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Wired… to the world

Wired… to the world. Web sites to extend, enrich and empower ESL writing. Radio. Earth and Sky homepage. http://www.earthsky.org/ Radio Rookies. http://www.soros.org/initiatives/youth/articles_publications/articles/radiorookies_20020701. Video.

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Wired… to the world

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  1. Wired… to the world Web sites to extend, enrich and empower ESL writing

  2. Radio • Earth and Sky homepage. http://www.earthsky.org/ • Radio Rookies. http://www.soros.org/initiatives/youth/articles_publications/articles/radiorookies_20020701

  3. Video • Burt, Miriam. 1999. Using Video with Adult English Language Learners. Center for Adult English Language Acquistition (CAELA) http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/video.html

  4. E-pals • E-mail PenPals Club. http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Pointe/2993/mainpage.htm • E-pals. Free online source to connect student e-pals for classroom projects. Can choose e-pals based on country and/or language or on the map. http://www.epals.com/ • ETandumhttp://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem/etindex-en.html and http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/stats-eng.htmlor http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/index.html • Gaer, S. Email Projects Home page (links to various types of online projects) http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm • Linguistic Funland TESL Pen Pal Center. http://www.linguistic-funland.com/addapal.html

  5. Blogs • Campbell, Aaron. 2003. Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes. The Internet TESL Journal. 9(2) http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html • Krauss, M. Blogs and online portfolios for advanced students. Lewis and Clark College http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/aes220f2006/index.html

  6. Digital Photos Ruan, Henry. Writing through Digital Photography. Lower East Side Preparatory High School, New York, New York. • Teacher page:http://www.teachersnetwork.org/teachnetnyc/hruan/click.htm. • Unit page http://lespnyc.com/department/foreign_languages/hruan/nlasife/index.html • Link to tutorial about about analyzing photos: http://www.mediaworkshop.org/tutorials/photoanalysis/index.html

  7. Digital Stories • Digital Storytelling (Bernard Robin, College of Education, U of Houston) powerpoint at http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/ • Educational Used of Digital Storytelling at http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/ • Center for Digital Storytelling (CA-based nonprofit) http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html • Project combining digital storytelling with digital mapping tools http://www.storymapping.org/ • Digital Storytelling; electronic portfolios (project of center listed above) http://electronicportfolios.com/digistory/index.html

  8. Digital Stories (continued) • The Elements of Digital Storytelling (University of Minnesota School of Journalism) http://www.inms.umn.edu/elements/ • Digital Storytelling (Mark Nichols, AZ Learning Exchange) http://www.teachingteachers.com/story.htm • Free thematic “kits” of audiovisual materials http://www.kitzu.com/ • Banazzewski. 2002. Digital Storytelling Finds its Place in the Classroom, Maria Hastings School, Lexington Mass (grade 4 and 5). Multimedia Schools 9(1) 32-35. http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan02/banaszewski.htm

  9. Digital Stories (continued) • Barrett, Helen. Storytelling in Higher Education: Supporting Reflection on Practice to Support Deep Learning. (Power Point) http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios/Kean.pdf • Telling stories: using drama and multimedia with ESL students http://www.prel.org/eslstrategies/multimedia.html • ESL courses. http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/eiannotti/

  10. Miscellaneous • Amnesty International. http://www.amnesty.org/ • Ask-an-expert sources http://www.cln.org/int_expert.html

  11. Music Smithsonian Global Sound http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/EducationalInst.aspx • Tools for teaching http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/teaching_intro.aspx • Find resources at the Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/index.html • Smithsonian Folkways recordings: http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html • Corridos sin Fronteras. Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit: http://www.corridos.org/ • La Nueva Cancion http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/archives_22.aspx

  12. Tech Testimonials and Oral Histories • StoryCorps. http://www.storycorps.net/ • Scholastic. Oral History of the Skagit River Watershed for Grades 4-8 http://content.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=501 For Grades 9-10 http://content.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=502

  13. Voices: Community Stories Past and Present http://www.voicesinc.org/ Tucson-based nonprofit organization to promote low-income youth telling their stories using a wide range of media: digital storytelling, journalism, photo documentation, photography, dance, spoken word, oral history. Examples: · 110 ° After-school Magazine Program, 30 kids meet M-TH, from 2-6 to choose topics of deep interest to themselves to research, write and photograph – published throughout the year in local newspaper; mentored by former participants ·“Looking Forward/Looking Back (after school digital storytelling program with youth of the Tohono O’odha Nation), ·“Generaciones Unidas” (youth told neighborhood stories using photo collages)

  14. Circle of Stories ·http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/community/index.html Native American Storyteller Site sponsored by PBS – includes educators section with lesson plans as well as a place to submit your own story and/or read other people’s stories about a landscape meaningful to them. Includes a gallery of images and materials by /from the storytellers themselves; an explanation of different types of stories. ·Educator site link at http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/educators/index.html ·Lesson plan “Record and Preserve your Family’s Stories” http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/educators/lesson3.html

  15. Virtual Field Trips • Gaer, S. Virtual visits. http://alri.org/visits/vv.html • Writingtogeher wiki. International Community Visit: Virtual School Visit Project http://writingtogether.pbwiki.com/ICVV • Utah Education Network. Virtual Field Trips (index by subject area) http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/fieldtrips2.htm How to create a virtual tour http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=6018 Student created trips http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/fieldtrips.cgi?type_id=2003 Opening pagehttp://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/index.html Creative country reports http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13481

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