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 g3FCubu13945; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:56:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:56:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <AB2D4406-506F-11D6-95F6-0030656A26C8@worlded.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: Jeff Carter <jcarter@worlded.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2379] Teachers and Web Publishing X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 3596 Lines: 93 Hello List, Welcome to this week's "virtual panel" here on NIFL-Tech, which I'll be moderating. (Don't worry, Emily is still here tending to the overall management of the list.) As noted last week, I've been involved in a couple of initiatives to help practitioners design and develop their own Web sites. This week we thought we would invite some of those folks to be guests here on the list to take your questions about Web site development. Again, 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 Ruth Estabrook Exeter Adult Education in Exeter, New Hampshire Maura Donnelly JFK, Jr. Institute for Worker Education/CUNY, New York City Veronica Leon and Berta Perez Even Start Multi-Cultural Family Literacy Program at Mary's Center Washington, DC They will be introducing themselves sometime today. Meanwhile, here's MY introduction: My name is Jeff Carter, and I direct education technology work in the domestic division of World Education (Boston, MA), which includes working closely with the New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC). <http://www.worlded.org> <http://www.nelrc.org> The idea to provide small mini-grants to teachers for Web publishing actually started before I started working here: Lou Wollrab, who works here in Massachusetts for the System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES), led the first effort back when NELRC was managing Eastern LINCS. Since that time we have continued, off-and-on, to run a mini-grant program for teachers up in this part of the country. The latest round was funded by the Verizon Foundation. I think it is safe to say that the purpose of the original mini-grants was more focused around producing meaningful materials for LINCS, but over time -- at least in my mind -- I became convinced that the value of many of these projects had more to do with the teachers and students engaging with the technology to build the sites, and not always just the finished "product." Our training, in fact, has evolved into something that seems to have much more to do with the issue of integrating technology into teaching than it does with Web site development. One of the things I hope we'll discuss with the panel this week is how working on these Web sites enhanced their approach to, and use of, technology overall. Our panelists were all participants in our last round of funding/training (last year). In addition to small grants, they also received two full-day, hands-on training sessions; Web hosting services (if needed); and technical assistance via phone and e-mail from what we referred to as our Web Publishing Committee, some of whom will be familiar to regular readers of this list: Janet Isserlis, (RI), David Rosen (MA), Jana Sladkova (NY), Abe Kreworuka (ME), Ralph Silva (VT), and Steve Quann (MA). More details at: <http://hub1.worlded.org/nelrctech/minigrants/> Thanks again to Emily for arranging the discussion this week. I look forward to it. Jeff Jeff Carter World Education Boston, MA (617) 482-9485 -------------- e-mail: jcarter@worlded.org <http://hub1.worlded.org/nelrctech> <http://www.worlded.org>
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