ABE: Adult Basic Education

Source: Create Monthly Calendars Tool (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

Flickr Toys, also known as Big Huge Labs, is the Website for doing creative, fun projects with digital images that the user uploads, or by using Flickr images, Photobucket images, or entering the URL (Web address) for an online image.

By uploading a photo, a wide range of special effects can be added, including adding a museum-style matte, making a jigsaw puzzle from a photo, making a mosaic from several pictures, adding photo frames, giving a photo a Warhol effect (a la Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pop art—see sample below), transforming a photo into bead art, making a cube of photos, making a photo collage, and creating a pocket-sized photo album.

For literacy, ABE, and other classes, the site's other image tools can be used as the bases for writing and speaking assignments. The types of projects both instructors and students can do using the site are numerous.

For this activity, have students make a monthly calendar with a class photo.

Source: Motivator Poster Tool (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

For this activity, students will create a motivational poster from a famous quote or proverb using the Web site Big Huge Labs. As a follow-up, students can make an oral presentation or write a paragraph explaining the importance of this quote or proverb in their lives.

A blog is a web-log – an online journal for ideas and commentary. Blogs are considered Web 2.0 tools, meaning that they are not static Web sites, but rather a medium for online collaboration and sharing. You can use a blog to publish student writing, to collaborate on writing projects, and to create community.

Source: Breaking New Carwash Activity (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

Breaking News English is a Web site that contains numerous reading lessons on a variety of high-interest news items that have been put into simplified language for ESL and ABE students. The reading levels begin a level 4. The site's main page lists new entries, posted every few days in chronological order. If you are looking for a reading lesson on a specific topic, scroll down to the bottom of the home page where you can search for lessons categorized in the following groupings: Business English, Environment, Health, Lifestyle, Famous People and Gossip, Technology, and World News.

Source: California Career Zone Homepage (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

In this activity, students use the Quick Assessment interactive tool provided by California Career Zone to choose and explore occupational fields that interest them, including educational/training requirements and programs, and create a timeline identifying the steps required for entering this career/profession. This website has information and activities to assist self-awareness, exploring occupations, exploring colleges, finding a job and budgeting.