Website & Workshop

Tools: Google Sites, Symbaloo, Remind, Google Forms, Seesaw, Quizlet, Kahoot!, Quizizz, Socrative, Quizalize, Formative, EDpuzzle, Playposit, Padlet

Audience: English as a Second Language (ESL) instructors at Wyoming Adult Education Summer Institute

Challenge

The Wyoming State Director of Adult Education asked to me to give a presentation at our state conference to help our ESL instructors implement technology into their classrooms.

Solution

I selected 3 ISTE Standards for Educators to focus on: (1) Understand why we need to teach digital literacy skills to adult ELLs, (2) Explore multiple tech tools, and (3) Plan to integrate some tools into the classroom. I created a Google Slides presentation with the EdTech tools that I have successfully used over the years and developed a Google Sites website so that instructors could have access to the materials after the workshop.

Results

Participants were exposed to using new EdTech tools like Remind and Seesaw and walked away with resources to implement game-based and multi-modal eLearning solutions into their ESL classrooms.