Simple Ways to Use Technology in Instruction Barry Bakin ESL Intermediate Low Teacher
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Simple Ways to Use Technology in Instruction Barry Bakin ESL Intermediate Low Teacher Pacoima Skills Center and ESL Coordinator South Gate Community Adult School Division of Adult and Career Education Los Angeles Unified School District [email protected] www.tech4esl.blogspot.com
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Simple Ways
to Use Technology in Instruction
Barry Bakin
ESL Intermediate Low Teacher
Pacoima Skills Center
and ESL Coordinator
South Gate Community Adult School
Division of Adult and Career Education
Los Angeles Unified School District
www.tech4esl.blogspot.com
InternetEMAIL
BLOGS
PODCASTs
WIKIS
FUN WEBSITES FOR LANGUAGE PRACTICE
Non-InternetPUBLISHER SOFTWARE
COMMONLY USED SOFTWARE
OVERHEAD PROJECTOR and DOCUMENT CAMERA
Open lines of communication
Give Assignments
Direct Students to Web-based Resources
Strong Reading and Writing Practice
BLOGS AND WIKIS
Give Assignments
Work with Images
Direct Students to Web-based Resources
Strong Reading and Writing Practice
Strong Listening Practice
FUN WEBSITES FOR ENGLISH PRACTICE
Easy to use
Free
The website has done most of the work already, all you have to do is show students how to use the tools
WAYS TO USE COMMON OFFICE TYPE PROGRAMS FOR ENGLISH
PRACTICE
Examples
And
Screenshots
Open lines of communication
Give Assignments
Direct Students to Web-based Resources
Strong Reading and Writing Practice
Communication…
Assignments… Clickable links in message send students to websites
BLOGS and WIKIS
Give Assignments
Work with Images
Direct Students to Web-based Resources
Strong Reading and Writing Practice
Strong Listening Practice
Students get their daily lessons in class or from home.
Give assignments
Work with images or Video clips
Direct Students to Web-based Resources
Page 91 All-Star McGraw-Hill
Common reading selection in a textbook can be supplemented with real examples or given historical background.
Strong Listening Practice
http://mrbakinsesl.pbworks.com/
Use the free opensource software Audacity to record mp3 files easily…
WYSIWYG editing interface
Students can create the content! And work collaboratively…
http://coasttocoast.pbwiki.com
FUN WEBSITES FOR ENGLISH PRACTICE
Easy to use
Free
The website has done most of the work already, all you have to do is show students how to use the tools
Internet-Based Comic Strips using http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
www.makebeliefscomix.com
Devolver/DFILM• http://www.dfilm.com• Students make animated films with their own dialogues...
http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-472027
Internet-Based Animated Movies using Bombay TV http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php
Grammar Practice www.roadtogrammar.com
Spelling and VocabularyPractice www.spellingcity.com
Non-Internet
Publisher provided CDs-related to the textbook you’re using
-engaging even without the textbook
Projects using Word, Excel, PowerPoint or similar programs
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Wow, our grandfather was
really a handsome man!
I will never wear that
kind of clothes.
I enjoy displaying my pictures of my trip to Paris.
Mom is always speaking about the same thing.
AURELIA MORENOJanuary 13, 2010
Eating is good for your
development.Come on honey, eat your veggies!
I’ll eat them by myself, but later mom!
Why don’t you eat them? You haven’t eaten
any vegetables!
Elena LopezJanuary 21, 2009
How to learn English
Use English
Go to the school
Do the Homework
Read the Text book
Participate in class
Practice the new vocabulary
Go all week
Write in English
Listen to English
Read in English
Speak in English
Write the new words in the not book
Memorize the verbs
Do the lessons
Pay attention
Practice on the computer
Talk to teacher
Look in the dictionary
Listen to the songs
See all kinds of showsIn English
Send text messagesonly in English
Books, newspaper, magazine, etc.
Speak with my friends
Practice with my classmates
Ask my teacher questions
Rosalba Barragan. April 2010
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WORK
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MILITARYSERVICES
Irma Gonzalez
ESL Intermediate Low, Pacoima Skills Center, Mr. Bakin, April 2010
The future is now! Others are pioneering with mobile technologies and delivering instruction to cell phones and other devices… (not me yet!)
I hope you’ve been inspired to start experimenting with web-based instruction! Key URLs to remember:http://webtwopointohinadulted.wikispaces.com/ A compendium listing most of the types of resources I’ve discussed. It’s a wiki itself!
http://mrbakinsesl.pbworks.com/ My class wikihttp://coasttocoast.pbworks.com The collaboration wiki project (with Vermont)http://pbworks.com/ PBworks Wikihttp://www.gaggle.net Gaggle emailhttp://www.dfilm.com Make animated movieshttp://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ Make multi-panel comic stripshttp://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php Add subtitles to movieshttp://www.roadtogrammar.com Grammar quizzeshttp://www.spellingcity.com Create spelling lists for your students (Excellent for CBET)
