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As the new school year begins, you may be looking for some new strategies and content to add to your teaching toolkit. OTAN’s Web-based Class Activities is where you can find links to fun and informative Web sites offering activities and online tools to help you supplement and enhance your classroom instruction. Every month our resident expert, Kristi Reyes from MiraCosta Community College, explores, reviews, and describes Web sites and services that are highly interactive and adaptable for creating meaningful projects for adult learners.

In the September 2008 issue of Web-based Class Activities, Kristi tested and evaluated six services that let you create online exercises, quizzes and flashcards, all of them free of charge. You can make your own custom evaluation tools by using text, images, and even sound and video. For extended practice, learners can do the activities repeatedly from the home or school computer, or for the final evaluation they can take a test that you print out.

Looking for ideas for writing or discussion topics? On the Web-based activities page you will find classroom activities based on the NPR radio series, This I Believe. These are short, 5-minute essays that are read by the author on a variety of topics related to what they believe about life. They are thought-provoking, and appropriate for ABE, ASE and higher levels of ESL. For example, in The Choice To Do It Over Again Daniel Flanagan talks about how the birth of his son inspired him to learn to read. He started with his son’s books, and is now a full-time college student, studying for a degree in sociology. The class activities contain links to several essays along with samples of classroom discussion and writing activities.

Other topics covered in this section of OTAN’s Web site include making video presentations with VoiceThread, creating photo projects like calendars, collages and posters with Big Huge Labs; and creating timelines online with circaVie.

The Web-based Class Activities page features the theme of the month, but at the bottom of the page, in the archives, you will find links to a wealth of ideas for other online activities appropriate for Health Literacy, ESL and Citizenship, Adult Basic Education and more

October topic is the Elections. http://www.otan.us/browse/index.cfm?fuseaction=browse&catid=10722

Timeline
10:30-10:45 – intro and instructions 10:45-11:30 – explore and create 11:30-12:00 – share

Instructions
The cohort will be divided into 5 groups. Each group will explore a topic, pick one tool (if there are more available) and create a short project. Also, the group will develop a lesson plan appropriate for the project they create. In the last 30 minutes each group will have 5 minutes to showcase the project to the rest of the cohort.Each group will post the lesson plan and link to their project on the TIMAC wiki page.

Lesson Plan Sample

 * Example of a Lesson Plan using CircaVie [[file:Creating.a.timeline.pdf]] created with [|Lesson Plan Builder]
 * Use this Sample Lesson Plan [[file:Lesson Plan for Web.doc]] to create yours. Fill out the highlighted areas first, and expand on it if you have time.

Groups
Bethany Rich Peter Hubbard Kathleen Edel || --group 2-- Justin Loh Rebeca D'Harlingue Sally Peckenham || --group 3-- Suzanne Ludlum Cindy Wislofsky Sybil Carthwright || --group 4-- Shin Song Katalin Gyurindak Myrna Montenegro Martha Robles || --group 5-- Hongyan Zheng Sylvia Bullock-Richards Rebeca Ring ||
 * --group 1--

Topics
http://www.otan.us/browse/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_ft&catid=31650&recno=4499
 * Online Quizzes **

http://www.otan.us/browse/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_ft&catid=31192&recno=4434
 * National Public Radio’s “This I Believe” **

Using VoiceThread for Instruction
http://www.otan.us/browse/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_ft&catid=31331&recno=4454 http://www.otan.us/browse/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_ft&catid=31323&recno=4447
 * Big Huge Labs from FlickrToys **

Using Glogster With Your Students
http://www.otan.us/browse/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_ft&catid=31509&recno=4485

Group 1
The lesson below would be great for ABE/GED, CTE or advanced ESL students. http://www.otan.us/images/publicarchive/forteachers/internetclassroom/DoWhatYouLove.pdf Here is the link to the full article & audio on the NPR website: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5568583

This article would be great for ABE/GED students. The story is about a high-school dropout who now believes in "do-overs" in life. No materials have been created, though, so if you create some, post them here! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92676216

http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/index.php?id=4275
http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/?id=14058 http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/?id=14057 http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?id=12891
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Group 4
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