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Free Technology for Teachers: Essay Map - Provides Step-by-Step Help for Constructing E... - 3 views

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tools writing teaching-writing K-12 adult-learners VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 23 Jan 16
     
    "Essay Map is a handy tool from the folks at Read Write Think. Essay Map provides students with step by step guidance in the construction of an informational essay. Some of my students seem to struggle most with constructing an introduction and conclusion to their essays. Essay Map is particularly good for helping students visualize the steps needed to construct good introductory and conclusion paragraphs." R. Byrne's description of this tool includes some applications. He suggests Essay Map may be too basic for most high school students, but might be a good tool for middle school or high elementary. However, ESL students of any age might benefit.
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writefix.com | Argument essays, graphs, other writing, and speaking for IELTS, PET, and... - 3 views

writefix.com

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 29 Nov 11 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 29 Nov 11
     
    The targeted audience of this website is high intermediate and advanced ESL learners, and in particular TOEFL test takers. This website focuses on teaching how to write an argumentative and opinion essay. It provides information on argumentative essay structure, teaches about two different essay layouts and supports them with examples, explicitly describes steps of argumentative essay writing process, gives a number of model argumentative essays, demonstrates two sides of an argument, and has 70 argumentative essay topics, and 155 TOEFL writing topics. -- From Lena Shvidko
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Essay Punch: An Interactive Writing Tutorial - 2 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Dec 11 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Dec 11
     
    "Essay Punch takes users through the process of writing an essay. From pre-set writing prompts users learn to develop an idea and write their descriptive, informative and persuasive essays. "The site provides online interactive exercises that guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing." Essay Punch offers a free "demo" walk thru of writing an essay (gathering info, etc.) -- and then 9 more lessons for a fee. -- by Nancy Overman
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Essay Map - 5 views

www.readwritethink.org/...essaymap

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 04 May 10
     
    Use this tool to outline/brainstorm an informational essay (a 3-part academic essay). Great for practicing the formal essay and adaptable to almost all levels.
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The UVic Writer's Guide: The Table of Contents - 2 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 29 Nov 11 - Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 29 Nov 11
     
    This resource from the University of Victoria offers a set of advisory files primarily on writing about literature. It has basic information about types of essays, essay organization, basic steps in writing process, types and function of paragraphs. The website also offers guidelines on writing clear sentences, and introduces rhetorical and literary terms. -- From Lena Shvidko
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Weblog portfolios in an intensive English program - 0 views

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e-portfolio multimedia mobile_tech blogs wikis VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 22 Apr 09 - Cached
  • A portfolio, here, is a collection of written work, related or not, presented as well as it can be, by a student for the purposes of showing, well, the best that the student can do at a given time. Online, portfolios allow wide latitude in individual expression, and can contain a wide variety of kinds of work: research papers, essays, weblog entries, paragraphs, journal entries, summaries or creative work. There is a kind of dynamic tension at all moments with weblog portfolios: on the one hand, they should have visible, from the first screen, all the best of the student's work, properly formatted, edited, looking crisp and nice (defined more carefully below) and properly linked. On the other, the weblog is a dynamic thing, receiving the latest of the student's work, and pushing older stuff down and out of sight.
  • A portfolio, here, is a collection of written work, related or not, presented as well as it can be, by a student for the purposes of showing, well, the best that the student can do at a given time. Online, portfolios allow wide latitude in individual expression, and can contain a wide variety of kinds of work: research papers, essays, weblog entries, paragraphs, journal entries, summaries or creative work. There is a kind of dynamic tension at all moments with weblog portfolios: on the one hand, they should have visible, from the first screen, all the best of the student's work, properly formatted, edited, looking crisp and nice (defined more carefully below) and properly linked. On the other, the weblog is a dynamic thing, receiving the latest of the student's work, and pushing older stuff down and out of sight.
  • Elizabeth Hanson-Smith on 22 Apr 09
     
    The idea of "portfolio" implies that the sum of the parts is greater than its individual parts, that there is some benefit to seeing the whole work longitudinally or from start to finish. A portfolio, here, is a collection of written work, related or not, presented as well as it can be, by a student for the purposes of showing, well, the best that the student can do at a given time. ... The idea of "portfolio" implies that the sum of the parts is greater than its individual parts, that there is some benefit to seeing the whole work longitudinally or from start to finish. A portfolio, here, is a collection of written work, related or not, presented as well as it can be, by a student for the purposes of showing, well, the best that the student can do at a given time.
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 15 May 12
     
    "A portfolio, here, is a collection of written work, related or not, presented as well as it can be, by a student for the purposes of showing, well, the best that the student can do at a given time. Online, portfolios allow wide latitude in individual expression, and can contain a wide variety of kinds of work: research papers, essays, weblog entries, paragraphs, journal entries, summaries or creative work. There is a kind of dynamic tension at all moments with weblog portfolios: on the one hand, they should have visible, from the first screen, all the best of the student's work, properly formatted, edited, looking crisp and nice (defined more carefully below) and properly linked. On the other, the weblog is a dynamic thing, receiving the latest of the student's work, and pushing older stuff down and out of sight." article by Steve McCarty
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Advantages and Disadvantages Sample Essay - 2 views

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writing adult-learners young-learners VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 23 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 23 Mar 16
     
    Another writing task/essay from the IELTS Advantage series.
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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • “The data is pretty weak. It’s very difficult when we’re pressed to come up with convincing data,”
  • he said change of a historic magnitude is inevitably coming to classrooms this decade: “It’s one of the three or four biggest things happening in the world today.”
  • schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward
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  • tough financial choices. In Kyrene, for example, even as technology spending has grown, the rest of the district’s budget has shrunk, leading to bigger classes and fewer periods of music, art and physical education.
  • The district leaders’ position is that technology has inspired students and helped them grow, but that there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again. “My gut is telling me we’ve had growth,” said David K. Schauer, the superintendent here. “But we have to have some measure that is valid, and we don’t have that.”
  • Since then, the ambitions of those who champion educational technology have grown — from merely equipping schools with computers and instructional software, to putting technology at the center of the classroom and building the teaching around it.
  • . The district’s pitch was based not on the idea that test scores would rise, but that technology represented the future.
  • For instance, in the Maine math study, it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training.
  • “Rather than being a cure-all or silver bullet, one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what’s already occurring — for better or worse,” wrote Bryan Goodwin, spokesman for Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, a nonpartisan group that did the study, in an essay. Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • Larry Cuban, an education professor emeritus at Stanford University, said the research did not justify big investments by districts. “There is insufficient evidence to spend that kind of money. Period, period, period,” he said. “There is no body of evidence that shows a trend line.”
  • “In places where we’ve had a large implementing of technology and scores are flat, I see that as great,” she said. “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • It was something Ms. Furman doubted would have happened if the students had been using computers. “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.” But, she said, computers play an important role in helping students get their ideas down more easily, edit their work so they can see instant improvement, and share it with the class. She uses a document camera to display a student’s paper at the front of the room for others to dissect. Ms. Furman said the creative and editing tools, by inspiring students to make quick improvements to their writing, pay dividends in the form of higher-quality work. Last year, 14 of her students were chosen as finalists in a statewide essay contest that asked them how literature had affected their lives. “I was running down the hall, weeping, saying, ‘Get these students together. We need to tell them they’ve won!’ ”
  • For him, the best educational uses of computers are those that have no good digital equivalent. As examples, he suggests using digital sensors in a science class to help students observe chemical or physical changes, or using multimedia tools to reach disabled children.
  • engagement is a “fluffy term” that can slide past critical analysis. And Professor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty,
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      Engagement can also mean sustained interest over a long term, e.g., Tiny Zoo.
  • “There is very little valid and reliable research that shows the engagement causes or leads to higher academic achievement,” he said.
  • computers can distract and not instruct.
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      Student learns the game, not the concept. But this is "skills-based," not a thinking game. Technology mis-applied?
  • t Xavier is just shooting every target in sight. Over and over. Periodically, the game gives him a message: “Try again.” He tries again. “Even if he doesn’t get it right, it’s getting him to think quicker,” says the teacher, Ms. Asta. She leans down next to him: “Six plus one is seven. Click here.” She helps him shoot the right target. “See, you shot him.”
  • building a blog to write about Shakespeare’
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      These are activities tat can't be measured with a standardized test. Can standardized tests encompass thinking skills beyond the most modest level?
  • classmates used a video camera to film a skit about Woodrow Wilson’s 14-point speech during World War I
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford said research showed that student performance did not improve significantly until classes fell under roughly 15 students, and did not get much worse unless they rose above 30. At the same time, he says bigger classes can frustrate teachers, making it hard to attract and retain talented ones.
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      How much incremental improvement is made by having one student more or less? Ed research can't determine that, but it can be felt palpably in a classroom.
  • he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
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      TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Feb 13
       
      So it has to be teachers who find the creative uses.
  • . Sales of computer software to schools for classroom use were $1.89 billion in 2010. Spending on hardware is more difficult to measure, researchers say, but some put the figure at five times that amount.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?”
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Academic Essay Writing: eslflow  webguide - 2 views

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writing academic adult_learners grammar VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 Dec 11
     
    Worksheets for a variety of academic essay types as well as graphic organizers to help with pre-writing, and some short elementary writing activities. Recommended by Nancy Overman.
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How A Classroom Of iPads Changed My Approach To Learning | Edudemic - 0 views

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mobile_tech teachers pedagogy teacher-training VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Oct 12
     
    A thoughtful essay on change in education and how to adapt to it.
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allAfrica.com: Mauritius: The usefulness of the internet - 0 views

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content-based writing VSL

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    A good 7-paragraph essay by an advanced NNS of English
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Teaching Authentic Writing in a Socially Mediated World - 0 views

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writing pedagogy teacher-training VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 05 Mar 13
     
    A lament on the Common Core Standard's reinforcement of the 5-paragraph academic essay, and a call for the teaching of more authentic types of writing. S. L. Davis's list is long, and sparks a lively comment on the purposes of writing.
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Teacher Training Videos | Blogging lecture | Lecture Series - 1 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 09 Apr 16
     
    R. Stannard on blogging and what to do with it. You may be surprised at some of the things you can do with blogs, even though it may be considered an "old" technology. As a writing tool, blog entries are extremely useful and can even be used as a record of revisioins of an essay. You can also create a community of joint writing with multiple authors. The search function is more powerful than a website, and it can hold all sorts of media.
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Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 1 views

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art multimedia tool project-based content-based adult_learners young_learners VSL

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    "Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. " Really simple, easy to use. Create from a URL or type/paste in text. Can be a useful way for students to think about important new vocabulary they are learning, the meaning of a book or essay they have read, etc.
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MakeBeliefsComix.com Printables - 4 views

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writing comics multimedia teachers VSL

shared by TESOL CALL-IS on 14 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • TESOL CALL-IS on 14 Mar 12
     
    " The printables encourage writing and thinking in a quick and fun way. A student's efforts to complete the printable can then become the first step in writing longer essays, poems or stories on the same subject. The printables also can be used with students enrolled in literacy and English-As-Second Language (ESL, ESOL) programs and provide an educational resource for teaching language arts." Over 250 printables that can be used for writing prompts.
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The Structure of a Paragraph Unit - 3 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 29 Nov 11
     
    This web resource is for teachers of high beginning and intermediate writing courses and intermediate ESL learners. The resource provides 8 units that 1) teach about paragraph structure and paragraph elements: topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence 2) introduce transition words and coherence in a paragraph 3) provide the opportunity to learn about and practice basic writing skills such as making an outline and staying on topic. Clear explanations are supported by examples; therefore, teacher can use this resource for class preparation, and ESL learners can use it as additional material to learn about paragraph writing. Practice activities provided by the website are not interactive; however, most of the assessment tasks have answer keys. In addition, each unit provides lesson in a PDF format that can be used by a teacher as a handout. -- From Lena Shvidko For ESL K-12 learners, but would be useful for adults as well. Focuses on the paragraph, rather than the essay, so makes a good beginning set of lessons.
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IUB Writing Tutorial Services Pamphlets - 7 views

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writing composition academic teacher-training adult-learners young-learners VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 18 Aug 13
     
    pdf files with papers on such topics as "How to Write a Thesis Statement," "Paragraphs and Topic Sentences," "Taking an Essay Exam," etc.
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Giving Students Feedback With Kaizena (Voice Comments) Tutorial - YouTube - 4 views

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 17 Sep 13
     
    Kaizena is a wonderful tool for giving oral feedback. This may be faster and more explanatory when working with student essays than writing comments. You will probably give more feedback, and perhaps more positive feedback than when writing cyptic notes. Oral commenting also gives students some listening practice. This YouTube tutorial shows how a teacher is using Kaizena with her student papers.
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Fostering Student Collaboration With Google Docs - 1 views

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writing teaching-writing Google online-lessons adult-learners young-learners VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 13 May 14
     
    This is not about the technical how-to of G-Docs. The teacher instead discusses the pedagogical aspects of how collaboration works, as students write a collaborative essay and discuss it together as they write. The teacher also explains how she does formative assessment as the students write. Using Goggle Docs she can see who contributes and how much.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing - 5 views

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adult_learners grammar writing teachers teacher-training VSL

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  • TESOL CALL-IS on 16 Jun 11
     
    More than you could ever want to know about grammar, with accompanying interactive quizzes. Also includes a lot of information about paragraph and essay-level structures. Your students would have to be at a very high level already to make sense of everything, as they appear to be for NSEs.
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