Hello bloggers, I am your administrator and I greet you from snowy Minnesota, land of the Northern Star. I am on this mission to discover technology tools I will use as an enhancement for teaching adult learners English language writing skills. The literacy writing course I propose to create will take approximately six weeks to complete having one week each for each module. Students will first learn the rules of conduct for learning online. They will learn rules of conduct about appropriate and inappropriate speech for online learning. Vulgarity and disrespect will not be tolerated. I propose this course will be a hybrid-blended f2f course (Richardson, 2010).
The first technology tool I find useful is the (LMS) Learning Management System (VL environment) called "Coursesites by Blackboard." On this site students will engage in online learning anytime and from anywhere. Moreover, I will provide them a teacher invitation to enroll in the virtual learning environment for this literacy writing course via email. In this domain I am able to provide informational material resources students will need to participate including multimedia such as videos and audio from within the applications of a Prezi or Voki avatar. Furthermore, in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint I will be able to develop course content to convert using Adobe Pro XI and Adobe Presenter 8 applications. The demographic for this learning solution are adult students with little to no writing skills experience or for those that need a basic refresher writing course. I will design, develop, implement, and evaluate training to include formative and summative assessment protocols that I can create via technology tools as describe earlier. I will help students that need email accounts get one.
The first lesson of the course presents learners with information about the various parts of speech in the English language. Learning parts of speech and techniques enable students to recognize, categorize, and utilize words properly within sentences such as nouns, adjectives, action, helping, transitive, intransitive, and auxiliary verbs, adverbs, prepositions, etc.
Furthermore, students will learn how to convert base words to different parts of speech by attaching suffixes. Besides that I will provide information and steps on sentence diagramming techniques.
The next lesson in this series consist of identification of the types of sentences such as declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory, Students will recognize by writing examples of each of these types of sentences and will use the appropriate punctuation needed for each. Moreover, writing simple, compound, complex, and compound complex sentences will also be a great learning adventure for ABE students.
For the last lesson of this English language literacy writing instruction, students will learn to write paragraphs with a main idea and supporting details. A second technology tool I propose is weblogging via "Blogger." Each student will learn how to develop their own Blogger blog.
Blogs are a meeting place to build community among learners, a place where students journal daily learning activities, and the place where they will share information amongst themselves. They can make a statement; ask a question; comment in response to each other's posts...agree or disagree to a post in a civil manner by being polite while backing up points of views from life experiences, scholarly journals, and peer reviewed books using APA style format, which will be included in learning activities from the material resources in the "Coursesites by Blackboard" virtual learning and f2f learning environments.
References
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and
other powerful web tools for classrooms (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin
Press.
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