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here is some info from the conference. In particular check out the
cloze reading tool.<br>
<p class="MsoNormal">TESOL Conference 2005</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I attended the 2005 TESOL (Teachers of English to
Speakers
of Other Languages) Conference on April 1 and 2.<span style=""> </span><a
href="http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp">http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate student Paul Lyddon and I provided a
brief
presentation on the OLE Board that was very well received. Powerpoint
of the
presentation is at <a
href="http://www.ole.arizona.edu/ppt2/olemarch5_files/frame.htm">http://www.ole.arizona.edu/ppt2/olemarch5_files/frame.htm</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The focus of the presentation was on the work that
Paul is
doing to establish pedagogical strategies for using the OLE Board in
instruction. Paul is actively using the Board in his ESL class this
semester. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some of the other presentations that were
interesting are
included here:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Lesson Plan Builder is a free online resource
for
creating lessons plans, mostly focused on adult education courses <a
href="http://www.adultedlessons.org/login.cfm?fuseaction=login">http://www.adultedlessons.org/login.cfm?fuseaction=login</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wichita State has an interesting program for
online Journal
Writing that they developed.<span style="">
</span>Unfortunately I don’t think it is on the web but the website of
the
department that developed it is interesting <a
href="http://webs.wichita.edu/ielc-lab/">http://webs.wichita.edu/ielc-lab/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The journal writing software provides prompts to
students on
spelling and grammer help.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A really cool free application for language
instruction the
Webgapper<span style=""> </span><a
href="http://newtongue.org/webgapper/">http://newtongue.org/webgapper/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Go to the above URL, in the box at the top put in
a url such
as <a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/daw/">http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/daw/</a>
click on get page button.<span style=""> </span>This will put
a box at top of the page that lets you retrieve page with letters
missing.<span style=""> </span>Students then have to figure out what
letters are missing.<span style=""> </span>If I have not
explained that well I can give a demo of this.<span style="">
</span>This type of exercise is called ‘cloze reading’.<span style="">
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<p class="MsoNormal">There were two people at the conference who have
used qtvr
to develop online language tutorials.<span style="">
</span>Info on the first is at <a
href="http://alexwrege.com/files/tesol_2005.pdf">http://alexwrege.com/files/tesol_2005.pdf</a><span
style=""> </span>This is his handout but I could not find the
actual module online.<span style=""> </span>Another is at <a
href="http://homepages.utoledo.edu/dcolema/motelzero/student.htm">http://homepages.utoledo.edu/dcolema/motelzero/student.htm</a></p>
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Photos from Sonoran trip, paleoarchaeological site March 2005
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Garry J. Forger, MLS
Assistant Director
Learning Technologies Center
The University of Arizona
1077 N. Highland Ave
Tucson, AZ 85721-0073
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Phone 520-626-7761
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