Congratulations to Ali!

Ma (Ali) Bowen, a recent high school graduate from China and student in VESL this spring, won the Brooke Brummit scholarship for a noncredit ESL student planning on enrolling in credit courses at MiraCosta. Ali will take credit classes starting this summer. She even tested into English 100!

Congratulations, Ali! Best wishes for continued success in your educational pursuits -- you'll love MCC and will be a star student without a doubt!

Term 4, Spring 2010 Students' Work

Special thanks to Shannon Ilas who, with ease and expertise, took over VESL class for me during my maternity leave.

Here are students' blogs:

Irasema http://irasemavesl.blogspot.com/
Federico http://federicovesl.blogspot.com/
Michael http://michaelvesl.blogspot.com/
Mabel http://mabelvesl.blogspot.com/
Juana http://mccesldsjuana.blogspot.com/ (also her blog for a past ESL Digital Storytelling class)
Remy http://dickensvesl.blogspot.com/
Leticia http://leticiaveslspot.blogspot.com/
Riya http://itsariyavesl.blogspot.com/
Ali http://alivesl.blogspot.com/
Maria http://marievesl.blogspot.com/
Vang http://vangvu57.blogspot.com/

I will be taking a hiatus from VESL while taking on a new role as assistant department chair. I ill miss teaching this course but feel confident that it is in good hands -- Eli Clarke and Jose Lopez-Mercedes will be team teaching VESL @ MCC in the fall.

Fall Tem 2 2009

This term, under the guidance of instructor Eli Clarke and me, the VESL class is participating in a class exchange with students in a VESL class in Malaga Spain. We are doing all kinds of career- and culture-related projects, including video, which can be viewed on the blog we are using for the exchange. Your comments are welcome!

Congratulations, Min Li!

VESL Student Min Li, pictured here with noncredit counselor Denise Plante, is recipient of the Brooke Brummit Noncredit ESL scholarship.

She won $500 towards her studies in credit courses at MiraCosta College for the fall. Min Li has an impressive background of career experience in her native China, as you can see in her video resume, posted on the blog she made for posting class work this term.

Congratulations, Min Li! We're proud of you!

VESL Class Spring 2009 Term 4

This term students completed a number of high-level projects. For one, students set up their own personal blogs for posting class work, using blogger.com.

Maki's Blog was voted best. See it at http://maki-myesldays.blogspot.com/ . Congratulations, Maki, on a job well done and best wishes for continued success in credit classes at MCC!

Students also made video resumes. Maria's video resume was voted best. You can see it on her blog at http://mysuccess-mary.blogspot.com/. Congratulations, Maria! Whichever company hires you will benefit from your experience and professionalism!

Students' blogs for this term:

http://mikimiki2009.blogspot.com/

http://vangvu.blogspot.com/

http://whoisthepartty.blogspot.com/

http://edclassenglish-odaysoro.blogspot.com/

http://hortensiasblog.blogspot.com/

http://felipeeleuterio.blogspot.com/

http://butterflyvesl.blogspot.com/

http://rodrigodragone.blogspot.com/

http://doravilla2008.blogspot.com/

http://eufemia-eufemia.blogspot.com/

http://rosas-mccveslblospotcom.blogspot.com/

http://ohernandez-mychristianlife.blogspot.com/

http://mysuccess-mary.blogspot.com/

http://andrey-mccvesl.blogspot.com/

http://3ahyda-mactep.blogspot.com/

Inspirational Career Story of Dr. Q

Dr. Quinones was an immigrant who started off as a field worker and is now one of the United States' top surgeons. Watch this motivational video of his story:

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Spring 2009 -- Term 1

This term, VESL students contributed to their own wiki pages on a class wiki. Projects included a self introduction glog on Glogster.com (that included videos of students introducing themselves), a paragraph summarizing the results of a color career quiz, a PowerPoint to practice participial adjectives, a timeline project on Dipity.com, and a career research project.

Good work, MCC VESL students!