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Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:169] Using LINCS Online Course
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Using LINCS -- a new online professional development opportunity from
Eastern LINCS -- is being offered this Fall free to adult education and
literacy practitioners (paid or volunteer; part- or full-time;
administrators, staff and trainers, too).
Through this course, participants will learn to use the National
Institute for Literacy's LINCS system to:
* Identify free literacy-related resources available online
* Access literacy related Web sites using LINCSearch
* Complete searches of cataloged resources that are available
through the LINCS system
* Access ideas and suggestions from any or all of the National
Institute for Literacy (NIFL) and other literacy-related online
discussion lists.
* Communicate with literacy experts through any of the LINCS
Special Collections Web sites
* Submit documents to any of the five regional LINCS websites or
the national site
* Easily access grant and funding resources
* Customize LINCS to users' needs
To benefit from this course, participants should be confident in basic
computer and Internet browsing skills as well as sending and replying to
email messages.
To learn more about the Using LINCS course and its development, visit
the Programs and Activities section of the Eastern LINCS Web site at:
http://www.easternlincs.org/programsactivities.htm
<http://www.easternlincs.org/programsactivities.htm>
To view a description and details about the course -- or to register
online for the Fall 2001 course session -- visit:
<http://www.wbtc.ciu10.com/eclass/courses/usinglincs.htm>
http://www.wbtc.ciu10.com/eclass/courses/usinglincs.htm
The course is also available for 2.0 Continuing Education Units with a
documentation processing fee.
LINCS is the Literacy Information aNd Communication System and is the
literacy community's gateway to the world of adult education and
literacy resources on the Internet. The goal of LINCS is to bring adult
literacy-related resources and expertise to a single point of access for
users throughout the world.
LINCS features multimedia curricula developed by practitioners, special
collections on major literacy topics, the latest literacy-related
research and statistics, opportunities for communicating with colleagues
directly and through on-line discussion groups, and the best
peer-reviewed ABE and literacy sites in the U.S. and beyond.
Mary Mingle
Eastern LINCS
www.easternlincs.org <http://www.easternlincs.org>
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within
himself.
Galileo {1564-1642 Italian Astronomer & Mathematician}
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