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 g3G46Bu02418; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:06:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:06:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20020416040127.70722.qmail@web21410.mail.yahoo.com> 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: maura donnelly <mdonnelly2@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2386] introduction X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 1780 Lines: 46 Hello everyone! My name is Maura Donnelly and I am a ABE teacher at the Adult Learning center (ALC) at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York. The ALC offers ABE, GED, ESOL and BENL classes to members of the community. The majority of my teaching experience has been with adults with very low levels of literacy. This year I am teaching a level one class- new and emerging readers and writers. I have always incorporated technology into my teaching practice- email, word processing, Internet research and website creation. We try to naturally weave technology into our current theme or focus. I built a web site with my level two class (http://hub1.worlded.org/docs/qb/default.htm) and wrote an article (http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ncsall/fob/2000/donnelly.html) about the process. Please have a look at that to gain some background knowledge about the project. I also intended on building another website with my class that focused the exploration of welfare. Because of the shifting demographics in my class, this website never happened. Feel free to ask questions about that process, and lack of progress. We all can learn from each other's mistakes as well as successes. Finally I would like to concur with Eric's comments concerning the perhaps less tangible or predictable outcomes of building a website with students. For my students this project was something that connected them to the class, to one another and to learning well passed the nine months the class was an entity. I didn't count on that but was tremendously overjoyed by this outcome. I look forward to chatting with you all over the next week. Maura __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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