On November 6, 2008, Tim Marchand gave a teacher development presentation and workshop on ways to use the recording technology in the tutorial rooms (G411-G420), including video clips and activities from FE speaking and listening, reading, and writing classes, troubleshooting tips, and pros and cons of various media for saving student video clips. Tim’s handouts and PowerPoint slides from the session can be downloaded below. During the workshop, participants referred to Forrest Nelson’s student handout with instructions on how to record in the tutorial rooms. This handout can be found in the “How To Documents” Folder in Shared Files.
Use of Recording Technology in the Tutorial Rooms
November 12th, 2008 — Public Files
Using a commericals for reading tasks
October 23rd, 2008 — Public Files
This is a commercial that I found on the net. I have used and still use it in my reading classes. I have prepared a number of comprehension questions that I give the students or ask the students to find the answers for. There are some other extension questions too.The commercial is about “Grandpa Chew”watch?v=9ll-bDmK3EAThe questions are at this link reading-comprehension-questions-for-grandpa-chew-life-insurance-commercial
Reading Swap Shop
July 8th, 2008 — Public Files
This zip file contains an overview of the Reading Swap Shop, facilitated by Kay Irie on June 5, 2008, along with some of the materials presented. For more information about ideas and activities in the folder, please talk with the contributors listed below.
Kay Irie
Dan Jackson
Paul Joyce
Christine Wilby
Deborah Bollinger
A Discourse Approach to Teaching Reading/Writing
July 1st, 2008 — Public Files
In his presentation on May 13, 2008 entitled, “A Discourse Approach to Teaching Reading/Writing,” Peter McDonald considered whether modern theoretical approaches to linguistic description can be effectively applied to the teaching of reading/writing at all levels.
This zip file contains Peter’s PowerPoint presentation and handout.
Download A Discourse Approach to Teaching Reading/Writing Folder
Meaning-Focused Dictation
July 1st, 2008 — Public Files
In the LTD lunch forum on April 23rd, Jim Sick presented some variations of the traditional dictation
activity. These materials are useful both as teaching activities and as easy to create
“ongoing” assessments. The activities can easily be adapted for use at any level.
The zip file below contains Jim’s PowerPoint presentation and handout.
Writing Swap Shop Folder
December 5th, 2007 — Public Files
The lunch forum that was held on November 13 was a writing swap shop. Here are the activities and materials presented at the swap shop. For more information about these, please see the teachers listed below.
Peter Bellars
Deborah Bollinger
Damon Brewster
Alison von Dietze
Dan Jackson
Paul Joyce
Chihiro Tajima
Making Slideshows
December 3rd, 2007 — Public Files
On November 30th, I gave a workshop which demonstrated a couple of ways to make web-ready slideshows with voice narration. Here is a handout from the workshop which provides links to the software I used plus a couple of other alternatives. Click on the link to download the handout.