The first session of the day was Using Technology with English Language Learners. The presenter discussed statistics regarding the United States and directed us to the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition. The National Clearinghouse provides statistics, lesson plans, and web links to assist teachers with ELL students.
InternetTutorials.net (search lesson plans)
Colorincolorado.org (lots of resources for parents and teachers)
jason.org (National Geographic Society Adventure Site)
During the second session, I attended a presentation by the University of Central Florida on Digital Storytelling. The presenters discussed ideas for getting students interested in reading by creating digital booktalks. By showing book trailers, suggest-a-book quiz, and interactive booktalking activities. Their site they are working on Digital BookTalks. It is also worth your time to take a look at the UB the Director link which offers teachers and students directions on how to make their own book trailers. It is important to teach students how to critically analyze and tell a story. You could start..."Once upon a time, there was a man." Is this a story? What is missing?
After a short lunch break, I sat in on another featured speaker, Stevan Kalmon. Mr. Kalmon works for the Council on 21st Century Learning and was addressing 21st century assessment.
As he spoke, he passionately explained how we need to make students...learners. He gave many examples of assessment for learning... rubric, assessment cards, conferences, thumbs up, logs or journals, and student led progress monitoring chart.
During the last session of the day, I enjoyed another one of Hall Davidson's presentations, Revenge of the Digital Immigrants. His great sense of humor, entertaining style, and wealth of information made me want to sit back and soak up more information from this dynamic speaker. Information from his presentation can be found Discovery Education Speakers Bureau.
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