1. OTAN – What’s New and
Exciting
CATESOL Northern Regional Conference
Changing Tides: Transformative Teaching and Learning
November 13, 2010
Monterey Institute for International Studies
2. OTAN background
• Outreach and Technical Assistance Network
• Leadership project with CDE Adult Education
Office
• Around since 1989 (for 21 years!)
• 3 major components
– Electronic Collaboration and Information
– Instructional Technology
– Distance Learning
3. Getting Around on the Web Site
• Ed Technology and Media
• Teaching Tools and Resources
• Research and Reference
• People and Organization
• Laws and Legislation
• Funding and Jobs
4. Teaching Tools and Resources
• Formerly adultedteachers.org
• Lesson Plans
• Classroom Activities
• Sites to Use with Students
• and more…
5. Web-based Class Activites
• Polling and Quizzing with Polldaddy [link]
• Using VoiceThread for Instruction [link]
• Piclits – Get Students Writing with Visuals [link
]
• Using Glogster with Your Students [link]
• Sites for Creating Interactive and Printable
Exercises [link]
6. Moodle
• Open source course management system
• More like a free puppy…
• OTAN hosting for adult education schools
• Online orientation
• Have two wrap around courses:
– USA Learns [link]
– Advanced ESL [link]
• Moodle for Second Language Teaching by Jeff
Stanford [link]
7. ePortfolios
• What is the purpose of ePorfolio? [link]
• OTAN chose an open source platform
• Social networking oriented and user-centered
• Collection of artifacts presented in a variety of
combinations
• Artifacts: files, media, text, other
• Total control of who can view what
• Friends and groups
• Sample page
– YouTube videos, uploaded videos, RSS feeds [link]
8. Facebook
• Adult Schools create fan pages [link]
• ESL teacher creates a group for his learners
• CATESOL Group [link]
• Individual CATESOL Conference pages
• Groups and Fan pages [link] & [link]
Pages can only be created to represent a real organization, business, celebrity, or band, and may only be created by an official representative of that entity. Groups can be created by any user and about any topic, as a space for users to share their opinions and interest in that subject. Groups can be kept closed or secret, whereas Pages are intended to help an entity communicate publicly. Pages also allow people to maintain a personal-professional distinction on Facebook. If you're a group admin, your name will appear on that group, while Pages will never display their admins' names. Additionally, when you take actions on your group, such as posting on your group's wall, these actions will appear to come from you as an individual. However, if you post or take other actions on a Page you own, it will appear to come from the Page.
