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- Tessa Gray@tessa.gray
Tessa Gray added a new discussion topic Help please? What digital tool would I use? 959 days ago
- Lauren Briggs@LaurenB
Lauren Briggs added a new discussion topic Game-based learning and gamification in the ESOL classroom 1176 days ago
- Anthony Faitaua@Anthony.Faitaua
Anthony Faitaua replied on the discussion topic Using digital technologies to support an ESOL student 1654 days ago
- Dallas Powell@Dallas.Powell
Dallas Powell added a new discussion topic Using digital technologies to support an ESOL student 1658 days ago
- Annette Vartha@AVartha
Annette Vartha replied on the discussion topic Using googledocs 1714 days ago
- Breda Matthews@Breda.Matthews1
Breda Matthews replied on the discussion topic Using googledocs 1789 days ago
- David Zehms@David.Zehms
David Zehms commented on the blog Using imovie and digital stories. 1884 days ago

Hi Peter, I've recently joined the VLN and just found your blog about using imovies. I teach ESOL at a primary school and my students make presentations, but I have gotten some good ideas from you. Thanks so much. David
- Paulette Newton@Paulette.Newton
Paulette Newton commented on the blog First Week Using Edmodo 1932 days ago

Hi Celia, This looks great! We are considering using emodo to share learning tasks at home and to hopefully engage our parent community more readily. Did you experience any problems setting this up with your class? Do you encourage your parents to...
- Juliet Fry@jrf65
Juliet Fry bookmarked Gapminder world 2012 2554 days ago

This is a site that keynote speaker at CLESOL, Andreas Lund, shared with us. He used it as an illustration of a place where learners could be active in being active designers of learning.

http://www.gapminder.org
- Simon@simonccrosby
Simon bookmarked Lextutor 2554 days ago

Good site to find text complexity and vocab testing

http://www.lextutor.ca/
- Suzie Vesper@Suzie.Vesper
Suzie Vesper added a new discussion topic Grammar resources online 2569 days ago
- Mary-Anne Murphy@mamurphy
Mary-Anne Murphy added a new discussion topic ESOL resources for Pasifika Primary students 2625 days ago
- peter courtney@peter.courtney
peter courtney published a blog post Putting it all together 2631 days ago

It is hard to focus on one particular lesson at the moment as all my classes are doing larger project based work. A real focus for me over the last term has been integrating a lot of different applications or tool into my lessons. My year twelve...
- Julie Luxton@julieluxton
Julie Luxton bookmarked e-languages exemplarrs 2646 days ago

This wiki has some wonderful examples of of student work in languages using a range of engaging learning tools e.g. Glogster, Blabberise, Voicethread, Quizlet. This helps us see how English language learners could use these!

http://e-languageexemplars.wikispaces.com/
- Juliet Fry@jrf65
Juliet Fry added a new discussion topic Using googledocs 2646 days ago
- Suzie Vesper@Suzie.Vesper
Suzie Vesper bookmarked Busy teacher 2666 days ago

A huge number of ESL resources to use in the classroom.

http://busyteacher.org/
- peter courtney@peter.courtney
peter courtney published a blog post Getting started with comic life 2714 days ago

I began the unit on writing recounts using comiclife this morning. I created several pages with pictures of nouns, verbs, time, and place. I also created a table of useful words. The aim is for students to add the words to the pictures to...
- peter courtney@peter.courtney
peter courtney published a blog post Using imovie and digital stories. 2714 days ago

I have used digital stories as an extension when doing information texts. The students first wrote an information text on their countries culture and then created a digital story using their information text as the script. I find it is a good way to...
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- David Zehms@David.Zehms
  
  David Zehms 1884 days ago
  Hi Peter,
  I've recently joined the VLN and just found your blog about using imovies. I teach ESOL at a primary school and my students make presentations, but I have gotten some good ideas from you. Thanks so much. David
- Suzie Vesper@Suzie.Vesper
Suzie Vesper commented on the blog A week of voice threading and podcasting 2715 days ago

Sounds like a great outcome and a good way to collect data on the needs of the students. We will watch this space :-)
- Janine Elizabeth Brown@jbrownbear
Janine Elizabeth Brown published a blog post A week of voice threading and podcasting 2720 days ago

For my literacy this week I used these devices to show the oral understanding of a book. After my reading assssments last week I found that two of my reading groups struggled with the comprehension questions. One of these groups...
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- Suzie Vesper@Suzie.Vesper
  
  Suzie Vesper 2715 days ago
  Sounds like a great outcome and a good way to collect data on the needs of the students. We will watch this space :-)

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