At a recent PD event organized by the Reading Dept. (see my last entry), I met Dr. Linda Nolte, who turned out to be an experienced ESL/ELL teacher as well. Today, I am glad to have her permission to share two PowerPoint projects designed by her.
The first one is a six-slide PowerPoint presentation that she says "models what a beginning ESL student created." She had asked her ESL students to share information about them and their countries of origin prior to this PowerPoint project. With lots of help, especially with editing, her students were able to copy/paste web links from where they obtained pictures (otherwise, they would be plagiarizing, according to Dr. Nolte). She reported, "The students were very proud of their products and found that they had more self confidence afterward." I know my colleagues in our dept. such as Angela have been using a similar model to enhance teaching and learning of literacy skills in our lower-level classes. And I'm glad that many teachers in our field see the benefits of using technology in this regard. You can download Dr. Linda's model here.
The other PowerPoint project is a book report, which is more appropriate for upper-level ESL students to do. I don't see why it cannot be adapted for a short story or even a biographical account. You can download the model here.
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