c.o.d. library esl/abe/ged faculty newsletter may 2012
thanks for another great year! resource roundup A quick look back at the 8 online resources we highlighted this year September 2011
Learning Express Library http://www.cod.edu/library/resources/ databases.htm
October 2011
Khan Academy www.khanacademy.org
November 2011 Wolfram|Alpha www.wolframalpha.com
December 2011
Grammar Girl http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com
January 2012
Vocab Sushi http://vocabsushi.com
February 2012
Simple English Wikipedia http://simple.wikipedia.org
wrapping up 2011-2012 As always, it’s been a pleasure working with ESL, ABE and GED faculty and students. I’m happy to have been able to include volunteers in my distribution list for this newsletter this year, and as a result, I’ve heard from a number of volunteers who have come in for tours of our collection. I’ve also had the pleasure to work individually with some new instructors and familiar faces. We saw about a dozen classes this year, both here on campus and on-site at our regional centers and various off-campus locations. Students in these sessions benefitted from tours of the Library, introductions to our website and research guides, hands-on experiences with resources such as the Library catalog and Learning Express Library, as well as activities and assignments. Many of these students left their class session with a Library card and confidence that the Library is a resource they can easily use. I will remember 2011-2012 as the Year of the Graded Reader. This year we started a major project to reorganize our popular (but endlessly confusing) collection of English language readers and graded readers. Now, the majority of these useful books are organized on the shelf not only by series, but by reading level. Students can now browse for books to match their interest and skill and find similar books in one easy to locate place. We also made these books easier to find online under the subject “Graded Readers”. We also received a great number of new Cambridge and Macmillan graded readers in the Library. Starting this summer, the Library will make class sets of 25 copies of an individual title available for instructor checkout. We will have sets at several levels from Starter through Advanced. Look an email announcement from me during the summer, or contact me directly with requests. This wraps up my fourth year of sharing Library news and ESL/ ABE/GED resources with you! I began by blogging over at http:// codlibraryell.wordpress.com/, ultimately moving the online version of the newsletter to the Research Guides where they sit along with other tools for instructors and students. I hope you enjoy the newsletter as much as I do! I always learn something new when I sit down and try to think about what I can tell you every month! Next year will be a little crazy with the beginning of the Library renovation project. I hope you will bear with us through the changes-- the end product will be stellar and we’re already looking forward to it. I will be sure to keep you updated via the newsletter. In addition to the physical changes in the Library, I’m sad to say that the ESL/ABE/GED Instruction Team will shortly be losing a member with the retirement of librarian and interlibrary loan coordinator Prema Ramnath. Prema’s been a great asset to the Library and the College and we’ll miss her greatly. The remaining members of the Instruction Team, including myself,
Peggy Curran, Kandice Krettler, Aaron Harwig and Nalini Mahajan look forward to working with you and your students next year.
March 2012 Google News
Have a wonderful summer!
www.news.google.com
April 2012
instaGrok http://instagrok.com
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Jennifer Kelley, ESL/ABE/GED Librarian * kelleyj@cod.edu * SRC 3043A * 630.942.2383