Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2009
Tanya Lawless, Greenville County ESOL teacher, and Kristen Stancil, Oconee County ESOL teacher, are two of our main presenters at the Southeastern Conference for Literacy in the Digital Classroom on November 14th in Greenville, South Carolina. They are in Raleigh today and tomorrow presenting at the 2009 Carolina TESOL Conference. Their sessions are hands on with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2009
Richard Byrne is an educator in Maine and an EDuBlogs award winning blogger. He is sharing tremendous tools and we will be reviewing his site at the 11/14 conference. It is just amazing how much you can find on teachers blogs. Do some searching and see what you can find. Remember, it is not the tool but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
Check out what is happening on the Clemson campus on November 4th. Business writing instructor Bobby Rettew has organized the Clemson Network Bash conference for students to network with business leaders in the area of social media. What a great opportunity for Clemson University students.
I have the distinct privilege of being one of the speakers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2009
Here is the RCA Small Wonder camera you will be receiving at 8:30am when you check in on Saturday November 14 at 8:30am.
You will also get a 2GB micro SD memory chip to use with the camera.
All of the conference sessions will engage you with the camera to develop learning activities you can use with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2009
The National Council for Teachers of English has declared Tuesday October 20th, as National Writing Day. This is a way for ELA teachers to explore new ways to stimulate their students to write. There are contest and activities for all content areas. Enjoy!
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2009
Vicki Phillips, Oconee County Math Specialist, is our math support conference presenter and she has been reviewing the math resource and game site called Manga High. It has very challenging and interactive math games for students, teachers, and parents. Math teachers and any other teachers who support math students will find this site very helpful to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2009
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… Is an excellent resource for a variety of digital literacy resources. Larry has an ESOL/ELL background and you will enjoy Larry’s descriptions of the reources.
We have new registrants that are now recieving this blog prior to the digital literacy conference on 11/14, now only 5 weeks away. You will be hearing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2009
The Library of Congress has built a web resource called Primary Access. The site allows students to access primary sources in the Library of Congress data base. The best part is that there is an easy to use multi-media presentation creator built into the site and students can drag and drop the primary sources to assemble, save and [...]
