New Section Added to the Adult Literacy Education Wiki
A new section on developing professional wisdom and research has been added to the Adult Literacy Education (ALE) Wiki. Some of the sub-sections that may be found there are: active and proposed research, conferences, and connecting research to practice. To learn more about the ALE Wiki, go to: http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Developing_Professional_
Wisdom_and_Research
New Publications from NCSALL
NCSALL has made available four new online publications.
- Adult Literacy Research: Opportunities and Challenges by John P. Comings and Lisa Soricone
- Evaluating and Interpreting Research Syntheses in Adult Learning and Literacy by Harris Cooper
- How Do You Teach Content in Adult Education? An Annotated Bibliography by Elizabeth M. Zachary and John P. Comings
- Using Going Beyond the GED
- This 4-hour seminar introduces teachers and tutors to Going Beyond the GED: Making Conscious Choices About the GED and Your Future.
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Science Resources
Below you will find a variety of online resources that teachers may use in their classrooms to teach and reinforce science concepts.
NOVA Science Now Podcast
Stanford Solar Center
Michigan State University College of Education's LETSNet Science Website
Midwest LINCS Assessment from the Student Perspective
This website provides resources for teachers and students on testing and assessment from a student's perspective. Teachers may use this information to help prepare their students for what to expect in testing situations and to help alleviate test anxiety. To learn more, go to: http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/assessment/students.htm
Quizlet
Quizlet is an online tool for learning vocabulary in any content area. Some of the features that make it more than just another Internet flashcard website are that it keeps track of words that the learner knows and only retests for those that aren't known, word sets maybe shared, word sets may be imported, and it is multi-lingual. To create your own free account, go to: http://quizlet.com/.
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America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future
Published by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), this report looks at the future of American's workforce. The website dedicated to this report includes the full report, an executive summary, a PowerPoint presentation, and ETS's president's advertorial. To view the report, go to: www.ets.org/stormreport.
Jobs for the Future (JFF)
As a non-profit research, consulting, and advocacy organization, JFF works to strengthen society by creating educational and economic opportunity for those who need it most. Through partnerships with states and communities, national and local foundations, and other organizations, JFF accelerates opportunities for people to advance in education and careers. To learn more about the activities of this organization, go to: www.jff.org.
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Family Writing Projects
A Family Writing Project is a group of families who come together with trained teacher facilitators, creating a new community of writers outside the traditional classroom. Family writing projects commit time to writing and publishing works that are important to them and relevant to their lives. In the process, they benefit their communities while growing as writers. To learn more about this program, go to: www.familywritingprojects.com.
HIPPY
Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) is a parent involvement, school readiness program that helps parents prepare their three, four, and five year old children for success in school and beyond. To find out more about this program, go to: www.hippyusa.org.
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Building Basics: ESOL Toolkit for General Construction, Landscaping, Painting, and Plumbing
The Resource Center now has this brand new toolkit available on its website. To view the curriculum, go to: www.valrc.org/publications/buildingbasics.
Ask CAELA
The Center for Adult English Language Acquisition offers the feature of Ask CAELA. If you have questions about teaching adult English language learners, you may send your question to them for inclusion on their website. Ask CAELA questions and answers may also combine topics and questions of general interest from emails, telephone calls, workshops, and comments on electronic discussion lists. The current question focuses on workplace programs for immigrants. To find out more, go to: http://www.cal.org/caela/ask_caela/
English for All
English For All is a free web-based multimedia system for adults learning
English as a second language. Teachers may also create class pages on this site. It requires a free registration to use the site. To learn more, go to: www.myefa.org.
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UsingEnglish.com's Text Analyzer
Analyze text content using their free text analysis tool which gives you statistics about a text including word count, unique words, number of sentences, average words per sentence, lexical density, and the Gunning Fog readability index. To try it for yourself, go to: www.usingenglish.com/resources/text-statistics.php.
What's Hot in Technology?
Technology is constantly changing. It's often hard to keep up with the latest advances. Discover ways to stay current on the LiteracyTech Blog at: http://literacytech.org/blog.html.
Verizon Literacy Network
Verizon Literacy Network has put together an extensive library of information for literacy providers. Get information on such technology topics as participating in discussion lists, scanner basics, editing digital images, and many more. To find out what else is available, go to: http://literacynetwork.verizon.org/Technology.157.0.html.
Discover New Websites by Stumbling
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click on their website icon, they deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. The matches are created through an easy voting process of a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Rating the sites you like automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend. Registration is free. To explore this great resource, go to: www.stumbleupon.com.
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NIFL's Health Literacy Listserv
Recently Len and Cici Doak and Peter Houts moderated a discussion about the use of pictures for health communication. That discussion has been archived at: http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Health_Literacy.
Connect for Health
Health Information Partners is a coalition of public health, medical, library, university, community, and adult education groups. This unique team of partners brings knowledge from many fields to promote health. Health Information Partners (HIPS) brings reliable information to our communities to promote health literacy and health advocacy. They teach community members how to find and use online health information. Their goal is to lessen health information gaps that contribute to health inequalities. To learn more about this partnership, go to: http://connectforhealth.gwu.edu.
Healthy Roads Media
In partnership with the Virginia Department of Health, Healthy Roads Media has created a multimedia website on tuberculosis education. The information is available in video, audio, handout, and multimedia formats. It is also available in English, Spanish, Russian, Somali, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. There is also a section on immunizations that is very useful and is available in both English and Spanish. To learn more, go to: www.healthyroadsmedia.org/topics/tuberculosis.htm and www.healthyroadsmedia.org/topics/immunization.htm.
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