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School / Work Affiliation: ESL Teacher Adviser, Division of Adult and Career Education, Los Angeles Unified School District and ESL Intermediate Low Teacher, Pacoima Skills Center

About Me: I have dual roles in the Division of Adult and Career Education: I'm an in-classroom teacher of ESL for adult immigrant students at Pacoima Skills Center, and I'm a teacher adviser at the division level in ESL programs. My main area of focus as a teacher adviser is training our division's ESL instructors in the use of and integration of technology in their teaching. In that role, I also collaborate with other teacher advisers in integrating technology into our ESL course outlines and other publications. Being a classroom teacher gives me the opportunity to experiment with the technologies that I learn about with my own students. For me, it's a perfect combination!

At 10:31am on March 14, 2012, nargeskamali said…: Does blogging diminish feelings of writing anxiety in EFL writing class or increase it? Because their works being read by others.

At 10:18am on September 22, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…: Hi Barry,

I know that videos brought into the session are not made part of the recording. This was a decision a year ago by Wiziq but now they're changing this.

Mark

At 10:00pm on September 20, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…: Hi Barry,

Wiziq is very easy to use. There are examples of students participating in public sessions, but I don't think full on presenting. In the private sessions I think there are examples of students presenting but they are, of course, private.

I think you should give it a shot. :)

The basic service is free.

Mark

At 5:31pm on September 20, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…: Hi Barry,

With your work in Technology Integration for your ESL students at LA Unified SD, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording you might find of interest.

Demo of WiZiQ Virtual Classroom by Mark Cruthers

Get your own Virtual Classroom

At 6:54am on May 17, 2009, Or-Tal Kiriati said…: Hi Barry. Sorry it took me so long to respond. Been away for a while. Thanks for contacting me.

At 1:29pm on October 16, 2008, Rachel Armour said…: Hi Barry:

Thank you very much for your interest. If you provide me with an e-mail, I would be glad to send you a full version free of charge.

At 1:05pm on February 29, 2008, Branka said…: Thank you, Barry. You do a great job bringing Web 2.0 tools to CA adult ed. Thank you for being a great role model for me and many of us.

At 11:31pm on February 14, 2008, jcalvert said…: Hi Barry,

It seems like the Random link in the teacher.pageflakes subdomain only links to other teacher.pageflake pages. That is a lot better than the regular pageflakes and something to consider.

Take care,
John

At 8:25pm on February 7, 2008, jcalvert said…: Hi Barry,

Have you seen http://teacher.pageflakes.com/? I think Pageflakes has fallen short of the goal. They have a custom set of flakes that are edu-centric when you open the control panel, but the browse flakes/pagecasts buttons are still available. I can't use that with students.

And you are right - the random pagecast link is still there. In other words, they haven't really done anything yet. Have you heard anything else?

At 10:00am on January 12, 2008, jcalvert said…: Hey Barry,

I'm pulling myself out of that rut! Thanks a lot for checking in, though, I appreciate it...