TESOL on the Beach

TESOL on the Beach is an Conference for ESL (English as a Second Language) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Teachers brought to you by: COFFS HARBOUR EDUCATION CAMPUS (CHEC) ENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTRE & COFFS COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE (CCCC) Pictured here is the view from one of the training rooms at Coffs Harbour Quality Nautilus resort.

Vivian Evans presenting a session on how you can connect with professional colleagues via the WWW using various synchronous and asynchronous onbline tools. Vivian shared what the ACE ELLN Online Community of Practice is participating in at statewide and at a national level. She focused some of her session on Virtual Conference rooms such as DiscoverE and Elluminate and the Asynchronous platform Communityzero(see some links below for more information)

Dorothy Waterhouse(AMES)ran a great session on Digital Story telling showing how to create Digital stories using Photostory3 with ESL students. Dot facilitated this session with a hands on approach where participants made a collaborative Digital story on possible topics and methods you could use with students. Pictured here is a participant from the crowd recording her groups brainstorm of ideas via the mic.

Sue & Pam (I hope my memory serves me correct) putting the lessons learnt with Dot on Photostory into practice.

Always great to catch up with fellow ACE Diamonds face to face. We have been working together online for 2 years now.. amazing how friendships can build online.