I am an English language educator in Portland, Oregon.
This information may be helpful for students and community members who have family and friends who are still in Afghanistan and are not safe there. Click here for a computer translation in Farsii / Persian. برای ترجمه رایانه ای به فارسی اینجا را کلیک کنید Click here for a computer translation in Pashto. په پښتو …
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Written by Eric Dodson ESOL News Oregon · People Around The US And World Protest Violence Against Black People People in Portland are protesting police violence against black people. Since Friday, May 29th, thousands of people in Portland and more than 200 other cities in the US and around the world, have come together on …
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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PSU IELP Faculty Retreat Afternoon Sessions, Sep 16, 2019 Presentation Resources This page has several important links that we’ll use for the presentation. Explore examples of H5P H5P.org signup page Workshop Participation and Sharing: Google document with links to H5P content. Explore H5P Activities Vocabulary practice for a high-intermediate reading course (by Luciana Diniz, PCC) …
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Tim Krause writes and creates fantastic interactive reading and vocabulary exercises for ESOL News Oregon. Since January, I’ve been recording narration of an article every week, doing some cleanup in Audacity, and posting the recording online. I’ve been collecting the embedded audio, article text, and Tim’s H5P articles on a google site that I set …
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for PCC Teaching and Learning Center, May 2019 Titles and presenters below spoke at the 2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit, April 2019 in Vancouver, BC. Overview: Free vs. Open Accessibility Using learning data for continuous improvement Open pedagogy starter kit 5Rs – Old and New Pressbooks as an Open Platform Interactivity with H5P Open Ed, …
Unleashing the power of interactive, multimedia, open-source technology to engage learners ORTESOL Spring Workshop 2019, Portland Community College Southeast Campus, May 4th, 2019 This page of resources was created to accompany my presentation at ORTESOL’s Spring Workshop. Presentation Resources My slides are available here. H5P.org signup page Workshop Participation and Sharing: Google document with links …
