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Activities for the Online English Classroom
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21 Starter Questions for the Online Classroom
By Hetal Ascher, Tess Medlin
Resource Description: Class starters (warm-ups, do nows) are a great way to engage students at the beginning of a class. These starter questions are written for the online classroom. These starters encourage students to share their thoughts, have fun, and practice English.
Resource Type: Activities
By Hetal Ascher, Tess Medlin
Resource Description: Class starters (warm-ups, do nows) are a great way to engage students at the beginning of a class. These starter questions are written for the online classroom. These starters encourage students to share their thoughts, have fun, and practice English.
Resource Type: Activities
Assessment Tools and Activities
Resource Description: This document is part of a resource website with helpful links for faculty making transitions from face-to-face teaching to online teaching. It specifically lists different types of non-traditional assessments that can be conducted online, including self-performance review, case study analysis, blog, wiki, audio and video creation, learning portfolio, and annotated bibliography. It also discusses the considerations faculty should make when choosing the type of assessment.
Resource Type: Activities
Resource Description: This document is part of a resource website with helpful links for faculty making transitions from face-to-face teaching to online teaching. It specifically lists different types of non-traditional assessments that can be conducted online, including self-performance review, case study analysis, blog, wiki, audio and video creation, learning portfolio, and annotated bibliography. It also discusses the considerations faculty should make when choosing the type of assessment.
Resource Type: Activities
December Holidays: 5 Writing Activities
By Betsy Gilliland
Resource Description: December offers teachers many opportunities to engage students in fun and reflective writing activities. This post offers a few writing activities for learners of varying proficiency levels. Depending on your students, these activities can be implemented in a single lesson or extended across several weeks as process writing projects. They can be kept private (in a journal shared only with the teacher), shared with family, or posted publicly on a class website.
Resource Type: Activities
By Betsy Gilliland
Resource Description: December offers teachers many opportunities to engage students in fun and reflective writing activities. This post offers a few writing activities for learners of varying proficiency levels. Depending on your students, these activities can be implemented in a single lesson or extended across several weeks as process writing projects. They can be kept private (in a journal shared only with the teacher), shared with family, or posted publicly on a class website.
Resource Type: Activities
Decorate a Christmas Tree with Google Slides
By Eric Curts
Resource Description: A fun activity where you decorate a Christmas tree using Google Slides. All of the information you need is included in his blog, along with the template that you can copy. This is a great way for students to be creative and to work on their writing skills by describing or writing about their holiday traditions, plans, or memories.
Resource Type: Activities
By Eric Curts
Resource Description: A fun activity where you decorate a Christmas tree using Google Slides. All of the information you need is included in his blog, along with the template that you can copy. This is a great way for students to be creative and to work on their writing skills by describing or writing about their holiday traditions, plans, or memories.
Resource Type: Activities
Digital Valentine´s Day Activities
By Vien Cao
Resource Description: Here is a roundup of activities and resources that teachers can use in their online classes to celebrate this February holiday.
Resource Type: Activities
By Vien Cao
Resource Description: Here is a roundup of activities and resources that teachers can use in their online classes to celebrate this February holiday.
Resource Type: Activities
Plant a Question and Watch the Answers Grow - Using ‘AnswerGarden’ in the Online Classroom
By Gayle McIntyre
Resource Description:This activity provides a fun and interactive way for students to speak or write about classmates’ opinions or interests. It is particularly useful for students to practice using quantifiers, adverbs of frequency or percentages or fractions in their communication.
Resource Type: Activities
By Gayle McIntyre
Resource Description:This activity provides a fun and interactive way for students to speak or write about classmates’ opinions or interests. It is particularly useful for students to practice using quantifiers, adverbs of frequency or percentages or fractions in their communication.
Resource Type: Activities
Providing Inclusive Holiday Activities to ELs
By Judie Heynes
Resource Description: Some ideas for promoting an inclusive classroom environment in December.
Resource Type: Activities
By Judie Heynes
Resource Description: Some ideas for promoting an inclusive classroom environment in December.
Resource Type: Activities
Thanksgiving Digital Resources
By Various Authors
Resource Description: These ready-to-use Thanksgiving activities will have you and your students celebrating, practicing gratitude, and having fun!
Resource Type: Activities
By Various Authors
Resource Description: These ready-to-use Thanksgiving activities will have you and your students celebrating, practicing gratitude, and having fun!
Resource Type: Activities
Using Interviews to Assess and Mentor Students
By Barbara Morgan Gardner, PhD, and Kenneth L. Alford, PhD
Resource Description: This article describes how to use 5-minute interviews to assess and mentor students. Instructors may easily do this with web conferencing tools.
Resource Type: Activities
By Barbara Morgan Gardner, PhD, and Kenneth L. Alford, PhD
Resource Description: This article describes how to use 5-minute interviews to assess and mentor students. Instructors may easily do this with web conferencing tools.
Resource Type: Activities
Wakelet Winter Activities
By Sarah Kiefer
Resource Description: A fabulous collection in Wakelet filled with winter holiday resources
Resource Type: Activities
By Sarah Kiefer
Resource Description: A fabulous collection in Wakelet filled with winter holiday resources
Resource Type: Activities
Disclaimer: This project was funded by a grant from the United States Department of State. The opinions, findings and conclusions stated herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.
