Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs

http://www.google.com/educators/weeklyreader.html

Below is a cut/paste from the site...excellent information

"Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way.

The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You’ll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.

On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher’s guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.

Getting Started

1) Download a step-by-step tutorial [pdf] for Google Docs.
2) Learn about the comments and revision features of Google Docs [pdf].

3) Download, print, and share the following articles [pdf] with your students:

With a Little Help From My Friends: The Gifts of a Writing Buddy
Writing's Top 10 Tips for Revision
Collaborative Revision Checklist
Individual Revision Checklist
4) Download our Educators Guide: Teaching Revision with Google Docs

After reviewing our activity ideas and Google Docs tutorials, you may develop your own lesson plans and ideas. We want to hear from you! We invite you to share your curriculum ideas with the Google Educators community through our Google for Educators Discussion Group."

ESL, General: Writing a Resume for ESL

http://esl.about.com/library/business/bl_jobs_resume.htm

Writing Your Resume Writing a successful resume depends on many factors. Here is a simple guide to the basics of writing a good resume including an example resume.
Writing a Cover Letter The cover letter should always be included when sending your resume or CV for a possible job interview. This letter of application serves the purpose or introducing you and asking for an interview. Here is an outline to writing a successful cover letter.

Both of the above cover the variety of experience, or sometimes lack of experience, that many ESL students find difficult to quantify. The tips, and samples of good resumes and cover letters, are especially helpful.

English for Business, Work and Other Special Purposes

Using the Internet to teach English for Special Purposes (ESP)

One of the best methods of teaching is to combine a skill within a usable context. For example, writing skills can be taught by teaching them in a business context. Other skills, such as vocabulary, can be taught by giving appropriate language used to actively participate in business meetings or develop core vocabulary such as 150 key words and phrases used for writing business and commercial letters.