In this first of a two-part webinar series on Extensive Reading (ER), John Allan and Sepideh Alavi, NLS mentors and content developers, explore the ER movement as an approach to language learning that encourages students to read at a comfortable level that inspires reading for pleasure, reinforces and strengthens the learner’s language foundation, and should build/boost L2 confidence as they progress through LINC levels.

The

In this webinar Marijke Geurts, LearnIT2teach mentor/developer and TBLV lead, explored how Avenue could be used in an IRCC-funded CLB 4-8 Employment Language Training Program.

Marijke looked at how to use resources such as the Avenue Binder and the available courseware to increase the focus on Working in Canada in the context of LINC themes.

Students benefit by learning English and becoming work ready at

In this webinar, LearnIT2teach mentor and developer Paul Carter showed Avenue teachers how to download, install, and use the free, open source, cross-platform audio editing software from Audacity. This software can be used to both create new audio files and to edit existing audio files. This session demonstrated how to:

– download and install Audacity

– record a new audio file

– edit an existing

Does module planning sometimes feel like going down a rabbit hole?

Do you find yourself looking around in wonder at labels like Sociolinguistic and Functional Knowledge?

And how can you incorporate Language Learning Strategies into your skill-building activities? In this webinar recording, Larry Iveson (PBLA consultant and regional coach) explains the different steps in module planning.

Larry is joined by New Language Solutions module developers,

In this webinar, LearnIT2teach mentor and developer John Allan introduced six ways teachers can improve accessibility in their Avenue.ca courses.

Good accessibility practices provide alternative interaction modes for learners and enhanced course consistency.

The rapid move to online learning and teaching last year left many teachers scrambling to find ways to connect with their learners.

This talk, by Dr. Deborah Healey (2019-2020 President of the Board of Directors of TESOL International Association), offers some lessons learned, including ideas that can be used in a face-to-face setting.

Topics include flipping the classroom (giving learners ways to prepare outside of

In this demonstration, three teachers from YMCA Newcomer Connections in Saint John, NB, Rhonda Kelley, Erin Stewart, and Marijke Geurts, show how they use the Avenue courseware to support their Canada School and Sector Specific Employment Language Training programs.

The show how they use the Moodle platform to engage their learners in blended learning and PBLA.

Learning Objectives: – see different ways teachers use Moodle/Avenue

Presented by LearnIT2teach mentor and developer, Jen Artan, this pre-recorded webinar looks at the features of the two learning management systems.

What does Google offer?
How does Avenue compare?
Are there functions that work better for our Adult Newcomer learners?
Customization features, learner analytics, PBLA materials and other features will be outlined and compared.

This webinar by LearnIT2teach mentor and developer, John Allan, guides participants through essential image editing skills.

Using a free, online tool., the skills practiced in this session can be applied to other photo editors.

TESL Basics for Language Volunteers (TBLV) team members Marijke Geurts and Matthias Sturm delivered this webinar about the TBLV online course, which offers basic TESL training and an orientation for volunteers working with newcomers.

After piloting the course, New Language Solutions now is looking for SPOs who would like to run this online training for their own language volunteers.

The course is about 15 hours

In this session, LearnIT2teach mentors and content developers Marjan Bateni and Paul Carter give Avenue teachers a guided tour through the PBLA module for CLB 7/8, Participating in Workplace Meetings.

The session demonstrates: – how to use the new PBLA module with your class – skill-building and skill-using tasks – assessment tasks and rubrics – files for in-class use – ePortfolio artifacts from the module

In this interactive webinar, LearnIT2teach mentor Jennifer Artan shows how to create, use, and share Google Jamboard.

Jen demonstrates how this interactive whiteboard is a useful tool for synchronous or asynchronous online classes.

She also examines the different ways that this tool can be used throughout the CLB levels and stages, and she explains how it can be used to create an ePortfolio artifact