
Shelly Terrell
Shelly Sanchez Terrell is a teacher trainer, author, and international speaker. She is the host of American TESOL’s Free Friday Webinars and the Social Media Community Manager for The Consultants-E. She has co-founded and organized the acclaimed educational projects, Edchat, ELTChat, The Reform Symposium E-Conference and the ELTON nominated Virtual Round Table language and technology conference. Her prolific presence in the educator community through social media has been recognized by several notable entities, such as The New York Times, UNESCO Bangkok, Edweek, Converge Magazine, the United Federation of Teachers, the 140 Conference, Mashable, English Central, Tefl.net, and T/H/E JOURNAL. Her education blog, Teacher Reboot Camp, is ranked as one of the top 10 language teaching and technology blogs and the 50 best blogs for education leaders. In 2012 find her book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators published by Eye on Education and participate with over 7000 educators worldwide in this online professional development course that helps educators develop Personal Learning Networks and accomplish social media and teaching goals. Find her on Twitter, @ShellTerrell. Shelly has taught English language learners at various levels since 1998 in the US, Greece, and in Germany. She currently presents and hosts workshops on integrating technology effectively with young learners and adults. Shelly holds an Honours BA in English and a minor in Communication with a specialization in Electronic Media from the University of Texas in San Antonio and an Honours MA in Curriculum Instruction ESL from the University of Phoenix.
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Shelly Terrell on Thursday, October 22nd 2009
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Every week, I share my favorite websites in this weekly series! Don't forget to test these tools out. Some great Edtech bloggers will soon be visiting this series to share their top tools with you! If you want instant access to these fantastic websites connect with me on Google reader!
Timetoast
Students can create interactive and multimedia time lines like the one Read full article »
tags:
animasher,
Animation,
apps,
brainstorm,
digitalstorytelling,
edtech,
ESL,
exploratree,
GoAnimate,
graphicorganizers,
Iphone,
Iphoneapps,
links,
mashup,
story,
thinkingmaps,
timelines,
timetoast,
video
Posted by
Shelly Terrell on Wednesday, October 21st 2009
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When I first began teaching English to children at the beginner level of English proficiency in Germany, I had quite a challenge. You can read about my tips for surviving teaching EFL children in this guest post I recently did on Barbara Sakamoto's Teaching Village blog. In the US I had taught English to mostly adults, college students, and high Read full article »
tags:
boardgames,
children,
EFL,
ELL,
ELLs,
englishraven,
ESL,
ESOL,
flashcards,
podcasts,
TPR
Posted by
Shelly Terrell on Monday, October 19th 2009
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Have you ever come across a tweet that you really wanted to discuss and share with others? Here are the ones that grabbed my attention this week. I invite you to check out the rest of my favorite tweets in this weekly series, What Did They Tweet?.
Students Making an Impact
In my last post, I shared my desire to raise students Read full article »
tags:
collaboration,
comics,
comment4kids,
ELL,
environment,
filtering,
FollowFriday,
links,
mindmapping,
PLNs,
presentation,
Teachertuesday,
thoughtprovoking,
tips,
tweetdeck,
tweetseries,
Twitter,
video,
wiki
Posted by
Shelly Terrell on Monday, October 19th 2009
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On Twitter I had an intriguing conversation with Monika Hardy about the power of journals and the movie Freedom Writers. The movie is based on the true story of a teacher who made progress with her at risk students through journal writing. The movie demonstrates the impact Anne Frank's Diary made on the students who struggled with overwhelming issues, such Read full article »
Posted by
Shelly Terrell on Saturday, October 17th 2009
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Every week, I share my favorite websites! My goal is to post this weekly series regularly on Saturdays so you can test these tools out. However, you can get access to these fantastic websites as soon as I find them by connecting with me on Google reader!
Open Source Cinema
Open Source Cinema allows the user to join or propose video Read full article »
tags:
Animation,
blogging,
creativecommons,
edtech,
ELL,
ESL,
ESOL,
GoAnimate,
languagetools,
Lingt,
links,
mashup,
opensourcecinema,
video,
wordoff
What Did They Tweet? Oct. Wk 3
Have you ever come across a tweet that you really wanted to discuss and share with others? Here are the ones that grabbed my attention this week. I invite you to check out the rest of my favorite tweets in this weekly series, What Did They Tweet?. Students Making an Impact In my last post, I shared my desire to raise students Read full article »