Deborah's Attic / TESOL 2010 / CALL for Newcomers
CALL for Newcomers
Presenters
Deborah Healey, American English Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene; dhealey AT uoregon DOT edu
Website: www.deborahhealey.com
John Madden, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota; jpmadden AT stcloudstate DOT edu
Website: web.stcloudstate.edu/jpmadden/
Resources
Teacher tools
- Lesson plans, articles and research: https://www.iteslj.org
- Authentic material in different media: www.bbc.com ; www.cnn.com -> education -> student news; https://www.pbs.org/teachers/ ; English Insight - https://condor.depaul.edu/~dsorsa/insight/
- Larry Ferlazzo's blog for ideas about different skill-builders, teacher tools, and more: https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
- Nik Peachey's blog for ideas about different skill-builders, teacher tools, and more: https://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/
- Free text articles and other academic material for reading: www.deborahhealey.com/digitallibraries.html
- NoodleTools for web searching suggestions and options: www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
- Twurdy - readability of web pages: www.twurdy.com
- Delicious to store web links: www.delicious.com (how-to information at www.deborahhealey.com/techtips/sept2009.html)
- Resource for setting up a lab, including suggested software/Internet resources: https://www.eltexpert.com/
- On-line safety - Cybersmart: https://cybersmart.org/
Sites for creating material
- BreakingNewsEnglish: - www.breakingnewsenglish.com and LessonWriter: www.lessonwriter.com to use/prepare material
- Crossword generator - Hot Potatoes: www.hotpot.uvic.ca or search online
- Authoring programs - Hot Potatoes: www.hotpot.uvic.ca (how-to handout)
- Audio recorder/editor - Audacity: https://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- Gradebook - SnapGrades: www.snapgrades.net or search online
- Tools in Word: Insert Comments, AutoSummarize
Lab use
- Group discussion sites - Nicenet: www.nicenet.org (how-to handout)
- Online Writing Lab: https://owl.english.purdue.edu
- Concept mapping with FreeMind: https://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php and Inspiration
- Social networking - if you're careful - www.ning.com , www.facebook.com
One-computer classroom
- Discussion generators - Flickr ( www.flickr.com ), class responses on social networking sites, simulations
- Concordancing: https://www.lextutor.ca/ , https://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx
- Reference information: www.iTools.com
- 5-minute quiz fun: a4esl.org , www.eslcafe.com , www.manythings.org
Independent use (with teacher direction)
- Project work: WebQuest (https://webquest.org ), class-to-class (https://iearn.org/ , www.tigweb.org/ )
- Rubrics - rubric generator: rubistar.4teachers.org/
- Class and individual web pages: sites.google.com , www.blogger.com
- Audio sharing/discussion: www.voxopop.com/ , www.podomatic.com