Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost.nifl.gov [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA23463; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 08:11:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 08:11:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4a8d4645.34952ce8@aol.com> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: RJurczyk <RJurczyk@aol.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1315] lit. online X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Inet_Mail_Out (IMOv11) Status: RO The following is taken from LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY (spring/summer 1997) Robin Jurczyk NIFL-Family list moderator ********** "Literacy Online and the International Literacy Explorer: Two New Electronic Tools for Literacy Specialists" The International Literacy Institute (ILI) is sponsoring two new electronic tools for literacy specialists---Literacy Online, a new website dedicated to providing useful information concerning literacy for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners worldwide, and the International Literacy Explorer, a multimedia tool for examining world literacy solutions in CD-ROM format. Literacy Online, which can be reached at www.literacyonline.org and is co-sponsored with the National Center on Adult LIteracy (NCAL) and promises to be a useful tool to help find specific literacy material in the sea of information that now makes up the World Wide Web. The International Literacy Explorer (ILE) CD-ROM will provide information in a more portable format. Case studies in six topic areas will be included: Rethinking Literacy, Language and Culture, Gender and Development, Teaching and Learning, Quality and Innovation , and Educational Technology. the ILE will also include a statistics database as well as numerous ILI/NCAL reports, and in the coming years is expected to be available in multilingual format. For more information, contact the ILE or visit our redesigned website (noted above).
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