CATESOL 2011

Although CATESOL has come and gone another year, I must admit, this year's conference was one of the best I have ever attended. The memories are implanted in my mind as though the conference took place yesterday! I enjoyed the beautiful ambiance of the Hyatt Regency and all the spectacular views of Long Beach that surrounded the conference, networking with colleagues from southern, central and northern CA and seeing Katherine Garlow, Marty, Lee and Kevin there. All the workshops I chose to go to were informative, organized and well worth attending. As always, I came away with some new ideas that I look forward to implementing in my class.

It was also a pleasure to share my presentation entitled Teaching Basic PowerPoint Presentations to Low Level ESL Students. The objectives of the lessons are to have students in low level ESL classes increase their basic computer skills and their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in English by learning how to put together basic Pp presentations. Needless to say, all who attended the session saw that not only could it be done, but it was also a great success! The highlight of my presentation was being able to showcase some of our own Beginning ESL students and their presentations. Four of them were from my 7:00 class and one of them was from Joanna's 4:30 class.

If you would like more information about what was shared at the session, feel free to contact me.