ESLResources

ESL/ELL/Bilingual Resources - Training 10/15/2009
JoelAdkins

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 * School House Rock Video on Verbs**

[|FUNdamentals of learning]

Your Letters to Me - requests for what you want to be trained on.


 * What is this place????**

Rosetta Stone Manager, weekend update, and student access. District Resources online

[|Vocabulary Assessment] - Made with Quizlet Flash Card Exchange is great too.


 * Web 2.0 Tools U MUST HAVE!!**

[|Delicious] - social bookmarking (Joel is at []) Document Sharing - [|Google Documents] Voicethread- Digital Storytelling Interactive Space: [|Imagination Cubed] iTunes - Apps for educators?

Google - Tools - ALL OF THEM

Google Earth GE site for Educators Discussion Thread of teachers sharing how they use GE in classrooms Juicy Geography

Google Translate

[|Atomic Learning] YouTube TeacherTube SchoolTube TED Talks - iTunes Fora TV
 * Online Training Resources: **

Alvin Toffler: "The illiterate of the 21st century are not the ones who cannot read or write; they are the ones who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."

Connecting to Professional Learning Networks
[|E-Pals] - connecting teacher & student webpages and projects

[|Twitter] - search phrases: #ESL, #EFL, #businessenglish, #teachertuesday, #esl, #efl #businessenglish #teachertuesday [|What is Twitter?] [|Why do people use it?]

[|27 Ways to Practice Spelling with Style] [|Teaching English using Web 2.0]
 * Blogs**

Sozo Exchange - YouTube Channel SlideShare - these aren't videos!
 * Other Videos Sites:**

NING [|ESL Networks] [|Bilingual Networks] Edmodo
 * Social Networking Tools**

**Tools**
iLanguage OneWord

[|Ourstory.com] [|Time Toast] [|Kerpoof.com] [|FanFiction] [|Creaza.com] [|Primary Access]
 * Story Telling:**

Document Cameras 

[|Word Mapping] - Tools: [|MyWebSpiration.com]. I recommend [|Bubbl.us] or [|Gliffy.com] [|Wordle] - Create word clouds
 * Projects:**


 * Visual Search Tools**

[|Clusty] and [|Clusty Clouds] [|Exalead] - thumbnails of sites [|Spezify]

**Digital Storytelling with Images & Video**
1. Computer 2. Digital camera for still pictures (recommend a camera that plugs in with USB) 3. Digital camera for video (recommend the FLIP camera) 4. Video editing software (comes with the Flip) or use free online editor 5. Audio editing software - Audacity is free, easy and does complex editing 6. Scanner
 * Materials for creating Digital Stories**:

[|Voicethreads by Elementary and Middle School students] [|Voicethreads by Juniors and Seniors] [|Digital Stories] [|Scott County Schools] [|Fourth Grade Art Class] [|Briscoe Texas Heroes] [|1001 Flat World Tales] [|Special Education Teachers] [|Common Craft] [|ICan] [|WHS Vietnam Memorial Project]
 * Digital Storytelling - what it looks like**

[|DigiTales] [|Digital Storytelling Cookbook] [|The Digital Narrative] [|Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling] *CogDogRoo [|Tech Head Stories]
 * Online resources for LEARNING about Digital Stories:**

[|MyStoryMaker] [|Primary Access] Windows to the Universe [|Kerpoof] [|BubbleShare] [|Blabberize] [|Scrapblog] [|Mixbook] [|VoiceThread] [|Soungle] Animoto Glogster
 * Online resources for CREATING Digital Stories:**

[|Microsoft Photostory 3] - software download that is FREE and easy to use [|Online training for Photostory]

[|Center for Digital Storytelling] [|We Tell Stories] [|Flickr] and example of  [|Flickr Math story] [|International Children's Digital Library] [|Hippocampus]
 * Online resources for WATCHING Digital Stories:**

Augmented Reality

Pics4Learning – [|www.pics4learning.com] PDPhoto.org – [|pdphoto.org] Flickr – [|flickr.com] Creative Commons – [|creativecommons.org]
 * Digital Image Libraries**

Bubble Share – [|bubbleshare.com] Picnik – [|picnik.com] Voicethread – [|voicethread.com]
 * Digital Image Tools**

Pixton – [|pixton.com] Kerpoof – [|kerpoof.com] Toondo – toondoo.com
 * Comics**

Brain Pop, Brain Pop Jr., Brain Pop Español – [|brainpop.com] Internet Archive – [|archive.org/details/movies] English Trailers – [|english-trailers.com]
 * Digital Video**

Storynory – [|storynory.com] Archie Comics – [|archiecomics.com/podcasts]
 * Audio Podcasts with Text**

Voice of America – Special English – [|voanews.com/specialenglish/index.cfm] Breaking News English – [|breakingnewsenglish.com]
 * News and Current Events Podcasts**

Project Gutenberg – [|gutenberg.org] LibriVox – [|librivox.org] Lit 2 Go – [|etc.usf.edu/lit2go] Oxford University Press - @http://www.oup.com/elt/students/?cc=global
 * Literature with Audio Support**

Puma Rosa – [|pumarosa.com] ELLLO – [|elllo.org] Mango Languages – [|mangolanguages.com] UGoEigo – [|ugoeigo.com]
 * Language Learning**

__**Book Publishing**__ Lulu – [|lulu.com]

Nettrekker – [|www.nettrekker.com]
 * Research site with ESL/ELL Support**

British Council Learn English[| – britishcouncil.org/learnenglish] PBS Kids – [|pbswikds.org] RIF Leading to Read – [|rif.org/leadingtoreading] BBC School – [|bbc.co.uk/schools]
 * ESL/ELL Sites for Kids w/ minimal ads**

MES-English – [|mes-english.com] BBC Teaching English[| – www.teachingenglish.org.uk/index.shtml] Colorin Colorado[| – colorincolorado.org] Teacher Tube[| – www.teachertube.com] 4teachers.org (Rubistar, PBL Checklst, Casa Notes) -[| rubistar.4teachers.org] Personal Educational Press – [|www.educationalpress.org]/ How to Type Accents on a Computer – []
 * ESL/ELL Teacher Tools**

Starfall -[| www.starfall.com] Lookybook – [|lookybook.com] Reading A-Z, Raz-Kids $ -[| www.learninga-z.com] Bookpop -[| bookpop.com] Maggie Tales – [|maggietales.com]
 * Reading Sites with ESL/ELL Support**

English Zone – [|english-zone.com] A 4 ESL – [|a4esl.org] ESL Lab – [|esl-lab.com] Many Things – [|manythings.org]
 * ESL/ELL Activity sites**

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 * Video presentation by Arturo Guajardo - Austin ISD at ISTE convention**