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[Technology 1096] Re: Last week - references and resourcesSilver-Pacuilla, Heidi HSilver-Pacuilla at air.orgWed Jun 20 14:19:18 EDT 2007
Hello all - I promise to post my full bibliography when the paper is approved, but in the meantime, here are some excellent starting points: The AlphaRoute site from Canada, all of their reports were very helpful (www.alpharoute.com <http://www.alpharoute.com/> ) - Nancy Friday represented their work in several posts last week OTAN's website has a great collection of articles, resources, and links related to technology in adult teaching and learning , http://www.otan.us/index.cfm?fuseaction=home Thank you Leslie, for posting the Project IDEAL site Expanding Access to Adult Literacy with Online Distance Education by Askov, Johnston, and Petty, a NCSALL publication has a wealth of references, available at http://www.ncsall.net/index.php?id=15 The CA Distance Learning Project has good recent publications, resources, and links at http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=whatis&pg=5 Thank you for sharing, everyone! Heidi ________________________________ From: technology-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:technology-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Leslie Petty Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 1:49 PM To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List Subject: [Technology 1091] Re: Last week Barry, I have been out of the office for several days and just jumping into the posts. Here are a couple of resources that might be useful starting points: * Project IDEAL has a Handbook of Distance Learning as well other resources available for download on our website (projectideal.org). The handbook is designed to help agencies think about issues involved in establishing distance education programs, including recruiting and orientating students, teaching and assessment. * Adulted Online has a free online self-assessment to help teachers determine what skills they need to to develop to be effective distance teachers (adultedonline.org). But it's not just a checklist. There are short video-clips of a master distance teacher discussing the ways in which distance and classroom teaching differing and offering teaching strategies. The assessment provides feedback on areas of strength and weakness and suggests resources for those seeking to develop their skills. As I clear off my desk a bit more I will try and pull together some additional resources. Good luck with your efforts! Leslie Petty Associate Director Project IDEAL The University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research Burkett, Barry wrote: Heidi, In your first post last week you mentioned that you had been doing research on distance learning. I know you said you did not have a bibliography ready yet, but would it be possible to get some of the Authors, Journals, Books or online resources you have been reading. The list does not have to be comprehensive, but a starting point would be nice. Thanks for your time last week. I enjoyed reading the thread immensely. FYI, for the past 5 weeks I have been working with low level literacy students using a class that was 1/2 computer based and 1/2 person to person. I started out with five students, one wanted one on one tutoring, and the other 2 stopped attending, but the two that did remain made decent gains according to the Nelson-Denny reading test. Barry Burkett, Adult Educator Thorn Hill Learning Center Frankfort, KY 502.223.3110 "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination" - Albert Einstein "While adult education should be viewed as a right, not as a stigmatized second-chance program for those who have failed or dropped from out school stystems, at the present time lifelong learning is only being given lip service" (Askov, 2000, p. 259) ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------- National Institute for Literacy Technology and Literacy mailing list Technology at nifl.gov To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings, please go to http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/technology Email delivered to lpetty at twmi.rr.com ________________________________ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.1/854 - Release Date: 6/19/2007 1:12 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/technology/attachments/20070620/ce71966e/attachment.html
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