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.