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San Diego Community College District, Continuing Education - from Administrator's Nomination Letter
Stephanie Thomas currently teaches a beginning level ESL class, in which she integrates technology in a number of ways. One of the things she does is create her own interactive worksheets with visuals she downloads from the computer to support her lessons. Her syllabus, with a variety of graphics from online, is beautiful. She also is very skilled in using Powerpoint to present new grammar lessons and facilitate student projects. She is so creative in using Powerpoint with beginning level students that she was asked to deliver a powerpoint workshop for our teachers, which was very successful. Although she is an adjunct instructor, Stephanie has tremendous leadership potential. When a team of teachers decided to present at our recent CATESOL Regional Conference on writing, Stephanie took the lead and organized each persons presentation into one Powerpoint presentation. In addition, she co-presented with me at the CATESOL State Conference in April. Our program is committed to integrating more technology in our classrooms. One of our priorities is re-modeling our classrooms to include consoles that include Internet access, an LCD projector, laptop, and document camera. ** Teachers will need training on incorporating this technology into their daily lessons. Stephanie is so creative that I am sure she will be a great trainer, especially in teaching beginning level instructors how they can integrate more technology into their lesson plans. Another area we would like to explore is creating opportunities for learners to work online when they cannot come to school, which means getting more teachers to have class websites. We are also interested in seeing how social networking can expand opportunities for language learning. **

We are using the following strategies to expand the use of technology in our program: a. We have funded a technology resource instructor to train our instructors on computer basics, use of district e-mail, and integrating technology into the classroom. She does regular workshops, small group mentoring, and one-to-one mentoring. She provides tech tips every Tuesday to increase teachers computer skills. She also teaches teachers how use the computer lab for language reinforcement, demonstrating software and use of websites. b. We are in the process of re-modeling our classrooms to include Internet access, laptops, LCD projectors, and document cameras so that teachers can integrate more technology into their classes. c. One of our instructors is on a sabbatical researching ways of using Facebook and other social networking devices to enhance language acquisition. We expect training on this in the fall. d. We are expanding opportunities for every class to have access to a computer lab to support instruction. e. We fund our instructors to attend conferences where they are learning new ways to incorporate technology in the classroom.

Activity: 3 Interesting Things About Me
Hi Stephanie


 * 1) My great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was on the //Mayflower//. You can see my mom's maiden name on Plymouth rock.
 * 2) I was a gymnast in NH as a girl. At my APEX, I was the 4th best gymnast in the state. (Of course, NH is a really small state.)
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