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.

Kevin Donnelly, TELL ME MORE® by Auralog    
All    
8:00 -8:45 am    
Hyatt Regency B    
 

Is technology your teaching partner? Discover and practice ways to utilize technology in everyday language learning from the innovators at Auralog. See how to put technology to work for you and your students – it’s easy.

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.

Jeff Mattison - Jennifer Uhler, La Paz Middle School, University of Tartu
Paper: S
Sheraton Bondi
4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
How do new teachers engage in a community of practice and reflective teaching while juggling demanding workloads? Three teachers in Japan, Estonia, and California discovered community and a motivating outlet for reflection through online journaling. The presenter analyzes the impact of the project on their professional growth and classroom teaching.

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.

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.

Marian Thacher, OTAN
Demonstration: A
Hyatt Big Sur A
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
How do you find out what others in your profession are reading and thinking? How do you hook up with like-minded colleagues? Social networking sites are expanding rapidly and defining the Internet. Facebook, Ning, Twitter, SecondLife. Find out what do they have in common, and how they can help you.

Angela Webster - Kristi Reyes, MiraCosta College
Demonstration: A
Hyatt Big Sur B
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Presenters will demonstrate how to integrate internet-based video clips into instruction to provide students with exposure to real language in use, opportunities to develop fluency, and the chance to have fun. Attendees will be shown examples of using video variety of ways and will be provided with detailed handout.

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Golden State A (Electronic Village Browsing Room)
The Software Fair is an event for teachers to share how they use different types of software - in innovative, clever, or just plain efficient ways - in English instruction or assessment during in-class or out-of-class activities. Teachers may show how they have used prepackaged language learning software such as Oxford Picture Dictionary Interactive, Live Action English, etc., or they may demonstrate effective and adaptive uses of applications not specifically designed for ESL or other language use such as Microsoft Word or PowerPoint.