summer2009esldigitalstorytellingacademy

Summer 2009 ESL Digital Storytelling Academy

MiraCosta College Community Learning Center

About this Class

Class Blog

General Web Sites to Practice English

Oceanside, CA, June 8 - July 17

Instructor: Kristi Reyes kreyes @ miracosta.edu www.miracosta.edu/home/kreyes

Instructional aide: Sue Otis sotis @ miracosta.edu

sotis-suesblog.blogspot.com

Week 1: June 8 - 11

Syllabus

Blogger.com instructions

Class Booklet

Vocabulary List

Practice Vocabulary Words (listening, spelling, pronunciation) with these links (click the link and then click Teach Me, Test Me, or Play a Game):

Topics/Themes:

Getting to know each other

What is digital storytelling?

Favorites and Bests, Leisure Time Activities

Reading: How We Spend Our Leisure Time, Time Magazine

Graphing project: ExcelGraphingProject.doc

Digital Story Project #1

Project description

PowerPoint 2007 Instructions (courtesy of Eli Clarke)

Class photos

Music to download for first project

Instructor's Sample:

Sue's sample

Grammar:

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

PowerPoint:

Uploaded on authorSTREAM by reyesk

Online Exercises:

Comparatives and Superlatives (type correct form)

Comparatives and Superlatives (choose correct spelling)

Comparatives and Superlatives (typing)

Comparatives and Superlatives (spelling)

Comparatives and Superlatives (choose correct form)

Week 2: June 15 - 18

Themes/Topics:

Crime and Punishment

Reading: "The Reliability of Eyewitnesses" in Issues for Today

Related online games:

What was there? *

How good are your detective skills? * (witness game)
Inspector Wombat. Game
Madame Fate Game (good to practice vocabulary!)
Special Investigations Unit Game
Detective Grimoire Game
Found Lost Game

Digital Story Project #2:

Exploring Topics

What to Write About

Draft and type digital story script, revise, record voice-over narration

Samples from Past Students

Instructor's Sample

Sue's Sample

Grammar:

Simple Past and Past Continuous Tenses

PowerPoints:

Regular Verbs

Uploaded on authorSTREAM by kreyes

Common Irregular Verbs

Uploaded on authorSTREAM by kreyes

Past Continuous with Past

Uploaded on authorSTREAM by kreyes

Online Exercises:

Practice and quiz yourself on -ed pronunciations with these links:

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3 (wait for this to download)

Regular and Irregular Verbs

Flash quizzes on irregular forms:     A - B     C - D     E - F     G - H     K - M (1)
Flash quizzes on irregular forms:     P - S    S     More S     T - W (1)
Flash review quizzes on irregular forms:     Quiz 1     Quiz 2 (1)
Flash quiz on verbs with similar past/present tense forms. (1)
Flash quiz on regular/irregular verbs. (1)
A Birthday Party: Past tense questions (1)
A Disastrous Day Flash quiz on irregular forms (1)
My Beard Flash quiz on irregular forms (1)
A Little Accident Flash quiz on irregular forms (1)

Quiz yourself on past tense. Click on the link and then click Unit Self Tests 6, 7Also try Part Self Tests Self, Self Test II:

• Section One
• Section Two

Was Playing / Played: Flash quiz on past and past in progress (1)

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/Tenses10.cfm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastcontinuous.html

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pascon.htm

Quiz yourself on past continuous and past. Click on the link and then click Unit Self Tests 9, 10.