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(//seeing Salisbury mentorees anytime during the week after classes - and going to the Port on Tuesday afternoons//)
 * SUMMARY OF PROGRESS - TERM 3**


 * __Cert III / IV Salisbury__ (Lidia Lipkiewicz and Susi Freemsith) - ALREADY FIRED UP! - FORUMS A HOT ZONE (since Sept 9 - 130 replies to 10 topics)**

Lidia has compelling and irresistible reason to use Forums. She's co-ordinating groups to work on student production of "Cinderella" to be performed next term. She's only on campus one day a week so moodle very useful in keeping in contact with students and updating progress of drama groups. Lots of stuff is already happening and students are getting really involved in the forum discussions. True, the students see each other in the classroom but the forums are generating a lot of emotional energy as well as enabling students to share their ideas and information re photos and links to websites.

Susi already has a taste for Moodle and has been adding activities to the class website for a couple of semesters. There are a list of things that she wants to know and we are gradually getting through them - using Flickr for photos of class events, using assignment tool to collect students' work and then linking to the website, adding students' photos to profiles, questions about Podzone + ...... Susi was amazed that some of her students had asked her to please add her lesson plans to the class website. ............Also Susi's recording Cinderella script will be linked to the website so actors have opoortunity to listen and practice their lines during the break.


 * __Cert I/II Salisbury__ (Lana Kitik and John Olekalns) - A TENTATIVE BEGINNING - BUT THEY'RE IN AND USING IT!**

John withdrawn - not interested (apparently students not very interested ?!?) .............................................!!!! Lana has taken the students into the website a few times now as part of their computing sessions. She's using the forum to ask for opinions about a class excursion next term. Also interested in using audacity with students to record short scripts that they have written this term and then to publish on the website.


 * __Port ESL and LLNP__ (Andrea Murrray, Liz Roarty, Bron Blight) - STARTING TO FIRE UP - NEARLY IN THERE - LET'S DO IT!**

Great start - very enthusiastic. True but also they're very busy with other things and an issue about access to computers. I've been seeing Andrea and Bron at the Port on Tuesday afternoons (Liz has been busy with the LLNP program which has just started). It's important that Andrea's Friday group get into the website at least once BEFORE the end of this term. Everything's ready - all students have logins, I have printed login intructions for all students and Andrea has added a discussion topic. Andrea's been teaching computing modules to ESL students for several semesters but as she said - mostly using ESL software programs - She says that Internet at Port has been very unreliable and so doesn't have confidence in using it with her students. I have offered to go into her class on Friday (last day of term!).

Students STILL haven't been in there yet. But once again a special student event is very motivating - Port ESL students hosted Regency students recently and organised entertainment and a morning tea. Now Andrea and Bron are excited about how to upload photos to Moodle and to show these to the students as soon as possible. Also becomes an obvious discussion topic. So we've created a Flickr account, uploaded photos and linked to the website.

No problems with logins or server - students very happy to see photos of their social event earlier in the week. They also went into the forum to write comments about the event.
 * [[image:Andrea_class.jpg]] || I had a great morning in Andrea's class - meeting the students and introducing them to their class website.

There were only 10 students (last day of the term) but very satisfying. Four students have internet access at home and were delighted that they could show the photos to their families when they got home.

Also talked about the TAFE ESL Hub and showed them the Salisbury class websites which they will have access to early next term. ||

Page 4 ESL Hub (connecting the class websites)