Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h5BKKcC01070; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:20:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:20:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200306112013.h5BKDlC00660@literacy.nifl.gov> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Robbinsac@att.net To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9068] Re: 2003 Mini-Grants from NIFL ESL Special Collection X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (May 5 2003) Status: O Content-Length: 3882 Lines: 75 Hello I completed the review of the ESL collection several months ago but have not recevied any information from you about the $120.00 stipend for reviewing the material. Did you receive my responses? Carol Robbins Knoxville TN > Hi, > > I am pleased to announce the three winners of 2003 Mini-Grants from the ESL > Special Collection. Each winner receives $500 and the winning project is posted > on the ESL Special Collection for dissemination nationwide. > > Valerie Glass > Catholic Charities Immigration and Refugee Services > Harrisburg, PA > > The goal is to develop a curriculum resource that teachers can use to help them > plan student-centered lessons around using the telephone. The curriculum is not > meant to be a series of isolated lesson plans, but rather a guide to help > teachers address the skills and strategies their students need for all telephone > conversations. It will include ideas for lessons that build up learners' skills > towards the effective use of the telephone. It will also include tools that > teachers can use for pre and post assessments, goal setting, rubrics for > evaluating roles plays, worksheets and sample activities. Listening activities > will also be recorded and made available for download from the internet. A > bibliography of recommended resources will be included. The materials will be > easy for teachers to use, easy to customize for different classes and easy to > prepare. > > > Norma Spencer > Operation Read > Lexington, KY > > Operation Read will be developing 12 Internet Activity HELP CARDS for use with > low level ESL Learners. The project is designed to foster more successful > opportunities for low level learners in their explorations online. The first > copies of these HELP CARDS will be available in Spanish/English. The HELP CARDS > will provide picture and simple text navigation for some beginning experiences > with online resources. The HELP CARDS will be laminated and made available in > our computer labs. Copies for learners will also be provided in print form for > home and other site practice. The cards will be available in a print format on > line at our web site (opread.org) and on the ESL Special Collection > (www.literacynet.org/esl). Other translations of the cards are planned. The HELP > CARD model has been used by Operation Read to support learner practice with > various software programs and general computer tasks (Power Point, labels, > digital camera use). The first model cards were developed with! > the Wallace Grant Initiative which Operation Read received in collaboration > with the Lexington Public Library (Lexington, Kentucky) from 1997 through fall > of 2002. The model cards have encouraged students that are anxious about working > in software or computer tasks to feel and perform with more confidence. > > > Selene Mak > Blue Ridge ESL Council > Charlottesville, VA > > Jay's Adventures Across the United States: Tutors and learners from our program > will take Jay, a laminated paper doll, on a tour of Charlottesville. > They will document this project with pictures (Jay will be in some of them) and > make mini-albums of their tours. These trips will showcase events and tourist > spots in the Charlottesville area. Jay will be mailed along with "A Guide to > Charlottesville" to another ESL program in the United States. The receiving > party > will produce their mini-albums, and mail the final product and Jay to other ESL > program across the United States, thus helping Jay travel the United States by > postal mail. All mini-albums will be uploaded onto our website and will serve > as virtual visits to each city/town that Jay has visited. > > Please visit the ESL Special Collection at www.literacynet.org/esl. > > Peace, > Matthew Scelza > Project Director > ESL Special Collection
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