[NIFL-HEALTH:4764] Re: Adult Literacy Education Wiki Update

From: Linda Shohet (lshohet@dawsoncollege.qc.ca)
Date: Thu Jun 23 2005 - 11:06:04 EDT


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David, May I include this on the Summer Institute "wiki" page?
Linda


On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:28:32 -0400 (EDT), David Rosen wrote
> Colleagues,
> 
> The Adult Literacy Education(ALE) Wiki is a free, volunteer, online  
> environment for practitioners, researchers, adult learners and 
> others  who are interested in the connections between research,
>  professional  knowledge, and practice in adult basic education, 
> adult secondary  education, and English language learning. Like 
> other wikis*, this is  a text environment where you can read what 
> others have written, but  also easily contribute your own knowledge, 
> opinions, findings, and  observations. The ALE Wiki includes 
> discussions and resources on a  number of topics ranging from adult 
> basic literacy, to assessment,  workforce and workplace education, 
> and public policy. The current  list of topics will be found below. 
> In the topic areas are selected  discussions which have taken place 
> on electronic lists such as this  one, summaries of these 
> discussions, links to relevant research,  research citations,
>  bibliographies, glossaries of terms, and other  resources.
> 
> The ALE Wiki is a complement to electronic discussion lists; a handy 
>  electronic reference shelf of definitions, research findings, and 
>  theory; and other resources for selected discussion topics which 
> take  place on adult literacy electronic lists.  It may also be a 
> good  environment for discussions on adult literacy topics such as 
> basic  literacy, young adult literacy, GED, or Corrections basic 
> education,  which do not have discussion lists dedicated to them.
> 
> Because a wiki is an easily edited document environent, current or  
> past electronic list discussions can be copied to it, continued at  
> any time, and referenced (and linked) in future electronic list  
> discussions.  It is also an environment where researchers can  
> describe their completed and ongoing work, see how practitioners are 
>  reacting to or using their research, and see what questions and 
>  issues practitioners and adult learner leaders think are important 
> to  study.
> 
> By design, a wiki is a participatory environment.  Practitioners,  
> researchers, learners and others are invited to voluntarily add to  
> and improve the ALE Wiki.
> 
> To visit the Adult Literacy Education Wiki Main page, go to:
> 
>      http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> To set up a log-in account, in order to add to the ALE Wiki, go to:
> 
>      http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Special:Userlogin
> 
> Discussion Topics
> 
> 1 Basic Literacy
> 2 Evidence Based Adult Education
> 3 Adult Learners' Self-Study
> 4 Learner Persistence
> 5 Distance and Persistence
> 6 Corrections Education
> 7 Assessment Information
> 8 Adult Literacy Professional Development
> 9 Participatory and Emancipatory Education
> 10 Research to Practice, Practice to Research
> 11 Accountability
> 12 Public Policy
> 13 Technology
> 14 Workforce, Workplace and Worker Education
> 15 Classroom Practices that Work
> 16 GED Research
> 17 Family Literacy
> 18 Learning Disabilities
> 19 Numeracy Research and Practice
> 20 English for Speakers of Other Languages
> 21 Young Adult Literacy
> 
> *wiki wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning "very very quickly" - wiki  
> alone means "quick."
> 
> David J. Rosen
> Adult Literacy Education Wiki Manager
> djrosen@comcast.net


--
Linda Shohet, PhD
Executive Director
The Centre for Literacy of Quebec
3040 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
Canada, H3Z 1A4
Tel.:(514) 931-8731, ext. 1411
Fax: (514) 931-5181
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