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Volume #1 Issue #3, October 1997
Published by the Continuing Education Centre,
Ottawa Board of Education, 515 Cambridge St. South, Ottawa, ON, K1S
4H9. Tel. (613) 239-2656 Fax (613) 239-2429 WWW:
http://www.nald.ca/connect.htm
- Editor: Pauline McNaughton. (http://www.obe.edu.on.ca/contweb/)
TECHNOLOGY AND CURRICULUM:
Designing Independent Learning
Activities using Computer Based Resources
Increasingly literacy teachers are encouraged to adopt more
learner-centered approaches to teaching in order to help students
move as quickly as possible towards achieving their goals. This is
resulting in changing roles for both teachers and students.
REPORT FROM THE FIELD:
Report from the Summer
Institute on Literacy and Technology 1997
The annual Summer Institute on Literacy and Technology held at
The Centre For Literacy in Montreal is an opportunity to hear
reports from the field both nationally and internationally.
SOFTWARE REVIEWS:
Explore Canada by Connie
Belanger, Ottawa Board of Education.
Explore Canada is a multimedia CD-ROM developed by New Media
Language Training in collaboration with Parks Canada. It presents
Canadian history, geography and heritage at a level appropriate
low-literacy Canadian adult learners and Low-fluency newcomers to
Canada.
"The Numbers Disc"
by Tom Ciancone, Toronto Board of Education
The Numbers Disc is a multimedia resource designed for use by
numerary learners and tutors. 1t is really two things: a program to
improve math skills and a tool to create your own audio/visual
slideshows
"Widget" by Lucy
Scanlon
As a'' adult educator who works with persons with
developmental challenges I am aluays looking for computer programs
that consider the special needs of learners. The Basic WlDGlT
program (Writing with Symbols) is a system of communication based
on pictures and it was designed for people who have trouble
deciphering regular text.
PLUGGING IN - ON
LINE SERVICES FOR LITERACY :
Navigating the Web:
The Lifelong Learning Online web pages offer information
related to family community and work resources for the adult
literacy student to explore complete with online reading exercises
and comprehension lessons. Visit this excellent web site.
TECHNOLOGY AND
CURRICULUM:
Lesson Plan: Text Editing
The focus of this lesson is to ensure that the student
understands linguistic applications such as use of uppercase
spacing and punctuation. The lesson will reinforce editing and
reading comprehension skills..
Lesson Plan: Word Bank
Database & Self-Evaluation
The students need to prepare for this lesson as it is designed
as a follow-up to a classroom based activity. Each student should have
a list of words that they have studied and are familiar with..
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