CATESOL+2011

// ** San Diego Regional CATESOL Conference, October 2011 ** //

Student Video: Innovative Projects for Skills Integration
presented by Jose Lopez-Mercedes, Eli Clarke, and Kristi Reyes // **﻿** //

Innovative Take on Using Narratives for Development of All Skills
presented by Kristi Reyes

// ** Annual Conference, April 2011 ** // __ ** Extend Learning Beyond the Classroom ** __

All adult students need 21st Century skills, which include computer competence, for employment, family, and citizenship goals, and, according to surveys conducted by OTAN from 2006 to 2010, more and more ESL students have home computers with as many as 70 to 80 percent of higher-level adult ESL students reporting having internet access. Thus, instructors can make available to students the chance to extend their language development outside the classroom at their own convenience, in their homes, school computer labs, and libraries, while increasing their computer skills at the same time. The presenter will lead workshop attendees in learning through demonstration how to use thee free sites -- Spelling City, ESL Video, and VoiceThread -- to create online exercises for students to practice listening, speaking, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and pronunciation.



__ Source: @http://www.otan.us/otac/ __

**__1.__ [|Spelling City]** __Samples:__ [|Beginning Level Clothing]__,__ [|VESL Job Application]__,__ [|Life Events/Stages] __How-to:__ [|Video tutorials] __and YouTube__ [|Video] [|spellingcitydirections.pdf]

Samples: media type="custom" key="8938876" [|Hero Dog Saves Owner]__,__ [|Tipping Etiquette]__How-to:__ [|How-to video tutorials] [|ESLvideo.docx] For demo: [|What to do in a medical emergency] and thumbnail for video
 * __2.__ [|ESLVideo]**

3. [|VoiceThread] media type="custom" key="7082679" media type="custom" key="8436810"
 * Samples: [|Pronunciation Practice and Quiz]

[|Student video introduction], [|class]
 * How-to: [|Teacher Training Video], [[file:VoiceThread.pdf]]

=Demo: AuthorStream and Scribd=