Today's teachers need free and exciting ways to deliver lessons. Weebly is one way to achieve this by creating websites in just minutes. With a few tips, teachers can create web-based, fun and engaging lessons. In this session, successful digital lessons for middle school students will be demonstrated.
I am a dedicated and enthusiastic learner and teacher with a B.A in English Language Teaching with high honors. I am earning my M.A in TESOL with concentration in Digital Media and Learning at the University of San Francisco. I have taught English at middle school, high school and... Read More →
This presentation is centered on findings from an intensive ESL course involving Japanese college students from Shimane and Yamanashi Prefectures. This hybrid course contained both online and in-class sessions. The presenter will discuss some affordances of online tools (e.g., Tumblr and blogs) in the classroom as well as potential challenges.
MA TESOL, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
In my presentation on the hybrid intensive ESL course, I’ll also be discussing the use of smartphone for writing.
Areas of interest:
• Digital and Online Learning
• Educational Technology
• Pragmatics
• Sociolinguistics
• Second Language Acquisition
Understanding wh- questions is an essential component of teaching interrogatives to language learners. This presentation will offer participants a novel approach to the teaching of question formation using Craigslist advertisements. The approach engages learners in real-world tasks such as finding housing, buying used items, and searching for jobs.
Reading can improve learners’ writing skills. With this in mind, the presenters created an online and classroom-based course integrating academic reading and writing skills. The presenters will demonstrate the online resources used in this course, providing strategies for integrating online activities into the classroom to promote reading and writing connections.
