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2025-03-22T05:08:50.984510
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https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/oerbysubjectpeerguide/chapter/__unknown__/
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| Credibility | Relevance | | Authorship | Publisher, Year of Update | Title of Open Textbook | Aim of Open Textbook Identified by Author(s) | Intended Audience | Topical Foci | | Anderson, R., RN, BScN, MN, Associate Teaching Professor, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops Doyle, R. G., MSN, BSN, Faculty, British Colu...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.036889
09-30-2024
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/oerbysubjectpeerguide/chapter/accessibilityinteractivityandlicensing/
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2 Accessibility/Interactivity and Licensing | Title of Open Textbook | Accessibility/Interactivity | Licensing | ||| | Figures and tables | a | Review questions | Total interactive H5P activities | Available for use with | | | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 33 activities – | || | ✓ | | | | || | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 92 activities – | || | ✓ | ✓ | ...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.054092
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/chapter-1-2/
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Grammar – Beginning Videos and Exercises Greetings Greetings – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Greetings Read and complete the conversations below. Type words in the blank boxes. Exercise 2: Greetings Click on the eight pictures and words below. Four pictures match four words. Find the pairs. E...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.074435
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/28/
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Grammar – Beginning Videos and Exercises Alphabet Alphabet – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Alphabet Exercise Put the upper case letters of the alphabet in order. Drag the letters to the correct drop zone boxes below. Exercise 2: Alphabet Exercise Put the lower case letters of the alphabet in ...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.095133
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/3/
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Grammar – Beginning Videos and Exercises Counting Counting – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Numerical Order: Put the following twenty numbers in numerical order. Number one and number twenty are already placed. Drag the other numbers to the drop zone boxes below. Exercise 2: Numerical Order Dr...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.111047
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/4/
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Grammar – Beginning Videos and Exercises Be and Subject Pronouns Subject Pronouns – Watch the video and complete the exercises Exercise 1: Be Verb Read the following sentences. Type the correct form of the “Be” verb in the blank boxes. Exercise 2: Subject Pronouns Click on the fourteen squares below. Find the picture a...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.124896
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/5/
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Grammar – Beginning Videos and Exercises Be and Questions Be and Questions – Watch the video and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Be Verb Questions Click on one of the three words in brackets to complete the question. Click the check button. Exercise 2: Be Questions and Answers Read the questions below. Answer the q...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.155073
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/7/
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Grammar – Beginning Videos and Exercises Have – Questions and Colors Have with Questions and Colors – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: To Have Questions and Answers Answer the questions below. Drag the answers to the drop zone boxes following each question. Exercise 2: Colors Click on the eighte...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.172383
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/8/
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Grammar – Beginning Videos and Exercises Time and Dates Time and Dates – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Time and Dates Matching Click on the twenty-six squares below. Match the numerical time or date with the image on a clock or calendar. Exercise 2: Order – Days of the Week and Months Drag th...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.185757
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/9/
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Grammar – Beginning Videos and Exercises Daily Routine Daily Routine – Watch the video and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Daily Routine Phrases There are sixteen boxes below with pictures and words for daily routines. Click on the boxes and find the pictures that match the words. Exercise 2: Daily Routine Question...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.199861
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/10/
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Grammar – Beginning Videos and Exercises Weather Weather – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Weather Statements Sixteen squares below show eight pictures of weather and eight words about weather. Click on the squares. Match the picture and the word. Exercise 2: Weather Dialog Read the conversatio...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.217063
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/1/
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Grammar – High Beginning Videos and Exercises Greeting a Stranger Greeting a Stranger – Watch the videos and complete the exercises below. Exercise 1: Greeting a Stranger Drag the words and phrases to the drop zone boxes following the sentences. Click the “next” arrow. There are five questions in this series. Exercise ...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.247125
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/2/
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Grammar – High Beginning Videos and Exercises Vowels, Consonants, Nouns, and Articles Vowels, Consonants, Nouns, and Articles – Watch the videos and complete the exercises Exercise 1: Vowel or Consonant Mark the following alphabet letters, vowels or consonants. Click on one of the words in brackets following each lette...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.259272
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/61/
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Grammar – High Beginning Videos and Exercises Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns Possessive Adjectives and Subjective Pronouns – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Possessive Pronouns Some of the sentences below have possessive pronouns missing. Drag the correct possessive pronouns to the drop zon...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.271604
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/5-2/
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Grammar – High Beginning Videos and Exercises Verb Be, Making Questions Verb Be and Making Questions – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Making Questions Turn the sentences into questions. Drag the words to the drop zone boxes to make a question. Click the check button. Click the next arrow to co...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.283225
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/do-does-questions/
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Grammar – High Beginning Videos and Exercises Questions with Do and Does Questions with Do/Does – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Have/Has Questions Read the questions. Drag answers to drop zone boxes following each question. Exercise 2: Have/Has Practice Read the story about a garden and a cat...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.306315
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/8-2/
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Grammar – High Beginning Videos and Exercises This/That and Calendar Vocabulary This/That and Calendar Vocabulary – Watch the video and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: This and That Read the sentences. Choose the word “this” or “that” . Click on the word between the brackets. Click the check button. Exercise 2: The...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.319092
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/9-2/
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Grammar – High Beginning Videos and Exercises Prepositions of Place and Time Prepositions of Place and Time – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: In, On, Under This exercise has three questions. The first two exercises might be extra difficult with a screen reader. Question 1: Drag pictures to the ...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.331188
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/10-2/
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Grammar – High Beginning Videos and Exercises Articles and Nouns Articles and Nouns – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Articles 1 Read the story. Click on the correct article found between the brackets. Use “0” for no article. Click the check button. Exercise 2: Articles 2 Read the story. Type t...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.343089
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/1-2/
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Grammar – Intermediate Videos and Exercises Pronouns, Adjectives, and Greetings Pronouns, Adjectives, and Greetings – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Pronouns 1 Read the story. Pronouns are missing in some of the sentences. Drag pronouns to the correct drop zone boxes. Exercise 2: Pronouns 2 Re...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.355312
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/2-2/
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Grammar – Intermediate Videos and Exercises Present Tenses and Parts of Speech Present Tenses and Parts of Speech – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Simple Present Continuous There are eight questions in this exercise. Follow instructions for each question. Click the “check” button. Click the “a...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.368040
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/2-3/
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Grammar – Intermediate Videos and Exercises Simple Past and Future with Be Verb Past Simple, Future, To Be – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Past Simple There are four questions in this exercise. Follow the instructions for each question. Click the “check” button and “next” arrow. Exercise 2: F...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.380719
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/4-2/
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Grammar – Intermediate Videos and Exercises Negative Sentences and Questions Negative Sentences and Questions – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Negative Sentences There are three questions in this exercise. Follow the instructions for each question. Click the “check” button and “next” arrow. Ex...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.406585
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/articles-indefinite-and-definite/
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Grammar – Intermediate Videos and Exercises Articles – Indefinite and Definite Articles – Indefinite and Definite – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Articles 1 Read the sentences. Click on the correct article between brackets. Click on “0” for no article. Exercise 2: Articles 2 Type the correct ...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.419946
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/quantity/
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Grammar – Intermediate Videos and Exercises Quantity Quantity – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Quantity Expressions 1 Click on the words in the brackets. For each word decide if it is “count” or “non-count” and click on the quantity word, “much” or “many”. Click the “check” button. Exercise 2:...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.432131
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/some-and-any/
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Grammar – Intermediate Videos and Exercises Some and Any Some and Any – Watch the videos and complete the exercises. Exercises 1: Some and Any Read the conversation. Type the words “some” or “any” in the blank boxes below. Click the “check” button. Exercises 2: Something, Anything, Nothing Read the conversation. Comple...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.444866
09-13-2021
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/esol23/chapter/preposition-time/
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Grammar – Intermediate Videos and Exercises Prepositions of Time Prepositions – In, On, At, with Time – Watch the video and complete the exercises. Exercise 1: Prepositions of Time There are three questions in this exercise. Follow instructions for each question. Click the “check” button. Click the “arrow” button to go...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.476743
11-7-2024
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/conversationalai/chapter/1-into-converstational-ai/
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Conversational AI Theory 1 Overview of Conversational AI What is Conversational AI? Conversational artificial intelligence can be defined is the application of computing technology to facilitate a natural conversation between computers and people. Conversational AI can be achieved using several different modes of commu...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.709520
11-7-2024
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/conversationalai/chapter/2-natural-language-processing/
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Conversational AI Theory 2 Natural Language Processing Developing a computer application that can accurately parse and interpret how humans communicate has been a decades long struggle. Natural language is defined as a language that has developed and evolved naturally, through use by human beings, as opposed to an inve...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.836176
11-7-2024
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/conversationalai/chapter/bert/
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Converstational AI Frameworks 3 BERT BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representation form Transformers and was developed in 2018 by Google. This NLP technique utilized pre-trained transformer type neural networks. There are different sizes of the BERT model to meet various use-cases and available computing resourc...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.848214
11-7-2024
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/conversationalai/chapter/gpt/
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Converstational AI Frameworks 4 GPT GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer and as of January 2022 is in it’s third generation. GPT is an auto-regressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. GPT-3 utilizes a total of 175 billion of parameters it is one of the largest publicly ava...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.905373
11-7-2024
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/conversationalai/chapter/natural-language-platforms/
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Converstational AI Frameworks 5 Natural Language Platforms Using an established Natural Language Platforms make it easier for developers to design and deploy conversational systems to users as well as helps developers reach more users and also the capability to interface to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Most natura...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.938527
11-7-2024
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/conversationalai/chapter/diaglogflow-overview/
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Google Dialogflow 6 Diaglogflow Overview To access Dialogflow you first need to have a Google account. Then you can navigate to the Dialogflow console which can be found here. https://dialogflow.cloud.google.com/ Once you are logged into the Dialogflow console (figure 1) you will be prompted to create a new agent. (fig...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.946970
09-6-2024
https://opentextbc.ca/adaptopentextbook/chapter/definition-of-adapt/
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What is an Adaptation 1 Definition of Adapt The term adaptation is commonly used to describe the process of making changes to an existing work. Though we can also replace “adapt” with revise, modify, alter, customize, or other synonym that describes the act of making a change. In addition to cost to students, one of th...
2025-03-22T05:08:51.959697
09-6-2024
https://opentextbc.ca/adaptopentextbook/chapter/reasons-adapt/
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Why Adapt an Open Textbook 2 Reasons to Adapt an Open Textbook One of the benefits of using an openly licensed textbook or other educational resource is that you are free to adapt it to fit your needs. In other words, you can adjust the educational resources to fit your course curriculum, not the other way around. Othe...
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Why Adapt an Open Textbook 3 Permission to Adapt When it comes to working with open textbooks (and open educational resources in general), one of the conceptual hurdles faced by most people is around the notion of adapting or changing someone’s work. What exactly can be adapted within the scope of an open textbook, and...
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Why Adapt an Open Textbook 4 Three Steps Before You Begin A good rule of thumb when creating an adapted textbook is to keep it simple, especially if you are approaching a remix project for the first time. While it may be tempting to make a number of major changes to a textbook before releasing it to your students, thin...
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Why Adapt an Open Textbook 5 Start Small An adaptation can turn ugly, like a house renovation project gone mad taking twice the time and three times the energy than you thought. To prevent from falling into this trap, consider starting small. For your first crack at an adaptation, decide to make a few minor changes suc...
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How to Adapt an Open Textbook 7 Find an Open Textbook Typically, most instructors begin their quest for an open textbook by searching the many established open textbook and OER collections available which are listed below. For more information, see Other Open Textbook Collections. Other methods to find open textbooks o...
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How to Adapt an Open Textbook 8 Evaluate an Open Textbook Open Oregon Educational Resources has developed three checklists–each designed for a specific user type–to evaluate individual course materials such as open textbooks. - Faculty Checklist for Evaluating Course Materials - Administrator Checklist for Evaluating C...
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How to Adapt an Open Textbook 9 Make a Plan Before adapting an existing book, it’s important to establish a road map that will guide the timeline of the work, layout and style of the work, and desired changes. Whether your adaptation is small or large, this step is important to ensure a cohesive and consistent final pr...
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How to Adapt an Open Textbook 10 What Are the Changes What will you change? Adapting or changing an existing open textbook doesn’t need to be onerous. The changes you make can be simple such as: - Changing the title of the book, some or all of its chapters or chapter sections - Adding one or two new images - Removing a...
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How to Adapt an Open Textbook 11 Attribution Statements All Creative Commons licences contain an attribution (BY) clause. This means that you must include a statement that gives credit to, or attributes, the creator of the work from which you have borrowed, whether it’s text, an image, a video, or other item. If you ha...
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Final Steps 12 Choose a Licence If you are adapting an existing open textbook, the adaptations you make will be released with whatever open licence you choose, while the rest of the book will be released under the licence of the original book. In other words, you need to respect the licence of the original work. You ca...
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Final Steps 13 Adaptation Statement If modifying an open textbook that is in the public domain, you are not required to attribute the original author. However, if you are modifying an open textbook that is licensed under one of the Creative Commons licences, then acknowledging the author(s) of the original work is requ...
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Final Steps 14 Publish and Distribute Once you’ve completed your adaptation, you will need to decide who to share your work with — your students, your colleagues, the bookstore and library at your institution, the open community — and how to do this. Also, what file types will you provide, what ancillary resources will...
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Courses in an LMS 15 Adapt Content in an LMS Adaptations need not be restricted to open textbooks. Many instructors prefer to add openly licensed content from an open textbook to an online course within a learning management system (LMS) such as Moodle or D2L. This is legally possible because Creative Commons’ open-cop...
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Courses in an LMS 16 How to Cite an Adaptation in an LMS Some instructors wonder how they should cite an open textbook that has been added to and adapted for a LMS. Here are some steps to consider. - - Assign a different title to the LMS version in order to differentiate it from the original open textbook using, for in...
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Challenges 17 How to Adapt a Restricted Textbook with Permission Some times, authors receive permission from a publisher to create a new edition/revision of a textbook or other work for which copyright is owned by the publisher and was previously released or published without the benefit of an open copyright (Creative ...
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Primary Navigation Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices. Book Contents Navigation About BCcampus Open Education Introduction 1. Definition of Adapt 2. Reasons to Adapt an Open Textbook 3. Permission to Adapt 4. Three Steps Before You Begin 5. Start ...
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Arctic Plants Learning Goals In this chapter, you will learn to: - Identify rhyming words - Copy short sentences - Read common sight words in a paragraph - Answer questions about a story - Give sentence answers to questions - Give an opinion on a reading Talk About It - Would you ever want to go to the arctic? Why or w...
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Canada’s Tallest Tree Learning Goals In this chapter, you will learn to: - Hear, read, and write words with long vowels - Copy short sentences - Read common sight words in a paragraph - Answer questions about a story - Give sentence answers to questions Talk About It - Have you ever gone for a hike? Where? - Do you hav...
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Grow Your Own Tomatoes Learning Goals In this chapter, you will learn to: - Hear, read, and write words with short vowels - Copy short sentences - Read common sight words in a paragraph - Answer questions about a story - State an opinion about a reading - Complete sentences by adding a word Talk About It - Do you have ...
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Tomatoes Learning Goals In this chapter, you will learn to: - Hear, read, and write words with digraphs (sh, th, ch, and ck) - Copy short sentences - Read common sight words in a paragraph - Answer questions about a story - State an opinion about a reading - Name some common symbols Talk About It - What foods can be ma...
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GM Food Learning Goals In this chapter, you will learn to: - Hear, read, and write blends with r, l, and t - Copy short sentences - Read common sight words in a paragraph - Answer questions about a story - State an opinion about a reading - Give sentence answers to questions Talk About It - Have you heard that people i...
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Val’s Garden Learning Goals In this chapter, you will learn to: - Print the alphabet in order using lower case letters - Read and write words with the endings -s, -ing, and -ed - Copy short sentences - Read common sight words in a paragraph - Answer questions about a story - Complete sentences by adding a missing word ...
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The Sack Garden Learning Goals In this chapter, you will learn to: - Print the alphabet in order using upper case letters - Hear, read, and write words with a short /e/ - Hear, read, and write words with a long /e/ (spelled ee) - Copy short sentences - Read common sight words in a paragraph - Answer questions about a s...
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Sweetgrass Learning Goals In this chapter, you will learn to: - Print the alphabet in upper case letters - Hear, read, and write words with a short /a/ and a short /i/ - Copy short sentences - Read common sight words in a paragraph - Answer questions about a story - Complete sentences with original ideas - Begin a sent...
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A New Flower Learning Goals In this chapter, you will learn to: - Print the alphabet in lower case letters - Hear, read, and write words with a short /o/ and a short /u/ - Copy short sentences - Read common sight words in a paragraph - Answer questions about a story - State an opinion about a reading - End a sentence w...
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Language Proficiency Intercultural Competency (Remove these instructions after reading) Instructions: Replace the placeholder artifacts and the descriptions with your own content. What is Intercultural Competence? “The need for language competence in a global society touches every sector of life. From career preparatio...
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Language Proficiency Presentational Speaking (Remove these instructions after reading) Instructions: Replace the placeholder artifacts and the descriptions with your own content. What is Presentational Communication? Artifacts Demonstrating My Presentational Speaking Proficiency Artifact Name, Course 2-3 sentence descr...
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Language Proficiency Presentational Writing (Remove these instructions after reading) Instructions: Replace the placeholder artifacts and the descriptions with your own content. What is Presentational Communication? - Creation of messages to inform, explain, persuade, or narrate - One-way communication intended to faci...
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My Skills My Skills (Remove these instructions and the placeholder skill inventory after reading) Refer to the Skills Inventory assignment you completed early in the semester. You will, in the format of your choosing (and please feel free to get creative), highlight your skills on your ePortfolio. You may choose to sha...
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1 What are Arrival Activities? Arrival activities are brief non-assessed opportunities designed to foster community, develop connections, gather feedback, and enhance student engagement during the opening moments of class. (Note that these activities pertain to the start of all classes, and not just the first class of ...
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2 Arrival Activities: Sparking Student Engagement & Fostering Community Arrival activities spark student engagement and can help to build a sense of community in the classroom. When we say student engagement, we mean “students’ willingness and desire to contribute and be successful in a learning process that leads them...
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3 Why are Arrival Activities Important? Research suggests that arrival activities deepen student engagement, strengthen motivation, build student enthusiasm, and foster community through social learning. In addition, these types of activities can increase feelings of connectedness between the instructor and students, a...
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4 Types of Arrival Activities Arrival activities fall into several broad categories: icebreakers, community builders, energizers, content-based activities, and gaming. They can be blended in order to bolster engagement, foster community, and build investment in the class. Arrival activities are purposefully low effort ...
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5 Advice on How to Incorporate Arrival Activities into Your Class When planning and building arrival activities: - Use the activity to set the tone that you would like to maintain for the rest of the session. - Test out your instructions on someone else – someone not as tech-familiar – and on multiple operating systems...
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6 The Importance of Inclusion and Accessibility There are many possible arrival activities that can foster active learning. The activities you select will depend very much on the actual students in the class. Most activities can be modified once you know who your students are and where your class will take place. Askin...
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7 Arrival Activity Slide Deck The associated slide deck contains a variety of arrival activities. We have focused on arrival activities that are used in an online context, wherein students reply by annotating the shared screen, or by participating in the chat, in a class back-channel, or through the course’s learning m...
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9 Appendix A: Resources from the Environmental Scan A selection of resources from our environmental scan are below, arranged by focus: General Resources and References - High Stakes and Low Stakes Assessment (2021). Instructional Resources. Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (Citl). https://blog.citl.mun.ca...
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Main Body The Most Amazing Structure on Earth Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Some people say the human brain is the most amazing structure on Earth. Our brain is so complex that it took about 700 million years to develop! The human being started out as a wormlike crea...
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Main Body The Many Faces of Genius Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Is intelligence something that is measured by success in school? Not always. In 1895, Albert Einstein wrote an exam to get into university. He failed all the non-science parts of the test. Yet Einstein ...
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Main Body The Many Pathways to Knowledge Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. We often think people are either born smart or they aren’t. But geniuses in writing, chess, music, sports, and so on, tend to share three things in common. First, they began learning their skill e...
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https://opentextbc.ca/abealfreader5/chapter/boost-your-brainpower/
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Main Body Boost Your Brainpower Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Many different factors affect how well we learn. While we can’t control all of these factors, there are many that we can. Below are 10 things we can do to help our brains work better. 1. Eat healthy foods ...
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Main Body Memory Magic Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Dave Farrow is a Canadian recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records for Greatest Memory. As a student, Dave had a learning disability called dyslexia. He found ways to improve his memory in order to do well in...
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Main Body Put to the Test Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Some students bring good luck charms to school on test days. They might keep a four-leaf clover in their pocket or wear a pair of lucky underwear. While these things can’t hurt, there are better ways of doing we...
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https://opentextbc.ca/abealfreader5/chapter/the-sixth-sense-intuition/
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Main Body The Sixth Sense: Intuition Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. A fire broke out in the kitchen of a house in Chicago, Illinois. A team of firefighters kicked down the door of the house. They stood in the living room as they sprayed water at the fire in the kitche...
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Main Body The Big Five: Personality Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. “Who am I?” It’s a question most people spend a lifetime answering. The answer often depends on things like our cultural background, gender, skills, jobs, hobbies, appearance, and of course, our person...
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Main Body Secrets of a Happy Brain Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. https://media.bccampus.ca/id/0_q8fex9vk?width=608&height=70&playerId=23449753 The human brain remembers negative experiences more easily than positive ones. Our brains may have developed this way becaus...
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Main Body The Story of Our Human Rights Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Human beings like us have been around for about 100,000 years. In the last 7,000 years, we have built a world with big cities, powerful governments, rapid trade, special traditions, and beautiful a...
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Main Body The Story of Viola Desmond Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Viola Desmond was an African Canadian woman from Nova Scotia. She lived in a time when black women were expected to be servants in houses, and black men were expected to be servants on trains. From a ...
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Main Body The Story of Nellie McClung Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. In 1882, a nine-year-old girl from the Prairies was at a community picnic. The summer sun was high in the sky. People sat on tablecloths spread over the green grass. They ate sandwiches and watermelo...
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Main Body The Story of Tommy Douglas Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. In 1919, Tommy Douglas was a teenager standing on a rooftop in downtown Winnipeg. He was looking down on a huge crowd of workers protesting low wages. They could not give their families a good quality...
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Main Body The Story of Joy Kogawa Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Joy Kogawa remembers her childhood home in Vancouver fondly. The house always had the smell of wood burning in the fireplace. The walls were covered with paintings, photos, and bookcases. The sounds of m...
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Main Body The Story of Jim Egan Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. At one time, the word “queer“ was an insult. The road to pride began with Jim Egan. Jim was born in Toronto in 1921. As a young man, he began visiting bars quietly known to be gay meeting places. He had t...
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Main Body The Story of Elijah Harper Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. An eight-year-old boy named Elijah sat in the forest with his grandfather. He lived on a reserve in Manitoba called Red Sucker Lake. His grandfather was showing him how to make a beaver trap. Elijah l...
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Main Body The Story of Gabor Maté Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. A baby boy named Gabor lay crying in his crib. No matter what his mother did, he would not stop crying. So his mother called the doctor. The doctor told her that all of the Jewish babies he knew were cry...
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Main Body Standing Up for Your Human Rights Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” What would you do if your human rights were being ignored? Many people want to stand up for themselves, but ...
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Unit 1: Mysteries in BC History Searching for Sasquatches Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. When you talk to a judge, you have to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. A man named Albert Ostman from British Columbia told a judge that he was once kidnapped by a ...
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Unit 1: Mysteries in BC History The Shooting of Ginger Goodwin Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. On a spring day in England in 1887, a baby with red hair was born. His name was Albert Goodwin, but his family called him “Ginger.” Coal was very important back then. Coal is...
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Unit 1: Mysteries in BC History The Gentleman Bandit Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. In the days before cars, people and goods travelled a long way on horses and trains. Horses and trains were easy targets for bandits looking to make easy money. Bill Miner was one of t...
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Unit 2: Snapshots of BC Culture All Together Now: BC Festivals Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. In places across British Columbia, people come together for festivals that celebrate the things that make their hometown special. Every year, about 20,000 grey whales swim pa...
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Unit 2: Snapshots of BC Culture Bold and Bright: Sook-Yin Lee Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Sook-Yin Lee has been called “a cultural Jill of all trades.” This means she can do a little bit of everything. She’s a musician, actor, writer, filmmaker, and broadcaster. Si...
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Unit 2: Snapshots of BC Culture Spread the Word: First Nations Languages in BC Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. The land we now call British Columbia is home to more First Nations languages than any other part of Canada. About 32 First Nations languages are spoken here....
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Unit 3: Wild BC The Rare Spirit Bear Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. There are lots of wonders in the Great Bear Rainforest. There are trees that are more than a thousand years old. There are waterfalls rushing off mossy mountains. There are wolves that fish — and ther...
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Unit 3: Wild BC The Journey of the Salmon Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. For many First Nations people in British Columbia, the salmon is a symbol of trusting your senses and working hard at your goals. Salmon sense the right time to leave the sea. Starting in the fal...
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Unit 3: Wild BC Spy-Hopping with Orca Whales Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Did you know that there are about 300 orca whales living off the coast of British Columbia year-round? Orca whales show up in many First Nations stories. In some tales, orca whales take people...
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Langston Hughes: A Poet’s Life Chapter 1 Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Many people think that poems are not for them. They may not have read a poem by a good poet. A good poet can make us feel less cut off from the world. A good poet can make us see the world with ne...
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Langston Hughes: A Poet’s Life Chapter 2 Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. Langston Hughes is from the USA. Not long ago, black people in the USA were made to work for white people. They worked long days for no pay. They were slaves. This is part of a poem Langston wrote...