Chris Spackman

Resources for Technology to Support English Learners and Multilingual Families

Presented at G-Tech Summit, 2023 August 8

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The resources from our PD session, plus a few extras, are available here.

Resources from the session

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• Intro Survey (Google Form)
• Chris’s presentation slides (pdf)

Docs, Sheets, etc.

• Example of translating docs in MS Word¹
• A spreadsheet for translating to several languages at once, easily.²
• Presentation with a translation script / addon installed. Scary, but actually the safest.³
• Example of image OCR on Google Drive.

Fun with Forms

• Example of a Multilingual Form (2 Languages per Question) (Google Form)
• Another example of a Multilingual Form (Ask for Language) (Google Form)

Multimedia

• How to fix English captions in (your own) YouTube videos.⁴
• How to turn on auto-translate for YouTube videos.

Readings

• TESOL.org book: Creating Visually Effective Materials for English Learners — a great book on exactly what the title says.
• TESOL.org blog post: Tidying up your ELT (ways to declutter your teaching)
• TESOL.org blog post: design mistakes that teachers make
• List of books about instructional design at Bookshop.org

Lagniappe (something extra)

Below are links to some extra resources that I hope participants will find helpful.

• Every Sentient Being’s Guides⁵ to
  • technology (pdf)
  • password security (pdf)
• Several pages of useful keyboard shortcuts (pdf) from PD I did in 2021.