ESL Classroom Strategies Video

ESL Classroom Strategies

Medieval Times lesson demonstrating several ESL teaching strategies. The lesson plan used for this video can be found here: http://goo.gl/aA1IR The demonstrated strategies are listed in pink on the lesson plan. Click on Read More to watch the video.

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Collaborative Medieval Times Prezi

To the left is our collaborative Medieval Times Prezi. We have begun a new unit today about Medieval Times.  As a class we started with the Medieval Times heading and the 5 sub headings: Housing, Foods, Feudal System, Recreation and Clothing.  Prezi allows up to 10 simultaneous users that can edit a single workspace.  Students added text, images and videos about Medieval Times to the 5 sub headings.  Students are able to work on the Prezi through a sharing link that has been provided on our class Edmodo page.  Student worked on this for 1 class period thus far.  I am very excited to experience what students will add to the Prezi during the course of this unit.

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New Features of the Class Website

There are some new features of our new class website.  When designing this class website one of my goals was to make it a one stop shop for students.  The Learning Goals section lists, by subject, the learning goals that we are working on at school.  The Student Work tab has several sections for many of the student projects using technology that serves as a digital portfolio as well.  The For Students tab gives students quick links to a few of the web 2.0 tools we are using at school and should be using at home.  The Learning Goals, Student Work and For Student tabs are a few of the new features of the "one stop shop" classroom website.

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