Come Read With Me!The deadline for the second annual Come Read With Me! contest was April 30, and this year 40 schools participated. This represents a significant increase over last year. Judges are in the process of making their selections, and winners will be notified early in September. They will then be honored at an awards assembly later in the fall when they and their schools will receive gift certificates for books. RECLAIM On the MoveAfter a lot of planning and looking, RECLAIM has found a new home. Over the summer, the RECLAIM office, resource centre and Learning Centre will move into our new location at 1443 rue Lambert Closse, which is only a three-minute walk from the Atwater Metro. The Learning Centre will move first, followed by the office and resource centre. The new location is clean, climate-controlled (air-conditioned in the summer, heated in the winter) and easy to get to by bus or metro. We are very excited to be moving into our first ‘real’ home, with everyone under the same roof. We are looking for volunteers to help with the packing and unpacking. Please call Rosie at 369-7835 to let her know if you want to help (no one will be asked to move furniture – we’ll hire movers to do that part of the job). Training for the Enhancement of Online Educational ResourcesIf you have browsed the NALD Literacy Collection (www.nald.ca/CLR/search/) recently, you may have noticed that some of the listings have a CASP logo which means that the document has been evaluated and is recommended for adult learning by literacy coordinators and instructors of the Community Academic Services Program (CASP) in New Brunswick. Each document has received a star rating, with 5 stars being the highest. By clicking on “See Practitioner Evaluation,” you will be taken to a page of information about the document. This information was provided by the evaluators, and includes details about the subject area, for whom it is intended, what format it is in and how appealing it is likely to be to students. An example is “A Caring Life – Our Lives” a 19-page booklet containing “…little short stories from Newfoundland with non-intrusive illustrations.” It received the full five stars and is at a “basic” curriculum level. There is no audio, but it is very visually appealing, well organized, engaging, and fun, in clear/plain language and an easy-to-read font. All of this information and more is available from the evaluation. The purpose of this project, called “Training for the Enhancement of Online Educational Resources,” was to make it easier for CASP instructors to find appropriate learning materials to use with their learners. This is accomplished by having all the evaluated materials accessible through one central location: www.nald.ca/EvalToolNALDResources/search/eval_list.asp. Since these resources are evaluated, centralized, and free of charge, this will also be helpful to other adult literacy learners and tutors looking for classroom materials. Another objective of the project was to help CASP instructors increase their skills in using the Internet through learning to search for online educational resources. They were also given the opportunity to work with and learn from each other, which helps to ensure that knowledge is shared and passed down to new CASP instructors, whether about individual resources or about the Internet in general. The “Training for the Enhancement of Online Educational Resources” project was funded by the National Literacy Secretariat. The Community Academic Services Program is a free community-based literacy
program for adults, customized to meet the needs of the individual learner.
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