In this webinar Facilitator Samantha Parkes, moderator Mary Scholl, panelists Jonnathan Elizondo, Shirley Duarte, Elianna Barrantes and MEP Advisors Ana Isabel Campos, Marianela Granados, Alfredo Ortego Cordero, Yaudy Ramirez Vasquez have worked together to create this webinar in which facilitators discuss how to design writing prompts, how to model expectations, scaffold drafts, and how to comment on drafts.  Participants are encouraged to think about how they can integrate process writing for all levels of proficiency and will create their own texts following a process-writing approach.

This webinar was funded by the US Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica and organized by the Ministerio de Educación Publica de Costa Rica in collaboration with Centro Espiral Mana (now The Institute for Collaborative Learning).

In this webinar, Connecting with Students and Parents Using Screencasting, Facilitator Samantha Parkes, Moderator Mary Scholl and Panelists Jonnathan Elizondo and Shirley Duarte and MEP Advisors Ana Isabel Campos, Marianela Granados, Alfredo Ortego Cordero, and Yaudy Ramirez Vasquez introduce screencasting software (video  feedback) and demonstrate how it can be used to give feedback on student writing, oral presentations, and as a platform for numerous communicative tasks, including conveying information to parents.  They discuss pedagogical best practices for using screencasting, show examples of how it can be used, and discuss the benefits and challenges to integrating this kind of technology into the classroom.  Participants will be encouraged to brainstorm and comment on how they could use or integrate screencasting into a current task or project they use with their students.

**Please remember that it is obligatory to get parents written permission before recording students. 

These webinars are funded  by the US Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica. They have been organized by the Ministerio de Educación Publica in Costa Rica in collaboration with Centro Espiral Mana. (Now known as the Institute for Collaborative Learning)

Facilitator Samantha Parkes, moderator Mary Scholl, panelists Jonnathan Elizondo, Shirley Duarte, Elianna Barrantes and MEP Advisors Ana Isabel Campos, Marianela Granados, Alfredo Ortego Cordero, Yaudy Ramirez Vasquez have worked together to create this webinar in which participants reflect on themselves as language learners in regards to pronunciation and will be introduced to the Color Vowel Approach as a tool for their own learning.   Using the Color Vowel Chart, teachers can develop an easy vocabulary with which to identify their own strengths and areas for growth. They can visually and physically experience where sounds are located in the mouth, and using the Color Vowel Organizer, they can categorize the various ways to spell the same sound.  This approach is useful and attractive to all ages and levels of English language proficiency. 

This webinar was given on June 13, 2018. It was funded by the US Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica and organized by the Ministerio de Educación Publica de Costa Rica in collaboration with Centro Espiral Mana. (Now known as the Institute for Collaborative Learning)