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Since 2018, Tim Krause has been adapting Oregon-based news stories for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels on ESOL News Oregon. Those readings come with interactive questions to review vocabulary, details, main ideas, and additional language features. They are a great resource, and older archived articles often are just as applicable today. In 2019, I started …

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For learners who are trying to stay home, internet access and bandwidth can be a major obstacle for their communication and learning. They may usually rely on phone data for their own internet access, or there may be a need to limit home use for essentials (which at this point may be for streaming entertainment …

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In the spirit of brainstorming and sharing out, I’ve been talking to folks and reading about this whoosh to online/remote teaching, and wanted to share some thoughts, mostly about the tech side. I sent most of this message to the PCC listserve on Friday, March 13. From now until April, the most important tech will …

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