aclJohn's Functional Skills Finds

Great Questions List | StoryCorps

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, August 26, 2011 In : Communication

English, Social Studies and/or Functional (Key) Skills practitioners often encourage learners to interview a parent, grandparent, or community member as part of their communication skills learning. The Story Corps Great Questions List could provide learners with a framework of questions for those interviews.

The StoryCorps questions are suggestions for getting a good conversation going. Users are encouraged to use the ones they like and to come up with their own.

Categories include...

Great ques...

Spelling help | Spelling tests | Spelling games

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, August 25, 2011 In : Spelling

English spelling online course to help older students, teenage to adult, learn and improve their spelling.
This spelling course uses lists, games, tests to teach English spelling rules to help students and adults learn spelling.

Try the help, tests & games at http://www.spellzone.com/index.cfm.

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Excellence Gateway Skills for Life

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, June 17, 2011 In : Resources

LSIS are pleased to announce that all the materials from the ReadWritePlus site, which has now been closed, have been moved to the Excellence Gateway.

LSIS have changed how the content is organised and presented so that it's easier for users to find what they are looking for.

The materials, if you have not looked at them in the past, will be of interest to a wide range of practitioners in all settings, including...

Skills for Life;

Functional Skills; and

Key Skills.

For ...

MouseProgram

Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 In : ICT

MouseProgram, created by Lawrence Goetz 2008-2010, is very much a website for beginners to learn how to "Use The Mouse"

Visitors to the MouseProgram website practice using the Mouse, including:

Moving the Mouse;

Left Clicking;

Right Clicking;

Double Clicking;

Dragging and Dropping;

There is also an introduction to the elements found on "Online Forms", including using the mouse with...

Radio Buttons;

Check Boxes; and

Drop Down Lists.

The bonus for many may wel...

TelescopicText

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 In : writing

TelescopicText is primarily a set of tools...

for creating expanding texts showing how a simple sentence can be elaborated to become rich in detail;

for helping functional skills/key skills learners develop more complex sentences

The tools can be found by...

visiting http://www.telescopictext.org/; and

clicking Write in the navigation at the top.

Clicking...

Texts, also in the navigation at the top, users will locate selected texts; and

Resources provides access t...

Money Smart World

Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 In : Maths/Numeracy

MoneySmartWorld provides a wide range of...

money worksheets;

curriculum based lesson plans;

practical money management workbooks;

story books; and

informative articles

...specifically designed to help young people learn about money.

These resources are suitable for a wide range of ages.

Note: Many of the resources have a cost but, there are also lots of free resources to download, so take a look at http://www.moneysmartworld.com/!

Writing prompts

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, November 21, 2010 In : writing

CanTeach writing prompts website is for the Functional Skills practitioners who likes to encourage daily writing but struggles to find good writing prompts that will both engage the creative and the critical thinking skills of their learners.

The CanTeach writing prompt web site's list of possible writing prompts are open-ended and built around inquiry .

Scroll down;

grab a prompt; and

get learners writing.

Once the learners have finished writing, functional skills practi...

Writing prompts

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, November 21, 2010 In : writing

The CanTeach writing prompt web site's list of possible writing prompts are open-ended and built around inquiry .

Scroll down;

grab a prompt; and

get learners writing.

Once the learners have finished writing, functional skills practi...

Road to Grammar

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, November 21, 2010 In : ESOL/Language

Road to Grammar is a free resource featuring quizzes, games, and lessons for ESOL, ESL, EFL & Functional Skills learners.

Learners can work through...

a dozen practice activities;
five practice games; and
365 grammar quizzes - each quiz provides instant feedback and notes explaining why answers are correct or incorrect.

Road to Grammar also provides some downloadable resources for teachers offering...

discussion starters for English lessons;
lesson warm-up activities; and
...

ShutterCal

Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, October 25, 2010 In : Communication

ShutterCal is a free, calendar-based photography project where users can document their life and improve their photography skills at the same time.

From my experience, the older you get the quicker time flies! Imagine capturing one moment of each day in a calendar and adding appropriate comments. Then, in the future, Picture scrolling through time and remembering what was important to you, each day, back then.

ShutterCal, which is free, provides a free calendar account, which users fill ...

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About Me

John Dalziel

Liverpool

I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.