Carol,

If you are still looking for the link to the software follow this....
http://www.nald.ca/tools/practitioner/practitioner.htm  Then click on
Software Evaluation. This will take you to another page, from there choose
View Software List... This page provides a snapshot of information about the
108 pieces of software that were evaluated in this project, including title,
rating, category and operating system. For each program listed, you can
follow the links to see the evaluation or to download the software. 

 

Sylvia Provenski

 

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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:32:39 -0500

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Hi--I'm not finding the link....could you please re-send it.  I'm very 

interesting in checking it out.  Thanks.

Carol T. Jones, Ph.D.

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801 Hamilton Street, Suite 201

Allentown, PA 18101

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> Jean



> Check out the following link to a great Canadian site that has a host of



> shareware and freeware that has been evaluated by adult literacy learners



> and practioners. Some of the software is for older computers such as those



> you have described. There are lots of great programs to choose from.



> 



> Enjoy!



> 



> Sylvia Provenski



> Director



> Assiniboine Community College Adult Collegiate



> Brandon, Manitoba, Canada



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> Subject: [FocusOnBasics 579]  Happy Holidays!



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> Hi Everyone,



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> I hope you all have a happy and rejuvenating holiday weekend! As you take 



> a



> break from your work, please give yourself praise for doing the type of 



> work



> that really makes a difference in the lives of so many others!



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> All the best,



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> Subject: [FocusOnBasics 580] What would you put on an ABE learner's



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> Hi all.



> My program has been blessed with a bunch of used computer donations



> from the Cristina Foundation. Before you get excited, these are older



> computers



> from companies and individuals who have upgraded. For more info, go to



> cristina.org



> if you'd like to get some for your program.



> 



> We initially used them to set



> up a lab in our center, and have been giving the extras away. Since I 



> still



> have extras, I would like to give some to my pre-literate Liberian refugee



> senior citizen ABE students to practice their skills when they are away 



> from



> class.



> 



> We typically reformat the computers with Windows and Microsoft Works



> and an antivirus/spyware program. They will have a standard internet



> connection,



> which we'll have to show the learners how to use.



> 



> What I'm looking for



> from you are some recommendations of websites or freeware you use in your



> center with your most basic level adults. If you know of some fabulous



> program



> that costs money, let me know about it and I'll see what I can scrounge up



> in the way of grant money. We are working as an all volunteer, no budget



> organization



> so I'm ideally looking for website recommendations or better still, stand



> alone software so they just need to point and click and won't need to deal



> with the internet.



> 



> Thanks for your ideas!



> Jean Marrapodi



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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:24:47 -0500

From: "Julie McKinney" <julie_mcKinney at worlded.org>

Subject: [FocusOnBasics 588]  FOB Article-of-the-Week: Studying ESOL

      Online

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Hi Everyone,

 

I hope you all had some kind of a break over the past week, and some

nice holiday festivities of one type or another! I didn't do an FOB

Article-of-the-Week last week, but will start back in today with one

that serves as another lead-in to our upcoming discussion of self study.

(Coming soon: January 15: "Concepts of Participation and Program

Support" from the latest issue!)

 

Studying ESOL Online

by Marisol Richmond, Marian Thacher, & Paul Porter

http://www.ncsall.net/?id=742

 

This is from issue 7C, which is about different modes of delivery of

adult basic education. In this article, the authors compare an online

delivery model to three others to explore the value of online study for

ESOL students. 

 

What kind of feedback have you gotten from students about online

self-study? What kinds of factors seem to make it work better?

 

All the best,

Julie

 

 

 

Julie McKinney

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World Education/NCSALL

jmckinney at worlded.org

 


>>> "Julie McKinney" <julie_mcKinney at worlded.org> 12/19/06 11:15 AM >>>


Hi Everyone,

A couple weeks ago, we featured John Strucker's article about

"attendance turbulence", looking at the prevalence of students stopping

class for a period of time, and a proposed support for this habit. This

stop-and-go attendance pattern has been studied for some years now, and

we will be discussing this concept in a guest discussion in January with

Steve Reder about his article "Concepts of Participation and Program

Support". To help prepare for this topic, I thought it might be

interesting to look at some research from 1998 and look back at an

article from issue 2A, which looks at Learner Motivation from different

angles.

 

Stopping Out, Not Dropping Out: 

Students and teachers may perceive withdrawing from a program

differently

by Alisa Belzer

http://www.ncsall.net/?id=417

 

This describes a study which followed learners until they dropped out

for a while and looked at their and the teachers perceptions of dropping

out. Please take a look at this and let us know what your impressions

are!

 

All the best,

Julie

 

Julie McKinney

Discussion List Moderator

World Education/NCSALL

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