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 j52FbRG09412; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s29eeee7.047@BG_NW1.bosglazier.com> 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: "Carole Bos" <cbos@bosglazier.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10906] Re: FW: What distance learning products are X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.2 Status: O Content-Length: 1951 Lines: 51 Hi Sara: We find that distance learning is enhanced with Internet-based content. AwesomeStories.com, which is free to teachers, schools and libraries, is web-based and uses the Internet the way it was originally intended. The students love AwesomeStories for many reasons: It is interactive, allows the user to see pictures and maps at the exact moment they are needed (which reinforces learning and memory), provides a safe guided tour of on-line primary sources (which the students would likely not find on their own), and allows both teacher-guided and independent learning. The text is written in understandable English but many of the links lead to more sophisticated writing, thereby providing greater challenge for more advanced students. "Teaching with Movies" http://www.awesomestories.com/sample_topics/teaching_movies.shtml is particularly engaging for ESL students, as are the site's history http://www.awesomestories.com/history/ and disaster http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/ channels. Although the site is subscription-based ($19.95 a year for hundreds of stories with hundreds of thousands of primary-source links), it is free to teachers and their classes, schools and libraries. You just have to sign-up for academic membership at AwesomeStories' main URL: http://www.awesomestories.com/ Carole Bos Editor, AwesomeStories >>> sbrennen@tiu11.org 06/02/05 10:46 AM >>> Hi there, Is anyone using a distance learning product with their ESL students that the students really love to use? What is your review of the product(s) you are using? -Sara Sara P. Brennen TIU Community Education Services 6395 SR103 North, Building 58 Lewistown, PA 17044 Phone: 717-248-4942, ext. 113 Fax: 717-248-8610 Email: sbrennen@tiu11.org <mailto:sbrennen@tiu11.org> www.padistancelearning.org <http://www.padistancelearning.org/> "Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier." -Charles F. Kettering
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