Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j5NBpLG01226; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:51:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:51:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <236365EC-AE69-4FC4-AA15-E8BFA40B38BA@comcast.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: David Rosen <djrosen@comcast.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10957] Adult Literacy Education Wiki Update X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O Content-Length: 3160 Lines: 78 NIFL List 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 Organizer djrosen@comcast.net
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