Focus+on+Learning

More and more ESL students have home computers with high-speed internet access. Instructors can take advantage of this fact by giving students exposure to easy-to-use online exercises that support in-class learning. The presenters will show samples from various Web sites teachers can use to create exercises for students to practice many skills: listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation, vocabulary, and spelling.

**1. [|www.eslgamesworld.com] **
 * [|Simple past spelling game]
 * [|Wheel of Fortune Conjunctions]

**2. [|AuthorSTREAM] ** (embedded) media type="custom" key="7140187" media type="custom" key="7037219" (links) [|Participial adjectives] [|Adverbs of frequency] **3. [|Spelling City] **
 * Samples:
 * How-to: [[file:authorstream.pdf]]
 * Samples: [|Beginning Level Clothing], [|VESL Job Application], [|Life Events/Stages]
 * How-to: [|Video tutorials] and YouTube [|Video] [[file:spellingcitydirections.pdf]]

**4. [|PollDaddy] ** Food
 * Samples<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">:

__[|Take Our Survey!]__ Computer Use [|Take Our Survey!]

[] (closed poll)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How-to: [|Support] [[file:Polldaddy.pdf]]

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">5. [|podOmatic] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Samples: [|Listening and Note-taking: Making a Presentation], [|Listen to take a phone message], [|Mock Job Interview Student Video], [|Student "Where in the World" project]


 * How-to: [|Teacher Training Video], [[file:MCCPodcasting.docx]]

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">6. [|Voki] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Samples: media type="custom" key="7082709" [|Michaela's introduction], [|Sample of commenting]
 * How-to: [[file:Make a Voki.doc]]

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">7. [|VoiceThread] ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">media type="custom" key="7082679"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">﻿Samples: [|Student video introduction], [|class]
 * How-to: [|Teacher Training Video], [[file:VoiceThread.pdf]]

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">8. [|MyStudiyo] ** (embedded) media type="custom" key="7037771"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">﻿Samples:

(linked): [|Vocabulary for Job Ads]
 * How-to: [|FAQs] [[file:MyStudiyo.doc]]

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">9. [|ESLVideo] ** (embedded) media type="custom" key="7082723" (links) [|Hero Dog Saves Owner], [|Tipping Etiquette]
 * Samples:
 * How-to: [|How-to video tutorials] [[file:ESLvideo.docx]]

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">﻿Samples: [|Personality Words], [|Life Events], [|VESL Cosmetology], [|VESL Child Development], [|VESL Food Service]
 * How-to: [|Video]