Students built the Web pages themselves with guidance from the instructor in the Computer Applications class. This project is designed to bring students together with their Friendship Families for work days at local community service agencies. While completing this volunteer work, students conduct interviews, take photos and, afterwards, write up their experiences, which are posted to the Web. When used with instructional materials and activities designed for ESL learners, computer simulations and games provide a rich environment for language learning. The unit of study ends with oral and written reports.
Students use their simulated cities, projected on screen, as a visual aid during their reports.
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