Alice Mercer’s PD Blog

I will be doing a presentation at the ILC (Innovative Learning Conference) on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. Here is my outline:

• Theoretical underpinnings of English Language Development
• English Language Development Standards
• Instructional methods and the tools to make it happen
  • Visual and Vocabulary Support
  • Multi-media projects to support writing and oral language development
• Projects that show how it’s done

My slides:

and my links:

• California English Language Development Standards

  Oral langauge development is a explicitly stated standard for all English Language Learners. Oral language is also part of the state’s Language Arts standards for ALL students. Frankly, asking for oral repsonse to your lectures will NOT suffice. That is n

• VoiceThread – Third Graders on Friendship

• Flickr: Advanced Search

• flickrCC

  Free photos for non-comercial use (and sometime for commercial use)

• Lexipedia – Where words have meaning

• Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

  This is a fantastic thesaurus site, showing the visual relationship between words.\n\n

• Introduction to Perseverance | Sixth Grade Blog

• Motivator: Create your own customized motivational poster

• Ms. Mercer’s Class Website » ELD

• Earth’s Structure

• BubbleShare – Earth – By A. Mercer

  Here is a multimedia project created with students in my fifth grade ELD class last year. Students created pictures to talk about a natural space they enjoyed, then added audio narration to their pictures.\n\n

• Audacity: Download

• Lame MP3 Encoder Binaries

• Ms. Mercer’s Class Website » Podcasts

  These are examples of podcasts that I did last year with my fifth grade class\n\n

• Arnie Abrams Handout for Digital Storytelling workshop

  Note the example of a copyright disclaimer on page 6 which suggests how to handle posting materials that have some copyrighted content. copyright disclaimer: “Many of the digital stories on our site include images and audio found on the Internet using commonly available search engines. The stories have been created for non-profit, educational use by students and teachers and we hope are within the fair use protection of existing copyright laws. If any copyright owner objects to the use of any work appearing on this site, please contact us and we will remove the work and review the propriety of including it.”

• It’s Elementary Show #10 – Copyright: It’s the Law | It’s Elementary

• Flickr: nicholaselementary’s Photostream

• Online Stopwatch