NIFL List Colleagues,

The Adult Literacy Education Wiki ( see message below for more  
details) is looking for people who want to actively participate in  
and look after the following topic areas:

* Basic Literacy
* English for Speakers of Other Languages
* Adult Learners' Self Study
* Corrections Education

And, of course, we welcome your contributions to any of the topic  
areas (see list below).  If there is an adult literacy education  
research and professional wisdom topic which you would like to add --  
and help with -- please let me know.

More than 325 people have logged in to (and many hundreds have  
visited) the ALE Wiki, which now has over 550 pages of material on  
adult literacy education research and professional wisdom.

David J. Rosen
Adult Literacy Education Wiki Organizer
djrosen at comcast.net




> From: David Rosen <djrosen at theworld.com>

> Date: June 23, 2005 7:36:28 AM EDT

>

> Colleagues,

>

> The Adult Literacy Education(ALE) Wiki is a free, volunteer, online  

> environment for practitioners, researchers, adult learners and  

> others who are interested in the connections between research,  

> professional knowledge, and practice in adult basic education,  

> adult secondary education, and English language learning. Like  

> other wikis*, this is a text environment where you can read what  

> others have written, but also easily contribute your own knowledge,  

> opinions, findings, and observations. The ALE Wiki includes  

> discussions and resources on a number of topics ranging from adult  

> basic literacy, to assessment, workforce and workplace education,  

> and public policy. The current list of topics will be found below.  

> In the topic areas are selected discussions which have taken place  

> on electronic lists such as this one, summaries of these  

> discussions, links to relevant research, research citations,  

> bibliographies, glossaries of terms, and other resources.

>

> The ALE Wiki is a complement to electronic discussion lists; a  

> handy electronic reference shelf of definitions, research findings,  

> and theory; and other resources for selected discussion topics  

> which take place on adult literacy electronic lists.  It may also  

> be a good environment for discussions on adult literacy topics such  

> as basic literacy, young adult literacy, GED, or Corrections basic  

> education, which do not have discussion lists dedicated to them.

>

> Because a wiki is an easily edited document environent, current or  

> past electronic list discussions can be copied to it, continued at  

> any time, and referenced (and linked) in future electronic list  

> discussions.  It is also an environment where researchers can  

> describe their completed and ongoing work, see how practitioners  

> are reacting to or using their research, and see what questions and  

> issues practitioners and adult learner leaders think are important  

> to study.

>

> By design, a wiki is a participatory environment.  Practitioners,  

> researchers, learners and others are invited to voluntarily add to  

> and improve the ALE Wiki.

>

> To visit the Adult Literacy Education Wiki Main page, go to:

>

>     http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Main_Page

>

> To set up a log-in account, in order to add to the ALE Wiki, go to:

>

>     http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Special:Userlogin

>

> Discussion Topics

>

> 1 Basic Literacy

> 2 Evidence Based Adult Education

> 3 Adult Learners' Self-Study

> 4 Learner Persistence

> 5 Distance and Persistence

> 6 Corrections Education

> 7 Assessment Information

> 8 Adult Literacy Professional Development

> 9 Participatory and Emancipatory Education

> 10 Research to Practice, Practice to Research

> 11 Accountability

> 12 Public Policy

> 13 Technology

> 14 Workforce, Workplace and Worker Education

> 15 Classroom Practices that Work

> 16 GED Research

> 17 Family Literacy

> 18 Learning Disabilities

> 19 Numeracy Research and Practice

> 20 English for Speakers of Other Languages

> 21 Young Adult Literacy

>

> *wiki wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning "very very quickly" - wiki  

> alone means "quick."

>

>

> David J. Rosen

> Adult Literacy Education Wiki Manager

> djrosen at comcast.net