| Vol.2, No.2 | FALL 1997 |
 By Priscilla George |
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Alpha Ontario has been funded by the National Literacy Secretariat for the project Access to Literacy and Language Training Materials. Priscilla George will now be working on this project a day and a half a week. She has conducted a review of resource material needs amongst literacy practitioners working with Native learners. This review included participation in the Native Literacy Planning Process (NLPP) and the Ningwakwe Strategic Planning and Visioning through the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (ONLC). It also entailed an analysis of information requests by practitioners through Alpha Ontario during the period March 1996 - March 1997. As well, Priscilla made several program visits and facilitated/attended workshops sponsored by the ONLC to hear from learners and/or practitioners what their resource material needs are. 
Based on this information, Priscilla ordered a large number of print and non-print resource materials. To assist literacy practitioners with a Native clientele in accessing those materials, Priscilla initiated a conference on AlphaCom, an electronic mail and conferencing system for the literacy community in Ontario. The conference is entitled “NatLearn”. The focus of the NatLearn conference is to provide a summary of the resource materials, along with approximate grade level of each, two one-hundred word samples from the resource, a listing of some of the issues covered, and a few suggestions for possible learning and follow-up activities. Alpha Ontario will send hard copy of the summaries to various literacy networks and programs, and publishers of pertinent newsletters. Further, Priscilla is available to facilitate workshops on the use of these resource materials with Native learners. How can you assist this project ? You can e-mail Priscilla at : pgeorge@gwmail.mtrl.toronto.on.ca to ask to be put on the mailing list, or to provide information about resources you have found to be effective with Native learners. Or you can leave a message for Priscilla at Alpha Ontario at (416) 397-5900, or Toll-free at 1-800- 363-0007, or by Fax at (416) 397-5915. It may be a few days before she can return your call, as she is at Alpha Ontario only intermittently because of other contract commitments. |
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 The NALD Newsletter Vol.2, No. 2 / Fall, 1997 |
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