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The following links lead to information about:Literacy, Language and EducationRelated/other sites Resources in SpanishSome of these links may overlap with content found on other
pages throughout
this site. These links provide an overview of site useful and
related
to adult learning, teaching and knowing Online resources -- Literacy, Language and EducationThese links connect to other literacy-related sites. ESOL and English language literacy and learning are grouped together among these site listings, and also appear on their own page within this site.Adult
Community
Education
- Australian websites covering a range of adult education areas,
including
aboriginal, disabilities, ESOL, general education and women Adult Literacy Education Wiki -
participant-built site addressing a range of ideas and issues in adult
literacy education. Literacy - From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia Adult Literacy Resource Institute Adult
Science and Numeracy - Special
Collection from Western/Pacific
LINCS. Blackstone Valley Chapter of Rhode Island Arc - The Blackstone Valley Chapter provides services and supports to persons with mental retardation and their families Casa Latina -
A community
program in Seattle providing education to help Latino seasonal workers
become economically independent. Includes a number of very useful
links.
Site information is available in Spanish and in English. Center for English Language Acquisition
(CAELA, formerly the National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE) Council for Advancement
of Adult
Literacy Disability-Related
Sites on the World Wide Web from the ARC
of the US website; also see LR/RI's dis/abilities
page
Education World offers a place to find the lesson plans and research materials. The site is updated weekly with new lesson plans and curriculum ideas, articles on issues of interest to educators. It also provides monthly reviews of education-based websites, available on line, and/or through email postings. This link brings you to the site reviews. Email Projects Home Page - see also links from Technology and Learning. Equipped for the Future: Standards Development for System Reform, aiming to improve the adult literacy and life-long learning system so that every adult has the opportunity to build the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to fulfill real-world responsibilites as a parent, citizen, and worker. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) links to all ERIC sites including links to the now decimated ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career and Vocational Education and ERIC/ACVE fulltext documents online; a new link to Digests, Trends and Issues Alerts,other resources and Trends and Issues Alerts, Myths and Realities, Practice Application Briefs, Practitioner File, ERIC File. Health Literacy - google search; a wealth of sites and information International Council for Adult Education International
Literacy Organizations - compiled by the National
Adult Literacy Database LINCS- four national sites linking regional programs and resources, including disucssion boards, regionally produced resources, and special collections, including civic participation and health and literacy. LiteracyLink is creating an integrated instructional system of video and online computer technology which will help adult students advance their GED and workplace skills. LiteracyLink also seeks to improve the quality of instruction provided to adult students by offering professional development resources and training to literacy educators, and provides general information to the public about literacy. Literacy
Assistance Center (New
York City) Literacy Tent - where collaboration lives. Interactive hub and hosting site for literacy workers and agencies. Go there. Participate. National Adult Literacy Database (Canada) National Alliance of Urban Literacy CoalitionsNational Center on Adult Literacy National Center for Research in Vocational Education National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy NCLE provides access to a number of resources related to literacy learning for adult and children whose first langauge is not English, including NCLE Digests, concise overviews of numerous topics and issues. National Institute for Literacy New
England
Literacy Resource Center - "home base" for the New
England
Literacy Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University One in a network of ten regional laboratories funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the US Department of Education, the lab's purpose is to promote school improvement through the collaboration of researchers with schools and their communities and serves New England, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Office
of Vocational and Adult Education - Adult
Education and
Literacy
Programs and Funding. Federal stats and links to the rest of OVAE read, write plus - comprehensive web resources for adult learning in the United Kingdom Rhode Island Department of Education SABES
(System
for Adult Basic Education Support) Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research on Adult Eudcation - links to international adult education resources and institutions. Tesol Online -including links to publications, advocacy information and professional development for teachers of English speakers of other languages. Utah Literacy and Adult Education Resource Center - Comprehensive site, contains links to a number of resources, and state centers. These links will bring you to sites that may have no explicit connection to literacy, but can give you a sense of the wide range of information available on the internet. Learners and practitioners have interests beyond 'literacy' per se; as well, literacy connects to all of these sites, sooner or later, in one way or another. Please feel free to suggest other sites to add to this page. GOVERNMENT, POLICY AND LEGISLATION RI. gov: Rhode Island Government Rhode Island Secretary of State's Public Information Kiosk Track legislation, identify your legislators, learn what's happening at the State House. Govtracker - searchable database of all RI state and local public bodies with contact information, membership, open meetings information, regulations information, upcoming elections and more.State Of RI General Assembly, includes links to information about state laws, including an explanation how a bill becomes law. US
Dept of Education - Grants and Contracts - information and
links
to the Federal Register and more ETA -Welfare to Work - US Department of Labor, Employment and Traning Administration site containing information about welfare legislation and welfare to work programming Over 70 agencies in the US Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. Guide
to U.S. Department of Education Programs and Resources Moving Ideas.org - The Electronic Policy Action Network .(formerly EPN) an electronic policy network) "... information and ideas about national policy and politics." Includes links to entities working on issues surrounding education, civic participation,, health, families and welfare. NHeLP- The National Health Law Program is a national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities. NHeLP serves legal services programs, community-based organizations, the private bar, providers and individuals who work to preserve a health care safety net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured low-income people LR/RI's page devoted to welfare issues
Community Development Handbook - introductory guide to community development and capacity building; designed primarily for those who have an interest in community development but who may not have an in-depth understanding of the concept, the process or the resources available across Canada. Community
Mediation
Center of Rhode Island CTCNet- The Community Technology Centers' Network DARE: Direct Action for Rights and Equality, Providence, Rhode Island Gimme Shelter! A Resource for Literacy and Homelessness Work by Betsy Trumpener for The Literacy and Homelessness Project St. Christopher House Adult Literacy Program, 248 Ossington Avenue Toronto, Ontario Canada M6J 3A2 (416) 539-9000 George Wiley Center - advocacy, poverty issues in Rhode Island KidsCampaigns - comprehensive website providing information and tools for people to act on behalf of kids, from volunteering to voting. Learn2.com - "the ability utility, [to] learn the things that make life easier and/or more interesting: ...from the essentials of life to the esoteric, from practical to just plain fun." LibertyNet -including Build-Com, a listserv established in Philadelphia by the Institute for the Study of Civic Values, to build a national network of people active in community organizations, human service agencies, the private sector,and government sharing ideas and information on strengthening neighborhoods and encouraging civic engagement throughout the country. Build-Com is the email list associated with Neighborhoods Online: National. Low
and Technology
and High Tech Folks - The Electronic Grange Network works to
provide
low and no cost access to technology and other needed resources to
communities
in northern Maine. See what they're doing, what the news and rumors
are,
as well as a more serious analysis of labor cutbacks at the Bass shoe
factory.
This is a prime example of what happens when people and technology
interact
in the best possible ways.
Jobs in Literacy
posted at the NIFL/LINCS site
Ocean State Online - RI reference / resource site Popular education:Education for social change - sites culled by about.com Paulo Freire - Brazilian educator whose practice has inspired and moved progressive adult literacy practice around the world. Racial Intervention Story Exchange - repository where students, teachers, employees, managers, and other concerned people can exchange stories of the ways in which they have intervened across racial lines. This repository contains encouraging and cautioning stories from other ordinary people, of all ethnicities, that describe what they saw, how they responded, and what resulted.The Right Question Project - a grassroots Somerville, MA-based organization developing and implementing educational and training strategies for people who have traditionally been disengaged from decision-making processes that affect them. Participants acquire concrete analytic and critical thinking skills that allow them to ask 'the right questions' to enable them to advocate for themselves, to participate in decision-making processes that affect them and their families, and to hold those decision-makers and decision-making processes accountable." Web networks community- Canada's online home for social change Youth
Development
and Research Fund/Team Youth - From Jesus Gomes, Co-Founder:
"We
are a group of young black and Latino professionals who are committed
to
helping at-risk youth develop options beyond the streets. We look
forward
to your contribution in terms of ideas, effective programs, innovative
curriculum, and promising practices." Rhode Island Community Jobs (RICOMJOB) is a public e-mail announcement list that seeks to raise the profile of meaningful work in Rhode Island by helping non-profit and public interest employers publicize openings effectively. Anyone seeking a job that makes a difference in Rhode Island can join the list. Any non-profit, government or private sector employer advertising a paid position related to the public interest or community concerns can post a free job listing. Positions must be paid but may be part-time, full-time or temporary. To join the list as a job seeker or to
post a
job as an employer go to: Rhode Island Community Jobs is supported by the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University and the Rhode Island Campus Compact. If you have questions about this service, please contact us at ricomjob@brown.edu FUNDRAISING, GRANTS, VOLUNTEERS Some of the sites also listed here can also be found at the Careers in the Common Good site; these sites address funding, volunteerism and other related issues.
Corporation for National Service
Funding updates for literacy programs
Volunteer Match - access to information about volunteer opportunities The Providence Plan Neighborhood Profiles - demographic and other data (useful for general knowledge and for grant/needs stats) The
Rhode Island Foundation US Department of Education: Grant and Contracts Information - including grant and funding announcements from the Federal Register and a searchable database ColorLines The nation's leading magazine on race, culture, and organizing Cursor - making sense of corporate media, with numerous links to alternative news and information sources MSNBC cable news site Re:constructions: Reflections on humanity and media after tragedy Rethinking Schools - a nonprofit, independent publisher of educational materials,advocating "the reform of elementary and secondary education, with a strong emphasis on issues of equity and social justice." Red Ink - A Native American Student Publication Cybertimes Navigator - the NY Times' Selective Guide to the Web from Navigator; "the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent was to give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose was to show people that there's a lot of fun and useful stuff going on out there." A Guide to Getting Started on the Internet For more internet resources, please see Internet 101. Searching the Internet To find information on the internet, you need a search engine. Google.com, Answers.com, Ask.com, (Ask Jeeves), and Snap.com are four of many; others are also described at Internet 101 on this site. Add a Site To suggest a site to add to this page, please contact Janet Isserlis at Literacy Resources/RI. back to top last updated February 24, 2008 |
