{"id":1819,"date":"2020-05-27T23:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2020-05-27T23:54:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:54:07","slug":"elllo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/27\/elllo\/","title":{"rendered":"ELLLO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By christopher clarke on January 19, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mobile education is excellent at embracing accessibility and global connectedness. Part of accessibility is providing experiences that fit into those short sections of free time we all hopefully get throughout the day. Between busy days and short attention spans, it\u2019s important to compress content into easy to access, quick, and mobile doses. When it comes to language acquisition, Elllo (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elllo.org\/\">http:\/\/www.elllo.org\/<\/a>) does a great job of that. Elllo stands for English Listening Lesson Library Online and it\u2019s a free site that provides thousands of micro lessons for learning English. The backbone of the site is a collection of one minute video interviews of people from around the world. Pick any country you want and there are most likely interviews from residents. It allows users to practice their english and learn about other cultures at the same time. A large number of the videos are personal stories that give the viewer a sense of authenticity and open a window to the region. The site provides transcripts to follow with every video, as well as comprehension checking questions, and games. There are viewpoint comparisons, worksheets for both students and educators, and daily news-related stories. The site showcases what is possible when a person provides open access to educational tools and invites an international community to contribute to the operation. One thing in the negative is all the ads shown around the site, but as this is a free site operated using the creator\u2019s free time, it is understandable why they exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By christopher clarke on January 19, 2019 Mobile education is excellent at embracing accessibility and global connectedness. Part of accessibility is providing experiences that fit&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/27\/elllo\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ELLLO<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71882,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileculture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}