• Departmental Resources
• ISALC Classroom Teaching
• Online Teacher Training/Resources
• Student and Community Projects

ISALC Classroom Teaching
Writing	The Internet has been used both to stimulate student writing and to showcase student work in ESL 471, Advanced Writing. Have a look at the class Web page (click on students' photos to see how they view themselves as writers), read student writing, explore the assignments, and see individual student portfolios.
Diversity and Civil Rights	This Web page supports a course at our advanced English level, focusing on diversity and civil rights in the U.S. The course objective is to enhance student's language skills while providing important background information on U.S. history and culture, which students will need at L.C. The Web page provides supplementary materials as well as a forum in which to publish student writing. Here is a narrative overview with links showing how computer resources were used to support the course. Highlights of the site include examples of Web-based assignments , transcripts of computer conferencing and samples of student essays and poems generated using computer conferencing as a pre-writing stimulus.
The American West	This course introduces advanced level ISALC students to the American West, its myths and realities. The Web page contains resources on The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Mountain Men and Fur Traders, The Oregon Trail, The California Gold Rush, Native Americans, and Longhorns, Cattlemen & Cowboys.
Environmental Issues	This class Web page contains the calendar, articles, case studies and questions for an intermediate reading/writing course with a content focus on environmental degradation.
Computer Applications	This class Web page supports an intermediate level ISALC class focusing on improvement of language skills, while learning a variety of computer applications. These include word processing, database management, spreadsheet creation, graphics, and the Internet (Email and World Wide Web). See the Course Description and Objectives. Here are the Class Assignments. Have a look at the Culture Capsules project (student team-produced Web pages) and Hatchet project (interactive reader's guide). When taking a class that involves Internet use and publishing, students sign "Using the Internet - Student Guidelines," and information and permission form.
Earth Science	Currently in progress, this course for lower intermediate level ISALC students utilizes Web-based resources and assignments to enhance acquisition of basic science concepts, while improving English language skills.
Facilitating Online Student Research	To prepare intermediate and advanced level English language students for undergraduate study, the ISALC faculty provide instruction in research methods. Students learn browser functions while searching for pertinent information about the college by completing the ISALC/ISO Treasure Hunt. Faculty provide explicit instructional materials to familiarize students with online reference works and databases. To help students make use of Web sites in their research, they receive instruction on Web searching. Tasks require that students learn about and use a variety of different search engines. To put this information into practice, students complete an online activity, "Scavenger Hunt: Trying Out Internet Search Tools." Knowing how to evaluate materials found on the Web is key, and is especially daunting for non-native English speakers. Here are several tasks that help students learn how to evaluate Web sites.
MS Word Templates for Creating Web-based Activities	Web addresses in MS Word documents become clickable links. Instructors who don't know how to (or have time to) make Web pages can design Web-based activities using MS Word templates. Download a sample Web-based activity using a Word document. Download the template used to create the activity. Students can print out the file or turn it in via an Email attachment.
ESL Independent Study Lab	The ESL Independent Study Lab (ESL-ISL) consists of annotated links to approximately 150 Internet sites designed to facilitate self-study by ESL/EFL students in the areas of reading, listening, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, writing, TOEFL, and a variety of content areas. Many sites utilize streaming audio and video as well as multimedia animation. Students also submit reviews of sites and complete short "Interact!" essay assignments, which are posted to the Lab. Interactive language exercises have been authored using Hot Potatoes™, a freeware authoring tool. A grant from the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) has supported the development of this resource, which has been accessed by students and teachers from over 100 countries.
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Online Teacher Training & Resources
Integrating Online Content Material into the Language Classroom	This Web site and WebCT Bulletin Board were created for a USIA (United States Information Agency) sponsored, four week, online workshop presented to teachers and teacher trainers of English as a Foreign Language in Central and Eastern Europe. The Web site is divided into Week 1 (content-rich sites and pedagogy of Internet teaching); Week 2 (Web searching, evaluation and materials creation); and Week 3 (Looking at courses and projects; creating more advanced materials). All of the daily assignments are available. The course is currently offered to ESOL and content-area teachers for graduate credit through L&C's Center for Professional Development.
On-line Materials for ESL/EFL Professional Development	The following are links to Web-based resources presented by ISALC faculty at recent professional conferences/training sessions: How to Create Web-based Culture Capsules, Exploring and Exploiting the Internet: Concepts and Practices for Teaching ESOL, Let's Create Web-based Learning Activities, Perspectives on CALL for Project-Based Learning, Internet/Computer Writing Resources for a Content-Based Curriculum, ISALC WebCT Training, and ISALC Web Editor Training
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Student & Community Projects
Culture Capsules: A Web Project	Culture Capsules is a multimedia research/writing project which has been produced by ISALC students at a variety of language levels. The project requires students, working in pairs, to create Web pages containing a report on a topic from their respective cultures. The reports contain hyperlinks to Web sites, images and short sound files. See this TESOL conference presentation for detailed lesson plans.
PowerPoint Presentations: Campus Offices	The intermediate level Communications Skills course includes a task which requires students to interview and take digital photos of campus personnel. The purpose is to familiarize students with campus departments, as well as to develop their interviewing and public speaking skills. Based on this interview, the students prepare PowerPoint slide presentations to use as visual aids in oral presentations describing the campus offices or departments. Here are lesson plans for creating the PowerPoint presentations.
Hatchet Student Survival Web Guide	Intermediate level students work in their Reading/Writing and Computer Applications class to produce a Web-based survival guide for the novel, Hatchet. This guide provides an illustrated glossary, short research reports and teacher-created study questions to help other students understand the novel. Students built the Web pages themselves with guidance from the instructor in the Computer Applications class.
Community Connections	This project is designed to bring students together with their Friendship Families for work days at local community service agencies. While completing this volunteer work, students conduct interviews, take photos and, afterwards, write up their experiences, which are posted to the Web.
Computer Simulations	When used with instructional materials and activities designed for ESL learners, computer simulations and games provide a rich environment for language learning. Prejudice, by Tom Snyder, Inc. has been a successful simulation in the advanced level ISALC course, Diversity and Civil Rights in the U.S. Used with one computer in the classroom in a small group setting, it provides an excellent mechanism for class discussion and lends itself to relevant follow-up writing assignments. In the intermediate level course, Computer Applications, students have teamed up to build simulated cities using SimCity ® and SimCity2000®. The unit of study ends with oral and written reports. Students use their simulated cities, projected on screen, as a visual aid during their reports. Have a look at class materials describing in more detail how the simulation can be exploited for use in the ESL classroom.
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Created by: krauss@lclark.edu
Updated: 4/25/01