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 h6NBhO709423; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:43:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:43:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <0C604C80-BD02-11D7-8738-00039381D39E@theworld.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: "David J. Rosen" <DJRosen@theworld.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2970] RE: What's hot in Adult Education Software? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2596 Lines: 84 Hello Nixon, I agree wholeheartedly. One of the day-long workshops I do for teachers involves their choosing sites (sometimes together with me) and then evaluating them using a comprehensive set of criteria developed by the Children's Partnership -- for low-literacy,immigrant and/or low-income adults. Let me know if you would be interested in doing this workshop in in Riviera Beach. All the best, David David J. Rosen, Ed.D. Newsome Associates 7 Newsome Park Boston, MA 02130-4024 617-522-7020 DJRosen@theworld.com On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Nixon S. Griffis wrote: > David J. Rosen, > > Thank you for all your work on these two sites. I have only scratched > the > surface but see that you have truly the heart of a teacher. I believe > the > one of the next steps in education will be to better package resources > for > overwhelmed teachers to plug-in to. My district has millions of dollars > invested in technology which goes to waste. Teacher have neither the > time or > the inclination to wade thru the dross to get to the gold. What is > missing > is a connecting mechanism between that great mass of technology and > teachers. There need to be a filtering and packaging mechanism that > better > delivers complete lessons to teachers, ready made. The pessimists say > that > teachers have to show the motivation to plug in themselves. It is like > the > mountain going to Mohammed. It won't happen unless we figure out a limo > service to better serve teachers. > > Nick Griffis > Adult Education > Inlet Grove H.S. > Riviera Beach, FL > 561-882-9967 > > -----Original Message----- > From: nifl-technology@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-technology@nifl.gov]On > Behalf Of David J. Rosen > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:29 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2960] What's hot in Adult Education Software? > > > NIFL-Technology Colleagues, > > As many of you know, I am the author of Harnessing Technology > [http://www.alri.org/harness.html ] and The Literacy List > [http://www.alri.org/literacylist.html ] two Web-based resources for > adult basic education (incl. ESOL) practitioners. I am updating both, > and would welcome your recommendations. Have you bought software in > the past two years that you especially like? Do you (and your > students) have favorite instruction/learning Web pages? Tell us what > they are, and why you like them. > > Meanwhile, the DL discussion will continue if there are others who want > to add to it. > > David J. Rosen > NIFL-Technology Guest mdoerator > DJRosen@theworld.com > > >
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