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 h6LE45716041; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:04:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:04:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <00c701c34f90$32ee2a60$0100a8c0@Multivac> 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: "Tim Ponder" <tponder@zhost.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2958] ALT X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2442 Lines: 49 In a previous post Tommy B. McDonell asked: BTW, whatever happened to ALT? ALT as some of you may know, is the Adult Literacy and Technology Network (also known as ALTN). ALT has always been a loose group of people involved in Adult Literacy and Technology. Until several years ago, ALT held an annual conference each year. These conferences were organized and held by different people each year. For the last several years of the conferences, there was no start-up money available, so whomever presented the conference that year provided start-up finding, personnel time, deposits etc out of their own budget, hoping to make it back through the conference. As resources of all types have gotten tighter, it became harder and harder, then impossible to find someone in a position to do this. ALT had always been "run" as it were by a steering committee of people interested in Adult Literacy and Technology, and this group continued to look for opportunities to regain some of the momentum of ALT. In 2000, with the Sacramento County Office of Education as the lead agency, the ALT group put together a proposal to maintain the LINCS Technology Training Special Collection http://www.altn.org/techtraining/ and this proposal was funded. This group, coordinated by Linda Perry, has put together what I believe to be a fine resource. The project also kept this core group in communication with each other. Due largely to the work of David Collings and several others, ALT presented a series of pre-conferences and workshops at the AAACE conference in 2001. This service seems to be growing, and this year ALT will provide pre-conference sessions and handle the technology track at AAACE and ProLiteracy in November as well as COABE next April. This allows ALT to maintain a presence as well as possibly offer some technology sessions which might not otherwise be available to the field, and to possibly get back to a position of having a strictly technology conference at some point in the future, as well as look for other potential needs in the field related to technology and work to meet these needs. If anyone would be interested in more information or becoming part of the ALT workgroup, please contact myself, Tim Ponder tponder@literacy.kent.edu or David Collings david@collings.com . Thank you, tim -- Tim Ponder Ohio Literacy Resource Center/Midwest LINCS tponder@literacy.kent.edu 865-637-7074 http://www.midwestlincs.org
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