Literacy Assistance Center / NYCPDC - Pre-Service Institute

Pre-Service Institute
Integrating the Internet into Adult Literacy

1) Discussion: Why use the Internet in Adult Literacy?

2) Main uses of the internet for instructional purposes

Activities for learners
Information
Publishing
Professional Development

Sample Resources

a. Activities for Learners

Sites for students right on the internet

Randall’s Listening Lab http://esl-lab.com/
Dave’s ESL Café http://www.eslcafe.com/
Action Mazes http://www.webcom.com/lbdavies/text/maze/index.html
American Memory http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
English Club http://www.englishclub.net/
English Town http://www.englishtown.com/master/welcome/default.asp?buffer=true

b. Information for Learners

Sites which may be useful as student resources

* E-square http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/esquare/whatnew.htm

Freespeech http://freespeech.org/
Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/
Freedom Forum http://www.freedomforum.org/
PBS http://www.pbs.org/
Adbusters http://www.adbusters.org/

c. Publishing

Student work and voices on the internet

* Natural Medicine http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/esquare/natmed/home.html

* Adult Literacy Inquiry Maps http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/IMaps.html

Boston Adult Learner’ Page http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/ltc/telecom/blob.html
Literacy South: Not by myself http://www.literacysouth.org/nbmf.htm
CUNY Queens Bees http://easternlincs.worlded.org/docs/qb/default.htm

d. Professional Development Resources for Teachers

Learning how to use the internet in instruction – sample lesson, guides, etc.

Surfing for Substance http://easternlincs.worlded.org/teachers/surfing/index.htm
Intercultural E-mail Connections http://www.iecc.org/
Eastern Lincs http://easternlincs.worlded.org/teachers/teachers.htm
SABES http://www.sabes.org/other.htm
Teaching and Learning with Internet Resources http://novel.nifl.gov/susanc/inthome.htm
E-mail projects http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm
Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult Literacy http://www2.wgbh.org/mbcweis/ltc/alri/integratech.html

OTHER MATERIALS

Evaluating Web Sites

Internet Tutor: Evaluating Web Resources http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les1/index.html
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/eval.html
Examples of Resources Evaluated http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalexpl.html
Multicultural Model for Evaluation Web Sites http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/net/comps/model.html
Evaluating Sources http://www.orst.edu/Dept/eli/july1996/html
Evaluating Sources Activity http://www.orst.edu/Dept/eli/aug1996/html

Other Literacy Resources on the Internet

PBS Adult Learning Service http://www.pbs.org/als

National Institute for Literacy http://novel.nifl.gov

Literacy Online http://literacyonline.org

Center for Applied Linguistics http://www.cal.org

Adult Literacy Resource Institute http://www2.wgbh.org/MBCWEIS/LTC/ALRI/alri.html

Annotated Webliography http://www2.wgbh.org/MBCWEIS/LTC/ALRI/webliography.html

This workshop was created by Jana Sladkova and Marguerite Lukes for the Literacy Assistance Center and the New York City Professional Development Consortium

Last updated May 23, 2000.