Send us your content

Send us a headline

Extra! Extra! News from the literacy and essential skills field is posted daily to NALD and NALD@Work. If you see news happening in your area or you come across an interesting story online, let us know by emailing [email protected].

Send us an event

NALD supports the activities of its partners by promoting provincial and national events in the fields of adult literacy and education, family literacy, workplace literacy and essential skills.

If you wish your event to be included in our events calendar, please send us an email. Information that is required:

Title of the activity
Name of the organizing group
Date and time
Location
Brief description
Registration information
Contact name and address information - including email and website

Send us a document

The NALD Library includes a vast collection of learning and research materials including over 3,700 full-text documents. To submit your document, send the electronic file to [email protected].

Send us a contact

NALD lists resource persons from national and provincial/territorial organizations involved in literacy and essential skills. To recommend an individual or to update a current contact listing, please email [email protected]. The posting requires the following information:

Name of organization:
Name of contact with that person’s title:
Organization’s complete street address:
Phone and Fax numbers:
Email address:
Website address:
Area of expertise: (if applicable)

Send us a website

NALD features live links to literacy and essential skills organizations across the country. If we’ve missed one you would recommend, please send your suggestion to [email protected]. We’d also appreciate your letting us know if you come across a website listing whose link is not functioning.

Send us a call for papers

Have a conference coming up? Seeking award nominations? NALD lists calls for papers, projects, proposals and nominations in a headline format that includes the deadline date. The headline links directly to the host organization. To submit an item, email [email protected].

Send us a newsletter

Start spreading the news: NALD is pleased to include on its website a vast collection of newsletters from national and provincial/territorial literacy groups across Canada. To submit your newsletter, send the complete electronic file to [email protected].

Send us a story

You as a learner are encouraged to tell your story. Through NALD’s Story of the Week, adult learners get the opportunity and the space to share personal stories of how they were able to overcome obstacles and improve their skills. By sharing your story, you will motivate others to write their stories. In this way, you demonstrate success and encourage others to learn.

Guidelines

NALD welcomes Story of the Week submissions from adult learners who are either enrolled in or have recently taken part in literacy or adult basic education classes. Please include the name of your tutor or instructor and that person’s contact information.
Ideally, stories are no longer than 500 words. NALD accepts different styles of writing, such as poems, short stories, essays and testimonials, as long as the stories are written by an adult learner living in Canada and enrolled in a literacy program.
Story writers are asked to submit, along with the story, a short biography which includes their interests.
A photo of the learner may also be included.
Stories submitted to NALD are not edited for accuracy, style or content but they must be written in good taste and be free of any form of discrimination.

Guidelines for creating and sending audio files of learners’ stories

Recording should be done by another person, such as a teacher or tutor, on a computer or with a digital recorder.
When recording a story, the room should be quiet with only the person recording and the learner who is reading present.
The story should be read by the learner from previously written text and it should take up to three minutes to read.
For digital recording of an audio story, you can use Adobe Audio or the recommended freeware Audacity.
When saving the digital recording, use MP3 or WAV and include it as an attachment in an email message.
The recording can be sent to NALD along with the text file of the story and a photograph of the learner.

How to submit stories

Please send stories to [email protected].