ILT in Further and Adult Education

A huge collection of links to resources that can be used to support and feedback on English learning in Further Education (Functional Skills and GCSE)
Categorised by Level (FS E2, E3, L1, L2, GCSE) along with other categories such as R&D.  You are invited to add what you can. Compiled and created by Nicola Milton with other contributors.

Editor's note

There are some excellent feedback and marking sheets in here for Entry Level 2 FS Writing through to Level 2 Writing, along with very useful mock papers, progress review sheets and much much more!

A useful reference source for teachers and students of Functional ICT and Digital Literacy.

Report comment bank is a free, online report writing tool that will save teachers hours. Many functional skills teachers, like myself, have a large number of pupils to write reports for – this should make their life much easier in report season. There are over 20,000 report comments available so you should find something for your subject.

A video tutorial for creating Q & A activities in Tarsia

See our Good Software – Tarsia Formulator entry for more information about this excellent free educational tool from Hermitech at http://www.mmlsoft.com/

Note: follow the Tarsia tag to view the 20+ Tarsia resources available on skillsworkshop.

My blog, which focus on techniques (often, but not always e-learning based) which can be used in ESOL and Literacy/Functional Skills classes.

A brilliant and truly useful, free web based tool that takes a pieces of text and turns it into a complete lesson. Once you have pasted or typed in your text it takes you through it step by step, giving you the option of creating cloze exercises, vocabulary, grammar and comprehension questions.

Some good background info on teaching reading and comprehension strategies. There are also ILT links but note the site has not been updated recently.

A really fun site where you can create a short movie. Huge choice of characters and backgrounds. Then simply type your dialogue into the speech bubbles and choose your back ground music and you can create a short educational snippet in whatever subject you wish (or get your students to create one). Once finished you type in your email address and a link to the new movie is sent to you.
Recommended by Ellen Lessner, Abingdon and Witney College (thank you).