Coming Literacy & Technology EventsAlarm Clock

Technology Enhanced Adult Education:
-The 11th Annual ALT Conference
This conference is intended for those assisting adult learners with life, work and academic skills, including teachers, tutors and administrators. Conference organizers believe the title of this conference explains the theme accurately, in that the ALT Conference is not just about adult literacy, but about a number of issues, including the application of technology in adult education. The conference runs from July 28 - 31, 1998, at Michigan State University's Kellogg Centre. For more information on the 1998 ALT Conference, contact the Michigan State Literacy Resource Centre at Central Michigan University at (517) 774-1294 or email Deborah Reynolds at Deborah.Reynolds.@cmich.edu

ISTE's Tel-Ed 98
ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, will sponsor a conference on multimedia and telecommunications at dual sites - New Orleans, USA and Victoria, Canada, from October 29 - 31, 1998. Updated online information is available at ISTE's Web site at: www.iste.org, or by email at: teledreg@oregon.uoregon.edu

Between Standards and Diversity- 4th Annual Conference
The Manitoba Association of English and Canadian Council of Teachers of English Language Arts Fourth National Literacy Conference: Between Standards and Diversity will be held October 23, 1998 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. For information contact: Debra Radi, Conference Chair, Fourth National Literacy Conference, Oak Park High School, 820 Charleswood Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3R 1K6

How Does Technology Change Pedagogy?
The Winter Institute on Literacy and Technology: How Does Technology Change Pedagogy? will be co-hosted by the Centre for Literacy and Georgia Tech's Lifelong Learning Network in Atlanta, Georgia from January 27 - 29, 1999. For more information contact the Centre for Literacy, 3040 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec, tel. (514) 931-8731, ext. 1415 or visit their Website at www.nald.ca/litcent.htm

If you would like to have a notice posted for your Technology and Adult Literacy event, please contact us. The deadline for "Coming Events " submissions for the next issue of CONNECT is August 15, 1998.

Survey Results From Our February Issue..

  • 90% of respondents indicated that they use IBM/compatibles, while 10% use the Mac
  • 60% chose educational software reviews as the most useful feature in the newsletter; 15% chose lesson plans; 15% chose Technical Tips as the most useful feature and 10% chose Navigating the Web.
  • in almost all cases, respondents indicated that all of the articles in the newsletter were useful to a varying degree, depending on the way technology is used by individual literacy programs.
  • almost half of the respondents indicated that they were just beginning to integrate technology into the curriculum; 20% used technology solely for administrative purposes and communication, and only 30% indicated that technology was an essential part of the curriculum at this time.
  • some of the comments we received: "Your publication is super-excellent!" - "...a great resource for the literacy field, keep up the good work." - "A great source of information..." - "CONNECT is a much needed publication!" - "We look forward to every issue!"

Thanks to everyone who responded to our survey.

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