It's the end of the year once more! I've started getting our blog for next year ready. It looks as if my group of students will be AMEP (Adult Migrant English Program) ESOL level 3.
We'll start work at the beginning of February 2009.
Have a great festive season and we'll see you next year.
Keep watching!
Short video on Web 2.0 tools used in my blogs & wikis.
It was created to test Stupeflix and then upload onto bliptv to show both tools to LTM mentors.
Hi all, I couldn't be with you today and this is the reason why: elearning08 conference organised by the Australian Flexible Framework.
This is the type of event where teachers like me get our inspiration and professional development to then bring it to you in the classroom.
I hope you all have a great summer break. Keep save and keep learning! Dont forget to visit our websites (LEt's Talk (SI), Let's Talk (podomatic), ESOL f2f (and you can write on it), Time4English, our forum (you can wirte on any of the topics there), and most important:
Keep up with your blogs! We are all connected and following you! Let's talk!
Check out your classmates' podcasts on movies in Let's Talk.
Our college library has a good post on Internet Movie Databases. Very useful before you write a review.
This one is a very reliable film review website, Rotten Tomatoes. It has some professional film critics writing their reviews there, but also reviews by film buffs, like you and I. My class read two reviews of the movie we are going to see on Tuesday, Australia. One positive and one negative. Do you like to read reviews before seeing a movie?
Her is another review of Australia from the ABC programme At the Movies. What do David and Margaret think of it? Do they recommend us to go and watch it? How do they say it?
Marion was showing us a bit of Ellen Degeneres programme. I found this interview of Nicole Kidman wiht her in yappr. Check it out!
We also read some information about the Bombing of Darwin during WW2, as this is part of the movie Australia.
You can also read about another theme of Australia: the Stolen Generations and the Sorry finally given to them by our Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd.
Before I forget, I published Valeria, Lara and Orietta's podcasts in Let's Talk. Read the comments in Valeria & Lara's post. Sophie, one of our students from a couple of years ago, left a very nice comment.
Everyone in level 4 has to prepare an oral presentation.Some of you started learning how to use Power Point at the end of last term. Today we would like you to have time to start working on your presentation using power point. Marion and myself will help you if you need us to.
You will find Power Point in Programs, Microsoft Office.
Check out the presentation below to see a good example of a slideshow (probably power point!) and to get some very good ideas on what to do or not to do in your presentation.
Have you listened to the podcasts about Sculpture by the Sea? Elmira, Sophie and Sue, Diana and Aneta talk about our excursion and their favourite sculptures. If you want to record your own podcast, you can start recording with Audacity. Ask Marion and Rosa to help you and show you how to edit your recording. When you are ready, call us to save it on a memory stick to publish it in Let's Talk.
The year is coming to an end very quickly. As usual for level 4 students, this means that you have to start thinking about what to do next year. On Thursday 13th November (in the downstairs Hogben Foyer between 12 noon and 1pm) we will have a Pathways session with teachers from different courses giving out information about those courses. We will be talking about it in class this week, so that you can understand the different possibilities better and prepare questions to ask about courses you may be interested in. This ESOL study pathways chart can help you, too.
Today I'd like you to listen to a podcast with the college counsellor, Luisa O'delli. Listen to her and do the work on the worksheet. You can publish a summary of her interview in your blog.
One of the sculptures in Sculpture by the Sea was the Ned Kelly mask lying on the shore (on your right). If you have time during the weekend or holidays, listen to this Bushranger Melange Podcast that an Australian high school teachers published for his students.
These photos are from Sculpture by the Sea 2007. Sooon you'll be able to take photos for your blogs of Sculpture by the Sea 2008!
Tomorrow is the big day! Remember to bring your camera and take photos of your designated sculpture and any other sculptures that take your fancy. You can also take a bit of video and upload it to bubleshare with the Add Video button (next Add Image). Next week I'll put a tutorial on how to add your bubbleshare album in your blog post.
If you've lost the excursion worksheet, get it here.
This is the picture that I posted as a puzzle yesterday. You were right, it's called i-sea! Why do you think it's called that?
Part of our course is Reading News. This is an article about Sculpture by the Sea in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Read it and answer these questions:
Once you answer the questions, write a short text in your own words and add it to the post you wrote yesterday on Sculpture by the Sea.
Last week Marion and I decided to introduce you to one of the most spectacular art exhibitions in Australia, Sculpture by the Sea. I took the pictures above at Sculpture by the Sea 2007.
We will be going next Tuesday by public transport, but thought that this would be a good opportunity for you to use the Internet to find out about the event and to plan our excursion .
Check the link Sculpture by the Sea and answer these questions:
Write the answers in your blog, but as a paragraph, without using numbers. It should read like a newspaper clip abut the event. You can borrow my slide show or some of the photos in it for your post. Next week you will be able to take your own!
Now a bit of guess work: Can you find out the name of this sculpture and the artist who created it? (hint: images in google search or official website for the event)
In your blog, write about this sculpture:This website, trip planner, may be useful.
If you want an exciting way of editing your photos, go to picnik.
You can create photos like the one I posted last week (tea cups) or this puzzle one done with the same photo.
If you have photos in flickr, you can place a slide generator in your blog. This will find out your flickr id .This link will tell you how to do it.
A tea shop in Newtown yesterday arvo 
Marion's back from Beijing. What do you want to know about her trip? Did she get your questions for an athlete? Did she manage to interview one of them? Write down the questions and we will ask her and publish her answers next week.
It's the Chinese Moon Festival this week. Read here about the legend linked to it. Did you celebrate it? How? Tell us about it in your blogs.
Watch the video below, What are You Wearing? with you talking about what you are wearing. Sorry that we couldn't record all of you last week. Audacity has something missing... but if you want we can do it today. I also posted it in Let's Talk (students) and Let's Talk, which you can subscribe to with itunes and download podcasts and vodcasts (this one is an mp4)into your ipod .
As we've been talking about clothes and fashion, today you can listen to Cathy's'podcast about Rozelle Markets, where she's got a clothes stall. Don't forget to do the worksheet. It will help you with the listening.
Hi there. Today you should publish in your blog your description of what Alison and Andrew are wearing. If you want to add my bubbleshare album in your blog, follow these instructions: How to add a bubbleshare album to your blog.
Now is your turn to record a short segment about what you are wearing. Remember to revise the language used by Alison, Andrew and the writers to the Fashion Police forum. Then practise with a classmate and when you are ready, record your short interviews in Audacity.
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