Thursday, April 17, 2008

Post #3

My project was web site development to facilitate the home-school connection for ESL families at Dormick Park.  The web site includes multi-lingual links: Korean, German and Punjabi to help new families to feel welcome as well as to  share important school information and updates. An audio/video gallery shares school special events and student oral presentations with family not living in Canada (especially good for international student families).  The web site also has learning links to the web for language development and English fun.  Recently, we added a blog to encourage written communication.  It seems to be going well judging by informal student and parent feedback as well as the number of hits on the site.  Next year, we would like to work more with ipods.

Kathleen Weinkam
Dormick Park ESL Teacher

1 comment:

James Klassen said...

I loved the stuff you are doing - it's a great start - keep it up!

James