According to the Texas Education Government Agency (https://tea.texas.gov/Academics/Instructional_Materials/Accessible_Instructional_Materials/), this website "serves as a resource to state and district-level educators, parents, publishers, conversion houses, accessible media producers, and others interested in learning more about accessible educational materials and the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS)."
TESOL blog has a paragraph on digital story telling and has a helpful hint with a link to Language Experience Approach where it is recommended to write stories about the student's personal or shared experiences. It is recommended in the blog to use this personal approach to writing with digital storytelling.
Adult ELL lessons designed by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL). The lessons were designed to have a mixture of vocabulary and games for beginning intermediate students designed around work skills.
These videos have a short and long versions as well as an associated PDF document. The videos focus on teaching one topic and the class is other adult ESL learners. These videos would be good supplemental at home review videos for associated class topics.
English as a Second Language lessons with recorded video to focus on different skills. This site is especially useful as supplementary material for classes.
This website is very popular with English Language Learner teachers. It has articles divided by level of difficulty and with comprehension questions. It also has many current and relevant articles
A game where the students watch and learn songs, then complete a cloze test while the song is playing. The song pauses appropriately to allow for the student to fill in the missing words.
An article providing a premise for using social media on using social media in low skilled adult classes to gain more skills. The article also points out the lack of research into social media in adult education.
ESL Videos is a site which allows users to make quizzes from YouTube videos. There are already a number of shared quizzes and videos made. These quizzes are put into levels. I think some teachers may find the quizzes applicable to native speaker students as well.
Survey Monkey is an internet survey and polling software which is popular. It has an educational free version which includes the ability to make simple quizzes. It is fun to write polls for students to understand their class dynamic and ungraded learning quizzes for them. While the free version does not offer explanations to incorrect questions, this can be supplemented with text on ones website for the student to read afterwards.
This site includes some good ideas on quantitative problems to give students to solve using spreadsheets in non-math classes. It also contains examples using PowerPoints with embedded spreadsheets.
This blog post describes some different ideas for using spreadsheets in the classroom. I thought the timeline was a great idea! It would be a great idea to do at the beginning of the semester with the students.
This blog post describes Quizlet Live feature in Quizlet. Quizlet live allows for competition among students or groups of students as long as each student or group has a device.
kettaku on 19 Nov 18According to the Texas Education Government Agency (https://tea.texas.gov/Academics/Instructional_Materials/Accessible_Instructional_Materials/), this website "serves as a resource to state and district-level educators, parents, publishers, conversion houses, accessible media producers, and others interested in learning more about accessible educational materials and the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS)."
