Steve,
This GE website (http://www.imaginationcubed.com/launchpage) looks very
promising for use with my low literacy students.  Many have not had
experience with computers and I can't spend much time on computer skills in
my ESL class, but I think we they can use learn some basic skills in a fun
way using features of this web site.  

	First of all, it's a clean and user friendly way for students to
learn to use drop down bars.  You could use it to do dictation exercises
with the typing feature under "Tools."  The lower level students can choose
a very large font, without having to know the word font or what font size
means.  They can choose their own color from the drop-down bar or you could
dictate the color and the word. E.G "write house in Green, write sofa in
red..." 

 	The shapes feature could be fun for reinforcing shapes and colors as
well as prepositions.  "Put a red triangle on the left.  Put a green square
under the triangle."  These are just ideas that I came up with on looking at
it but I'm sure there's much more you could do.

Thanks for the tip!

Betsy Kubota
Adjunct Faculty
Non-native Literacy
Harper College
Palatine, Il 

-----Original Message-----
From: technology-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:technology-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of Steve Quann
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:35 PM
To: technology at nifl.gov
Subject: [Technology 774] Re: Free online "whiteboard"

Linda,
Good ideas. This sounds like a beginning literacy class. Would this be
too difficult for them to do online? How comfortable are they keying in
letters? I assume if they are just getting comfortable with a pen that
the online pen might be daunting. If not, it might also be fun to see if
after a number of sounds/words are typed by you on a main computer that
they can --as an intial step --come to the computer and try circling or
underlining the sound/word that you say with the colored pen.  
Steve


>>> Linda Hamilton-Korey <hamiltonkorey at yahoo.com> 12/19/06 12:19 PM >>>

Steve, i don't know how practical this would be with an on-line
whiteboard, but I use whiteboards in my classroom to practice phonics. I
pronounce a sound and students write the letter they hear. After I check
all the boards, they erase. Then we up the ante. I pronounce the all the
sounds in a word they they know, they put the sounds together and write
the word.
   
  linda

Steve Quann <steve_quann at worlded.org> wrote:
  This might have been mentioned before but I don't recall. Has anyone
used this or another in class? If so, how? Or can we think of some
activities?
http://www.imaginationcubed.com/launchpage 



Steve Quann
World Education
44 Farnsworth Street
Boston, MA 
617.482.9485



>>> "Aliya AbdulLatif" 12/15/2006 10:29 AM

>>>


Hi everyone

I thought I should contribute and pay tribute as well :-)
Thank you for this great list and the work you have done on it. I have

benifited from a lot of links especially google literacy, webquest and

wikis.

Thank you
Regards & Merry Christmas
Aliya



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>To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List 

>Subject: [Technology 754] Re: Excited

>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:24:02 -0500

>

>Mariann,

>I have been "lurking" these past few months. I am Jim in

>Buffalo and I am an instructor of Culinary Arts and

>Hospitality Management at a local Community College. The

>time I have spent on this Listserv seeems unfair as I have

>learned so much and contributed so little.

>Thank you all for your insight, honest opinions and sharing

>of research. I intend to remain a memeber of this service

>becaue I feel I have so much to learn about Technology and

>Literacy.

>Thanks also to Dr. Patsy Medina at Buffalo State for

>introducing me to such a valuable tool.

>Merry Christmas to all and I am looking forward to 2007 with

>mush enthusiasm.

>Best Regards,

>Chef Jim

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>

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>From: "Mariann Fedele" 

>To: "The Technology and Literacy Discussion List"

>

>Subject: [Technology 746] Re: Excited

>Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:53:30 -0500

>

> >Hi Barry,

> >

> >Great work and thank you for sharing!

> >

> >This seems like it would be a great review tool for

> >students who were in the class that day, as well as for

> >those who attend class regularly but, perhaps had to miss

> >that day's lesson. In terms of how this might be used

> >within an adult literacy context...many programs have

> >rolling admissions policies. This often makes curriculum

> >planning difficult because you might begin a unit and have

> >someone join the class midway through. It could be

> >beneficial to have newly entering student have access to

> >video based lessons that they had missed. I imagine this

> >might be most effective with a higher level GED population.

> >It also seems like it could be a great reinforcement of

> >pronunciation and grammar lessons for ESOL students.

> >

> >I agree with you that shorter segments (an intro to the

> >topic, then pieces based on student prompts or questions)

> >might be engaging. Also, it would take more camera work and

> >editing (and that could be a challenge or inhibitor), but

> >some shots of student might be good as well (students

> >asking questions, or going to the board to work out

> >problems).

> >

> >

> >

> >What do others think?

> >

> >

> >

> >Regards,

> >

> >Mariann

> >

> >

> >

> >Mariann Fedele

> >

> >Associate Director,

> >

> >NYC Regional Adult Education Network

> >

> >Literacy Assistance Center

> >

> >Moderator,

> >NIFL Technology and Literacy Discussion List

> >32 Broadway 10th Floor

> >New York, New York 10004

> >212-803-3325

> >mariannf at lacnyc.org 

> >www.lacnyc.org 

> >

> >________________________________

> >

> >From: technology-bounces at nifl.gov 

> >[mailto:technology-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Burkett,

> >Barry Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:25 PM

> >To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List

> >Subject: [Technology 745] Excited

> >

> >

> >

> >Hey guys,

> >

> >Here is something I am excited. I am working with the

> >state of KY on putting VOD-casts of class on the internet.

> >Here was our very first piece,

> >http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7174474385156197754&hl=en 

> >> >54&hl=en> it is about using a percent triangle in math.

> >

> >Here are things I have already learned that will apply to

> >future shots, 1 shorter segments, 2 pre-editing (I would

> >start it at minute 1:13), and 3 short films based off

> >student led questions.

> >

> >Here is the cool thing, it is WAY easy to put out there. I

> >used my gmail account to upload it to the internet via

> >google. By putting it on google I am not using up the

> >school's or the state's server (?) resources. Here are

> >reasons why I like it, I can link to it allowing online

> >students a quasi class-room feel, as well as it will help

> >people answers to similar questions.

> >

> >So what does this have to do with literacy? What about

> >group reads on the internet... book discussions... your

> >student reading to themselves (video modeling) that can be

> >accessed away from the learning center, etc.

> >

> >Well, if you can't tell I am excited about the project.

> >The biggest holdup is the cost of the video camera (Sony

> >Digital... no DVD), if a group of learning centers or

> >programs go in on one together it might be more feasible.

> >

> >Any other ideas for how to use this with Literacy?

> >

> >

> >

> >Barry Burkett, Adult Educator

> >Thorn Hill Learning Center

> >Frankfort, KY

> >502.223.3110

> >

> >

> >

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