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notebook.jpg (300×300) Welcome to my Electronic Notebook of Resources for English Language Learners (ELL). I created this site as a pre-service teacher; and, I hope it is a resource that may be valuable to all educators. An educator does not have to be a teacher--an educator may be an administrator, a parent, or even a student. One of my primary goals is to assist students in becoming self sufficient, boldly independent--to become self-educators. After all, one of the greatest lessons I have learned is understanding the methods and styles of learning that suit me best, including how to seek out information and people who possess it. In my search for online resources, I found ten websites that are provide many learning opportunities, especially for students studying English language.
I have included a rating system for each resource on a 1-4 star scale, a brief description, a brief impression, a url link, as well as a screen shot for each website. Enjoy!



Thursday, June 30, 2011

Genkie English

Genkie English ★★★★
http://www.genkienglish.net/games.htm

This is a high energy website. With roots in Japan, this is a thematic resource that could be the basis of a core program. It provides lesson plans, games, songs, ideas, materials, and approaches to learning English across broad age groups, preschool to high school. Genkie means fun, lively, or energetic in Japanese, and the founder of the program, Richard Graham is as genkie an instructor as I have seen. The site offers free materials as well as materials to purchase, a newsletter, curriculum, games, songs, talking pages, articles, and even live seminars. Mr. Graham started as a teacher and has now moved on to be an educational consultant. The site is also available in Japanese.

It is inspirational just to watch some of his clips. His energy and enthusiasm is contagious. This will be a great site to visit to get re-energized and fresh ideas. I applaud this site for offering so much material for free. If it works and the resources are there, this would be a great place to purchase curriculum materials and professional development materials. Games here are not online, flashed based, rather, they are described in detail in terms of steps of preparation and steps of the game itself. I looked at a game involving numbers and “bargaining.” Students role-play being buyers and sellers by negotiating a price for an object. As each side concedes reductions in price or increase in offering, they are acknowledging value differences in addition to number pronunciation and recognition. Users get to leave feedback on this site as well.

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