ELL+and+Tech

===Welcome to the ELL and Tech Wiki. Below you will find information and resources that can help you integrate the use of technology into your content instruction to provide comprehensible input for English Language Learners as well as Native English learners.===

Vision of 21st Century Learners
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ELL Presentation-2009 IOWA, 2010 SD
[|ELL pres.pdf]

INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
ESL Resource Center Purdue Online Writing Lab English Club The Center for Writing Studies-a great collection of websites for students and teachers Web English Teacher TESOL Annenberg Learner

WEB RESOURCES
Audacity free voice recording software for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh platforms Aurora Public Library: E-Readers free online access to audio books using Storyline Online, Tumblebooks, StoryPlace, and International Children's Digital Library. Many of the books are available in English and Spanish as well as other languages. Colorado Thinkfinity Website interactive lesson activities for reading, writing, math, science, social studies Discovery Education-subscription video service that includes images, interactive simulations, and resources to support curriculum topics and from shows on the Discovery Channel. Glogster web based poster creation program that lets the user include, graphics, text, audio, video and web links Owl & Mouse Educational Software a collection of free software to build letter recognition, reading, writing, social studies skills Pics4Learning copyright free photos PicLits students select words to create captions for chosen pictures. Phet interactive science simulations. This is a K-12 project from CU Boulder Promethean Planet interactive learning flipchart resources that use ActivStudio 3 and ActivInspire Thinkfinity-a free website that includes lesson plans and interactive activities for all content areas from National Geographic, Smithsonian, Read, Write, Think, Marco Polo etc. [|Voki] create speaking avatars using text or recording voices Wordle a site that can be used for students to create word nets Xtranormal a free website students can use to create animated digital movies. "If you can type, you can create a movie"

Resources listed below for Math, Shannon's Alphabet, and Science are created in a software program created by Promethean. To view or use the files that end with .flp ActivInspire or ActivInspire Viewer needs to be installed on the computer being used. It can be downloaded by clicking this link ActivStudio Viewer

**Math Resources**
After downloading the shape Flipchart files, you can use the flipchart builder to merge the two files to make 1 book. [|shapeFlipchart_pt1.flp] [|shapeFlipchart_pt2.flp]

Shannon's Alphabet/Letter Sounds Flipcharts
[|Little a's Sound Bag.flp] [|Little b's Sound Bag.flp] [|Little d's Dustpan part 1.flp] [|Little d's Dustpan part 2.flp] [|Little E Explores part 1.flp] [|Little E Explores part 2.flp] [|What Little F Found part 1.flp] [|What Little F Found part 2.flp]

**Science**
Primary Grades-K-2 I Am A Fish.flp Life Cycle of a Plant.flp Grades 3-8 Exploration Habitat Investigating Optimal Animal Environments

**Social Studies**
The file below uses Google Earth which is a free download from Google. You can access their website by clicking on the link Google Earth Download US Landmarks.kmz Wheres the Pizza.kmz Additional Google Lit Tours Google Lit Trips Google Lit Trips for Young Readers Google Lit Trips for High School Readers