Branka Marceta, OTAN; Shin Song, North Orange County CC; Myrna Montenegro, North Hollywood Politechnic Adult School
Demonstration: A
Hyatt Big Sur A
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
ESL Technology Integration Mentors engage in projects at their schools, working together with one or more fellow-teachers/mentees to effectively integrate technology in teaching and learning. As you hear about their results, you will learn a few tips and tricks to use at your school on Monday.

Monica Jones, Mt. San Antonio College
Demonstration: A
Convention Center 204
2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
The 2008 US election is a hot issue! The presenter will demonstrate developing thoughtful, objective lessons enabling students to understand the differences between political parties and candidates. All students can then vote in a mock classroom election, while learning to become informed future voters in the US or abroad. Handouts.

Jee-Eun Oh - Roger Dupuy, UC Irvine Extension
Demonstration: IEP
Hyatt Big Sur B
TIME CHANGE: 8:00-9:30
Achieving a more authentic and valid assessment and feedback is possible through the use of simple new recording software called Audacity. Two different balanced techniques will be introduced and demonstrated – one for practicing iBT speaking and one for giving feedback to writing tasks. Handouts.

Stephanie Levin, San Francisco City College, CATESOL
Paper: CC
Convention Center 318
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
The presenter will briefly discuss improvisation, its principals in a linguistic environment, and how it works in a classroom setting. Participants will have the opportunity to use all the conversation sprinters and practice the improvisation techniques within the group. A handout of conversation sprinters and techniques will be distributed.

Yi-Chia Lin - Hui-Wen Chen
Demonstration: All
Hyatt Carmel B
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
How can we use SMART Board as classroom teaching equipment to teach lessons in English language classrooms? SMART Board can help students engage in and participate in class activities.  This demonstration will show a way of teaching summary writing with SMART Board technology.

Penny Pearson, OTAN
Computer Lab: A
Hyatt Carmel A
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Discovery Education Streaming (formerly unitedstreaming) offers over 4,000 full-length videos segmented into over 40,000 content-specific clips, high resolution images, clipart, sounds, lesson plans, blackline masters and much more. Get connected with the resources available through DE streaming! This workshop explores these resources and offers examples and suggestions for the adult education classroom.

Nina Ito - Christopher Mefford, ALI-CSU; Long Beach
Paper: IEP
Convention Center 315
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
In this session, the presenters will explain how they were first hired as ELT consultants (sent to conduct their research on an Alaskan cruise), and later as curriculum developers by Princess Cruises. They will discuss the challenges of creating a curriculum for such a diverse student population–the crewmembers.

Stacey Greer, The History Project, UC Davis; Jessica Williams, The California History-Social Science Project, Winters High School
Demonstration: S
Convention Center 316
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
This workshop will demonstrate strategies to expand English Learners’ academic literacy and achievement in history at any grade level. Presenters will model classroom-tested lessons on the rise of democracy, a 10th-grade content standard, developed through the History Project at UC Davis’s Building Academic Literacy through History Program.

Brian Huff, Rowland Unified School District
Demonstration: S
Convention Center 314
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
How do you foster motivation among adolescent learners? This demonstration will attempt to answer this question by presenting three strategies that encourage learner autonomy and integrative motivation. It will describe the step-by-step process of implementing each strategy along with providing handouts of sample activities and student work.

Barbara Bass - Jessica Plotner, San Diego State University
Demonstration: IEP
Hyatt Regency A
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
It is often challenging to find relevant, authentic, and interesting listening activities for students, yet current research shows that students greatly benefit from such practice. This session will explore using web resources such as YouTube and webcasts to create engaging, thought-provoking, and authentic listening tasks for IEP/EAP classrooms. Handouts provided.