Presentation - Growing Up Digital

Multiple perspectives help, too. Try the news from around the world

• • https://onlinenewspaperlist.com

Communication

Right tone, right place, right time

Social vs academic writing resources

• Writing Cooperative's Social media writing vs. academic writing

• Purdue Online Writing Lab's Genre and Medium page

• 10 Professional Texting Etiquette Rules (Huffington Post)

Collaboration

• Google Docs - docs.google.com - for simultaneous writing/editing of a document

  • Skype in the Classroom - https://education.microsoft.com/skype-in-the-classroom/overview - join virtual field trips, set up collaborations with other teachers

• iEARN - https://iearn.org - in many countries; lets teachers create class projects and invite others, join a class project with another teacher, or join a global project

• Sharing files on Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Google for Education, Facebook (use a Facebook Group for your class)

• Sharing and creating with Pinterest - visual links to sites (need to have a login, but it's free)

Creativity

Remixing - putting together a variety of sites (like Pinterest), media, text

Let students use their own photos, drawings, videos, etc. to create

This is another approach to alternative assessment.

TESOL Technology Standards

See much more on the Resource List page...

The 6 Ps from TESOL - the6principles.org

The Six Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Language Learners

See webcasts from the Electronic Village at TESOL 2019 for each one of the principles:

http://callis2019.pbworks.com/w/page/131108382/Hot%20Topic%203%3A30%20pm

Download more information from the6principles.org

• Principle 1: Know your learners

• You can use Google Forms or SurveyMonkey to do a quick initial survey to find out who your learners are, their goals, and their motivation

• Principle 2: Create conditions for language learning

• Consider using flipped learning, with tools like Flipgrid (free) - flipgrid.com and Video Recorder - webcamera.io

• Principle 3: Design high-quality language lessons

• LessonWriter - www.LessonWriter.com to automate creating reading materials from a text

• WebQuests - a format for project-based learning. QuestGarden (questgarden.com) lets you search for ready-made quests, Zunal (https://zunal.com/) lets you create your own (only one for free), or a template in Google Sites (https://sites.google.com/site/studentwebquesttemplate/) to create as many as you wish.

• Apps for higher-order thinking skills are listed at Kathy Schrock's Bloomin' Apps - organized by Bloom's Taxonomy - www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html

• Principle 4: Adapt lesson delivery as needed

• One size does not fit all, so good to differentiate learning and provide scaffolding

• BreakingNewsEnglish (www.breakingnewsenglish.com) has multiple levels of the same reading and audio file, with many activities so teachers can customize learning

• Text Analyzer provides a CEFR level for a text you input (www.roadtogrammar.com/textanalysis)

• Google Translate (translate.google.com) can help give learners the gist of a reading, but is not fluent

• Principle 5: Monitor and assess language development

• Principles 4 and 5 go together - monitor and assess, then adapt, then assess

• Formative quizzing with Kahoot! (kahoot.com) for individual or team work, and with Quizlet (quizlet.com) for quizzing and memory games

• Formative video quizzes with ESLVideo (eslvideo.com)

• Formative and summative rubrics with Rubistar (rubistar4teachers.org)

• Principle 6: Engage and collaborate in a community of practice

• TESOL International Association has regular and Global Professional Memberships - see www.tesol.org/about-tesol/membership for more

• TESOL's MyTESOL Lounge is open to anyone; register for a free login (my.tesol.org)

• Your local affiliate is a great choice, too.

Last updated 7 November 2021 by D. Healey.

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