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Here are the Christmas PowerPoints.

Here's a great  collection of tutorials for learning Picasa.

Here are some resources for using Smartboards:

CATESOL 2008 Smartboard workshop

Smart Technologies Smart Notebook Lessons page

Smart Notebook Activity creation guide (PDF)

Speller Software download- A free spelling activity addition to the Smart Notebook (This looks VERY COOL and makes me wish I had a Smartboard....)

Smartboard Teacher Exchange download site

Mr. Shurley ESL

Here are the Thanksgiving PowerPoints that Ernestina and Pauline made.

This week's reading is on the economic crisis. The reading is at Key News, and is called The Economic Crisis and Its Causes. I've made an MP3 for it and it's attached below. There is also a PowerPoint for the vocabulary words and the Word document version of the reading.

Here are some sites to practice filling out job applications  One is a county job site in California and the other is  a

Stratford Library

Marin County

Here are some links to help you write a cover letter:

How to Write a Cover Letter (Trinity College)

OWL on cover letters:

• Cover letter presentation
• Cover leter workshop
• Cover Letter Tips #1
• Cover Letter Tips #2
• Cover Letter Tips #3

Hwer are some job sies to explore:

• Los Rios Career Inventory
  
• SETA One Stop Job Centers
• Monster Jobs
• Sacramento Bee jobs page
• Craigslist
• Jobstar

Here are candidate sites and sites that provide information about the election:

•  John McCain
• Barack Obama
• Annenberg Foundation
• Annenberg Political Fact Check
• Center for Responsive Politics
• Democracy Network
• League of Women Voters

Here are some technology tutorials to help you master some of the fundamentals:

Word Tutorial: Online Technology Practice

PowerPoint Online Tutorial

Excel Tutorial