ALRC TECH TIPS
September 2015
Welcome to the ALRC Tech
Tips. We hope you find these
resources helpful. Please feel
free to contact us with any
topics for future Tech Tips.
Assist your fellow instructors
by sending websites or tech
ideas you find useful to Tech
Tips and they will be
published in the next issue.
Adult Learning Resource Center
2626 S. Clearbrook Dr.
Arlington Heights
Illinois 60005
Sue Barauski, Director
sbarauski@cntrmail.org
Barb Sabaj, Tech Consultant
bsabaj@cntrmail.org
Phone 224.366.8620
Fax 847.378.6225
ALRC is on the Web
http://www.thecenterweb.org/alrc/
The Adult Learning Resource
Center (ALRC) is a member of
the IL Adult Education Service
Center Network.
Volume 10, Number 1
Welcome back for another year of Tech Tips. These issues of Tech Tips are
designed to give you assistance in developing a digital classroom and helping your
learners increase their digital literacy, no matter the technology you have available.
This Issue: Digital Learning through FUN and GAMES
This first issue explores fun ways to increase integration of digital literacy into your
lessons. Many ideas are templates for PowerPoint that can be easily adapted for
individual instruction. Some of the games can be downloaded from the sites or
used directly online. They are:
PowerPoint Games for project learning created by teachers.
http://powerpointgames.wikispaces.com/
Games with multiple themes and useable in a variety of instructional areas.
https://be-a-gameshow-host.wikispaces.com/
Blank Jeopardy templates in which you can add your own information.
http://www.elainefitzgerald.com/gametemplates.htm
Jeopardy Game template for Earth Day.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp075.shtml
English skills games with some downloadable worksheets. Some games may not
be appropriate for adults.
http://www.marks-english-school.com/games.html
ESL games for all levels of learners and areas of instruction; online and printable
games. Be patient as the games take a while to load.
http://www.eslgamesworld.com/
Games for Advanced ESL and ABE/ASE learners. For example, the game listed
below shows the syllables and the user puts the words together. It can be
challenging. Be selective as not all games here may be useful for the classroom.
http://games.aarp.org/
Tech Tips Page 1|2
*Special Note:
If you create a Jeopardy
PowerPoint that you would like
to share, please send it to Barb
Sabaj bsabaj@cntrmail.org and
it will be linked and noted in the
next Tech Tips.
To learn to create your own
Weebly site to share
information, register for the
online course Creating a Web
Page for Instructional Use in the
Fall Online Professional
Development Catalog (see link
above or click on the Fall Online
catalog below).
A Weebly site created to give you a Constitution Jeopardy PowerPoint with a
category for the Illinois Constitution answers based on the Constitution test given
in Illinois. It also has some downloadable board games. The Constitution
PowerPoint, once downloaded to your computer, has a few free spaces to add
your own “answers” or you can edit the entire game to fit students’ needs. There is
also a file that can be downloaded with instructions for completing any Jeopardy
PowerPoint.*
http://adultedgames.weebly.com/
Holiday Sites: Games, Worksheets and Lesson Plans
Holiday sites are useful during the year for material that can be used for
remediation or enhancement. Have fun with these sites.
Holiday lesson materials designed for the ESL learner or anyone else.
http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/
Lesson Plans for different areas of instruction. It not only has holidays; it has
podcasts, vocabulary, lessons on US Presidents, etc.
http://www.freeeslmaterials.com/sean_banville_lessons.html
Holiday Lesson Plans for ESL and Civics instruction.
http://www.elcivics.com/holiday-lessons-usa.html
Holiday lesson plans and interactive lessons with worksheets for more than
holidays. The site includes math lessons, vocabulary and reading.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/holidays/
For Instructors:
Remember the ALRC offers many
PotPourri: An Array of Digital Literacy Ideas for the Classroom
professional development
sessions either online or face-to- While these sites are not necessarily games, they have useful information for other
face. Register now. Check The
types of instruction.
ALRC Fall Catalogs at:
CIVICS
http://www.thecenterweb.org/alrc/
Women in History
http://www.teach-nology.com/gold/new/animals/10women.html
Or
The Fall Online Catalog for In
MATH
Network programs only:
Analyze, compare, interpret, and convert measurements as related to distance,
http://www.thecenterweb.org/a
length, width, time, volume, weight, and temperature.
lrc/pdfs/catalog-onlinepd.pdf
http://www.commoncoresheets.com/Probability.php
SCIENCE
Healthy weight and healthy eating from the Center for Disease Control (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/healthy_eating/index.html
Send your tech ideas, quick tips, websites, or other ideas for instructors and
programs to Barb Sabaj bsabaj@cntrmail.org.
Tech Tips Page 2|2