Weblog: February 2008
Students Can Create Comic Stips
Online Educational Comics Launched to Encourage Writing, Reading and Storytelling
An innovative, fun and free educational site for helping ESOL students practice writing, reading, and storytelling skills is available at Make Beliefs Comix.
This site can be used by educators to teach language, reading and writing skills, and also for students in English-as-a-Second-Language programs to facilitate self-expression and storytelling, as well as computer literacy. It is now being used in 160 countries by educators. Some educational therapists use it with deaf and autistic people to help them understand concepts and communicate. Parents and children can create stories together, print them to create comic books or email them to friends and family. Others will find the site a resource to be creative, calm down and have fun.
Try it out!
GED/ESOL Public Service Announcements on TV
The Henrico County Adult Education Center has just launched two public service announcements promoting adult education for GED and ESOL students. The videos have been uploaded to YouTube and can be accessed by search on the general site or the Virginia government channel of YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Virginiagovernment .
Henrico County Adult Education has done a great job in producing the segments which will run on NBC, Channel 12, in Central Virginia.
Check them out!