ELL Collaboration and Shared Resources

Rationale and support for using general Web 2.0 tools with ELL populations.

A blog site featuring a wealth of links and information about using Web 2.0 tools for teaching in a variety of settings and to a variety of student needs.

An app site with tutorials and examples for using the app with students to create dynamic animations and green screen presentation projects.

Add voice to still images. Useful for creative writing exercises and development of spoken language skills.

Allows students to narrate a walk through a community, tour a mapped space and label important features in native or learned language.

A website to teach language skills - useful for a teacher who needs to gain some basic language skill to assist a student.

Support for digital badging in life after primary/secondary school and beyond primary ELL instruction.

A developing site for managing and maintaining digital badges specifically designed for language learners.

Digital badging in the context of online language learning.

Making a case for digital badging and blended learning opportunities to support ELL students.

A resource to encourage and remind teachers and parents that ELL students may also have other challenges that need to be addressed in addition to their language needs.

A timely and necessary reminder of how similar ESL students and their needs are to general ed students. This article emphasizes the point that what is good for ESL students will probably also be good for all students or at least students with other specific needs.

Rules and suggestions for developing great stories. This site is useful as a resource for students creating digital stories.

Professional resources and blog site for teaching in an ESL clasroom.

A website about the struggle and strategy to embrace inquiry based learning in the classroom. Read in the context of ELL, this site offers strategies to encourage, empower and embrace IBL for all learners.

Slides resource to study, share and support project based learning development, a strategy that inherently supports language learners as they develop social and academic language in the context of a group project.

Resource of stories of famously successful people who struggled, failed but did not give up. As a translation or ELL reading excercise, the content is extremely useful to remind students that everyone struggles, everyone fails, what they are trying to do is difficult but with perseverance they too can succeed.

An extremely useful blog site about ELL struggles, strategies and success. A must-read for people attempting to understand and support ELL students in any environment.

Background information and study useful for new teachers of ESL to understand the needs and identify useful strategies for instruction and assessment for second language populations.

User and resource guide for developing effective Symbaloo pages. Symbaloo provides visual support and organization to online tools.