Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g38HUMu20190; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:30:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:30:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <A1064140F022D3118EBE0008C7919364025EB254@fegsmail1.fegs.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Hacker, Emily" <EHacker@fegs.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2376] Virtual Panel 4/15 - 4/19 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Status: O Content-Length: 6585 Lines: 159 Hello List, Our next special presentation on the Tech List will begin Monday, April 15. Jeff Carter, of World Education, will moderate a week-long virtual panel with five adult literacy practitioners who have developed Web sites and online class projects. Jeff's introduction for the panel is below. Please try to spend some time at the panelist's Web sites (links are within Jeff's message) before we get started on Monday. Thanks, Jeff, for organizing this exciting opportunity for us! --Emily ***************************************************************** INTRODUCTION -Jeff Carter, World Education As some of you know, over the years I've had the pleasure of helping practitioners around the Northeast part of the U.S. design and develop their own Web sites. These projects have included everything from publishing curriculum on-line to class projects where students worked on the design and construction of a site as a class project. I've been especially impressed over the years with the great ideas that teachers come up with for sites; sometimes, in fact, it's difficult to achieve some of the more ambitious plans. On the other hand, some projects, while initially modest, later morph into something bigger, or end up being a significant step towards better use of technology in their programs. In fact, sometimes I think that it's simply the experience of working on the site, and not the site itself, that is the most valuable part of the project. The experience not only improves a practitioner's technical skills, but may also serve as a catalyst for a the teacher or program to start using technology more extensively and effectively. Emily and I thought it would be interesting to ask a few of these folks to be guests here on the NIFL-tech listserv so you could learn more about their projects. While we've had guests on NIFL-tech many times, this will be the first time I think we've had a "virtual panel" of guests. The purpose of this discussion will be: 1. To learn why a teacher, or a class, would want to build a Web site in the first place. 2. To learn about what it takes (including skills, time, and other factors) to actually build one. What's the hardest part? Is it the technical know-how? Time? What else? 3. (Most important) To learn about the impact that working on a Web site project has on the teacher, student(s), and/or program involved. The panel will include: Eric Appleton The Fortune Society, New York City Site to look at for the discussion: http://www.fortunesociety.org/education/ and http://www.fortunesociety.org/computer Ruth Estabrook Exeter Adult Education in Exeter, New Hampshire Site to look at for the discussion: http://www.literacytech.org/users/estabrook Maura Donnelly JFK, Jr. Institute for Worker Education/CUNY New York City Site to look at for the discussion: http://hub1.worlded.org/docs/qb/default.htm Veronica Leon and Berta Perez Even Start Multi-Cultural Family Literacy Program at Mary's Center Washington, DC Site to look at for the discussion: http://www.literacytech.org/users/dcevenstart/ In addition, I suspect some other teachers we have worked with who subscribe to this list may also contribute to the discussion, as well as some of my colleagues here at World Education and some of the people who served on our Web-publishing committee, who helped shepherd these projects along. I will serve as the guest moderator for the discussion. The schedule for this discussion is 4/15-4/19. To participate, please take a look at the Web sites above between now and April 15. You may also want to read the following notes/articles on some of the projects: "Building a Web Site in an ABE Class" http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ncsall/fob/2000/donnelly.html Article by Maura Donnelly for the December 2000 edition of Focus on Basics, the quarterly publication of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. "Developer's Notes: Fortune Society ABE Computer Lab Web Site" http://hub1.worlded.org/docs/mg_report_appleton.html Eric Appleton reports on the experience of expanding the program's computer lab Web site to better address the needs of ESOL, reading, math and GED students, and offers tips to other teachers. On April 15, I'll re-introduce myself and ask each of the four panelists to introduce themselves and their projects. Then, for the rest of the week, they will be taking your questions. Feel free to ask both individual questions about specific projects, or general questions for the entire panel. Remember that these sites were built with very limited technical assistance (sometimes from a pretty dubious source too: me!), and usually with limited funding. On the other hand, I find the content and many of the ideas embedded in these projects extremely promising, and, as noted above, often the finished site isn't even the most important "product." I hope you will find the discussion both useful and thought provoking. See you on the 15th. 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