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LR/RI produces a bulletin roughly every two weeks in order to inform area practitioners of news, events, and calls for participation and also as a forum for posing questions, issues and discussion topics. The current bulletin is posted below. To read previous bulletins, go to Bulletin Archives.21 July, 1997 Bulletin #15 Dear Colleagues, LR/RI remains open throughout the summer, as reading/discussion groups continue on Thursday afternoons and technology workshops run on Friday mornings. I hope you'll be able to participate. If you know of someone in your program who would like to receive the bulletin at home during the summer, please contact me at 863-2839 or at janet_isserlis@ brown.edu. Thanks.
Janet Isserlis ____________________________________________________________ NOTICES
SUMMER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES Two strands of professional development activities are being offered this summer. The technology strand is open to adult educators with limited previous experience with basic computing and internet use and whose programs have, or may soon have, access to computer and internet technology. These sessions take place on Fridays through August 22nd. Zach Franklin, a recent Brown graduate, is working with participants to help them develop computer literacy and assisting practitioners in learning basic word processing skills, using the inter net for email and access to the world wide web. We're also talking about our own interests as educators and as individuals (community members, parents, etc.) in addition to considering how and why to use technology in our classrooms. Sessions run from 9 to 12 on Friday mornings, with additional assistance available as-needed. If Fridays are difficult for you, and you would like to schedule alternate times to become familiar with technology, please contact LR/RI. Reading/discussion groups: On Thursdays, from 4 to 6 PM throughout the summer, I hope that you will find the time and energy to share insights and experi ences at the Swearer Center (25 George Street, Providence). You're invited to participate in a series of informal discussions around topics and issues that you identify. I encourage you to bring articles, questions and/or issues to the group, and/ or to call me if you'd like to facilitate/participate in a session around a particular topic. For this coming Thursday (July 24), please bring stories, poems or other materials to be used with adult learners. We're looking at ways of incorporating cultural and other forms of diversity into our classrooms, and welcome your input.
Flash! For the teacher sharing session on Thursday, July 10, these brief articles were reviewed: Cross-Cultural Issues in Adult ESL Literacy Classrooms, (http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/CROSS_CULTURAL.HTML) Race and Gender in Adult Education, http://coe.ohio-state.edu/cete/ericacve/docs/race-gen.htm and Adult Eduction: Social Change or Status Quo? http://coe.ohio-state.edu/cete/ericacve/docs/dig176.htm FAMILIES, TECHNOLOGY, AND EDUCATION CONFERENCE October 30 - November 1, 1997, Northwest Chicago, Presented by the ERIC System and the National Parent Information Network. The following announcement was posted to the NIFL family list on July 14th: "Just as the automobile changed family life and expectations, creating new opportunities as well as unexpected challenges, so are new electronic technologies changing the ways we raise and educate our children. This conference will provide opportunities to reflect on the nature of current and emerging technologies and on the ways they affect family life and the education of children. The impact of the Internet, new telephone technologies, television, and other media will be the focus of our discussions." Up-to-date conference information (for registration, for exhibitors' information, and a call for papers) is available at the conference web site, at: http://ericps.crc.uiuc.edu/fte/ftehome.html or questions may be addressed to Anne Robertson, program chair, at: arobrtsn@uiuc.edu [If you don't have access to email, but want more information, LR/RI can contact Anne Roberston.] Preliminary (and partial) list of topics includes Home Computers and School Performance, Applications of Technology to Linking Schools, Families, and Students, Equity and Young Children as Learners, The Role of Technology in Making the Most of Out-of-School Time, Beyond a Quiet Place to Study: REALLY Helping with Homework, Families, Education, and the Technological Age and Homeschooling and Technology, and Families, Empowerment, and Technology. (A more complete listing of speakers and topics is available through LR/RI). The conference is intended to be of interest to the many types of professionals who work with families, and to parents themselves, particularly: family support personnel, educators, corporate executives, media specialists, librarians, health care specialists, publishers, information systems developers, members of parent organizations, and individual parents. Additionally, Judy Wagner has posted this call for assistance: Susan Imel and I are putting together a proposal for a presentation at the Families, Technology, and Education Conference and need your help. We would like to talk about how family literacy programs that are run through adult ed programs are using technology. If you are using the world wide web, distance education or other innovative methods to present your programs, would you please let us know? We promise to give you full credit and will tell everyone about your wonderful ideas. (email: wagner.6@osu.edu) or ERIC Clearing-house on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, 1900 Kenny Road Columbus OH 43210-1090, 800/848-4815 (ext 4-7685); FAX:614/292-1260
from the Popular Education list serv (14 July//97) The Cryil Houle Scholars in Adult and Continuing Education Fellowship program is a fellowship award of $20,000 for two years to support research and field projects that advance adult education. To be eligible, one must be a citizen of a Southern African country, the US, Mexico or another Latin American country. The fellowship includes a scholars retreat where recipients interact and share, an internet global dialog and a research/demonstration project designed by the applicant. Applicants must have completed a graduate degree in Adult Education or related field after January 1, 1991. The application deadline is 9/15/97. For more information, contact LR/RI, or the program at hsp@uga.cc.uga.edu .
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