
efforts to create a new standardized test), lots of information and
links for people who need specifics on various aspects of citizenship
and citizenship preparation.
Online
Resources
- Capturing
Wisdom (Video tapes 1 & 2, and CD ROM) highlighting projects
that teachers have done with adult learners that creatively uses technology.
Online at: http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/cw/history/start.htm
- Harnessing
Technology to Serve Adult Literacy—This project collects
and posts on their website technology solutions to learning problems.
- Interesting
Things for ESL/EFL Students.
http://www.manythings.org/
Free and fun English language study. There are quizzes, word games,
word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence
generator and other computer assisted language learning activities.
Even though the primary focus is for ESL, native English speakers
may also find some interesting things on this site. This site is non-commercial
and has no advertising.
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Lincs
site: http://www.literacynet.org/esl/
for good ESL resources for students, teachers, tutors and administrators.
- America's
Literacy Directory (ALD). http://www.literacydirectory.org
A national directory of literacy service providers available via the
Internet and the National Institute for Literacy's toll-free number.
The ALD connects employers, learners, volunteers, social service agencies,
and others to current information about literacy service providers
in all 50 states and the U.S. territories.
- NIFL-Technology
listserv.
(If you’d like to subscribe yourself, go to: http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-technology/subscribe_nifl-technology.html)
- Adult
Literacy and Technology Network/Technology Training—Finding
a large list of curricula in one place can be overwhelming or a godsend
for the time strapped teacher. But, this collection appears to be
worth the effort to sift through.
- Websequitur
and WebRhubarb are applications of Creative Technologies
TexToys. These applications allow teachers to break short stories
up into phrases that students then choose to put the story back together.
They can be downloaded and used for free as shareware with certain
limits.
Info page: http://www.cict.co.uk/software/textoys/
Examples:
http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/websequiturs/
http://digilander.libero.it/Cyberteacher/esercizi_eng.htm
PowerPoint
as an ESL/ESOL Writing & Speaking Tool
The following
is from a workshop designed to show teachers how PowerPoint can be used
to help their students practice writing and speaking English, all while
becoming more familiar with computers. If you were unable to attend
this workshop, you might find the following tutorial, examples and instructions
helpful.
1) Your students can access a PowerPoint tutorial developed by an Illinois
ESL teacher. The tutorial is written in very simple language and walks
students through the steps to using PowerPoint to create a 10-slide
assignment. See at: http://www.leyden212.org/DEPART/esl/ppt_esl_files/frame.htm.
2) Wonderful examples of presentations created by ESL students at San
Mateo Adult and Community Education center. 3-slide biographies and
more slides on a topic of interest. Include audible narration. Download
at: http://www.smace.org/cwagner/Classes/powerpoint.html
Use Windows
“Sound Recorder” to incorporate your student’s voice
into their PowerPoint presentation.
1) Connect an inexpensive microphone to the computer.
2) Click on Start-->Programs-->Accessories-->Multimedia (or
Entertainment) and select “Sound Recorder”
3) Click on record, and have the student speak clearly and describe
the content of each slide.
4) Stop recording.
5) Save the file as a .wav file using a name that will be easy to identify.
(e.g. slide1.wav or hobbies.wav)
6) In PowerPoint, insert the .wav file on the appropriate slide. (Insert-->Movies
and Sounds-->"Sound from file" and navigate to the folder
containing the .wav file.)
7) When viewing the slide show, click on the speaker that appears on
the slide, and the student’s narration will be heard if you have
speakers or headphones attached to the computer.
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