Following is a reminder from David Rosen about the Adult Literacy
Education Wiki. If you haven't visited the Wiki, go take a look. As you
can see from David's list of topics, there is much of interest for us
all.

 

Colleagues,

 

The adult Literacy Education Wiki* is a research and professional wisdom
volunteer community of practice for -- and by -- our field. It now has
over 900 registered users and has had several thousand visitors. It has
nearly 1000 pages of content -- of professional wisdom and information
about research in 33 topic areas:

 

     * Accountability

     * Action Research

     * Adult Learners' Self-Study

     * Adult Literacy Professional Development

     * Assessment Information

     * Basic Literacy

     * Classroom Practices that Work

     * Community Literacy

     * Corrections Education

     * Curriculum Development

     * Developing Professional Wisdom and Research

     * English for Speakers of Other Languages

     * Evidence Based Adult Education

     * Family Literacy

     * GED Research

     * Health Literacy

     * Learner Persistence

     * Learner Perspectives

     * Learning Disabilities

     * Numeracy Research and Practice

     * Participatory and Emancipatory Education

     * Program Design

     * Project Based Learning

     * Public Policy

     * Reading

     * Return on Investment

     * Standards

     * Technology

     * Transition_to_College

     * Workforce, Workplace and Worker Education

     * Women and Literacy

     * World Literacy and Nonformal Education

     * Young Adult Literacy

 

Visit the ALE Wiki at http://wiki.literacytent.org
<http://wiki.literacytent.org/>  Some of the topics have leaders; some
do not.  If you would like to be a topic leader, check out
http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Topic_Leaders

and then email me if you are interested.

 

*A wiki is a set of Web pages that can be read -- and easily added to.

 

 

David J. Rosen

ALE Wiki Organizer and Wikiteer

djrosen at comcast.net

 

Gail J. Price

Multimedia Specialist

National Center for Family Literacy

325 W. Main Street, Suite 300

Louisville, KY 40202

gprice at famlit.org

502 584-1133, ext. 112

 

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