OTAN+Technology+and+Distance+Learning+Symposium+2011

Kristi Reyes, MiraCosta College Noncredit ESL Department, kreyes@miracosta.edu
 * Extend Learning Beyond the Classroom - Web-based Activities **

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 (see http://www.otan.us/otac/ ), 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 four free sites -- Spelling City, MyStudiyo, ESL Video, and VoiceThread -- to create online exercises for students to practice listening, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, reading, and pronunciation. 

**Download the handout with directions for the first three sites (scroll down for VoiceThread directions): **

**1. [|Spelling City]** Samples: [|Beginning Level Clothing], [|VESL Job Application], [|Life Events/Stages] How-to: [|Video tutorials] and YouTube [|Video] [|spellingcitydirections.pdf]

Samples: (embedded) Sumo Wrestling media type="custom" key="8436912" (links) [|Hero Dog Saves Owner], [|Tipping Etiquette] How-to: [|How-to video tutorials] [|ESLvideo.docx]
 * 2. [|ESLVideo]**

﻿Samples: [|restaurant_vocabulary] media type="custom" key="8436812"
 * 3.** [|**MyStudiyo**] (Now called [|QuizRevolution])

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

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

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

Video for demo for ESL Video: [|How to Choose a Baby Name] Vidoes for demo for MyStudyio: Practice commenting on this VoiceThread: []
 * [|What to do when there is a medical emergency]
 * [|What to do in the case of a heart attack]
 * [|What to do if someone is bleeding]
 * [|... choking]