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Biography Powerpoint Project developed by Shari Brown,
Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute
Bringing Technology Home Project: Digital Lending Library
developed by Caldwell County Even Start Family Literacy
Program
Using
the Internet
Tools
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Submitted by Lauri Stilwell, Caldwell
Community College and Technical Institute
Brief Description:
News for You Online.com
is an online subscription news source for students that
read at a beginning to intermediate level. Engaging
articles are based on world and national news events,
with seven new stories posted weekly for 48 weeks a
year.
Each article includes audio where
students can listen to the entire article at once or
slowly, sentence by sentence. Key words are shown in
bold with the definition appearing by just rolling the
mouse over the word. An interactive crossword puzzle
provides an opportunity for students to enjoy an online
activity while strengthening vocabulary skills. Each
article includes two sets of interactive exercises to
enhance understanding of the main concepts. Students can
immediately see feedback to their input if they choose
to. Subscribers can easily access articles at any time
since they are stored in a convenient archive on the
webpage.
Intended Audience:
News For You Online is designed for
people who are learning to read, write, or speak English
and are written at reading levels 3-6 and ESL levels
high-beginning and low-intermediate.
Publisher:
News for
You is published by
New Readers Press,
a division of
ProLite.
Cost:
8 weeks:
$49.95 ($6.25 per week)
24 weeks:
$139.95 ($5.83 per week)
36 weeks:
$199.95 ($5.56 per week)
48 weeks:
$249.95 ($5.21 per week)
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Submitted by Lauri Stilwell, Caldwell
Community College and Technical Institute
Brief Description:
EdHelper is an online subscription
service that provides printable worksheets for teachers
and homeschooling parents. EdHelper offers a wide range
of materials, including math, language arts, reading and
writing, social studies, science, and more.
Special education materials,
high school materials (grades 9-12), and the Class
Builder grade book are included on the site and
provide valuable resources for students at all levels.
Subscribers can choose from the
edHelper everything subscription, which
includes:
or the edHelper basic
subscription, which includes:
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Foreign language materials Middle school materials
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The ability to create, save, and edit word lists
that can be used to make personalized reading,
spelling, and vocabulary worksheets and puzzles.
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Reading comprehensions, literature units, writing
prompts, math, science, social studies, health, and
holiday theme units are also included.
Intended Audience:
Edhelper is great for teachers and
substitutes that have students of any age and
educational functioning level and serves instructors
well in public, private and community based
organizations. It is also commonly recommended to
parents and/or caregivers that home school.
Publisher:
edhelper.com is a domain with the
server location in Houston, TX, United States
Cost:
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Individual
Accounts: |
edHelper basic subscription – US
$19.99 per year
edHelper everything subscription – US $39.98 per
year |
School Licenses: (a minimum
order of five teachers)
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The cost of an edHelper school
license depends on the number of teachers, the
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How to
create and use a web quest
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Technology
in the Curriculum
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Tech 21
Project
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Video
Example
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Techtorials
for Integration
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Web
Toolboxes for Educators
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Web
Toolboxes - QuickStart
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Fill-in-the-Blank Web Tools
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Technology-based Learning Programs
Submitted by Lauri
Stilwell, Caldwell Community College and Technical InstituteBrief
Description: 26 videos
(DVD or VHS) in this series revolve around a city café where
six characters come together and discuss life in their new
country. With each new chapter in the lives of the
Crossroads Café characters, the language lesson provide an
integrated experience of listening, reading and writing
along with follow-up exercises in speaking. Crossroads Café
lessons emphasize language communications skills, not rote
repetition of vocabulary. Learners are encouraged to use
higher order thinking to look for layers of meaning, and to
use context in developing vocabulary skills.
Intended Audience:
Appropriate for teaching English as a second language (ESL)
in adult literacy and basic skills (pre-GED), workplace, and
correctional educational programs.
Publisher: In-Tele-Com (Intelligent Telecommunications)
Submitted by Lauri Stilwell, Caldwell
Community College and Technical Institute
Brief Description:
TV411
is a self-paced multimedia education program that is
designed to help adults gain the basic reading, writing, and
math skills they need to achieve their learning goals. The
series uses real-life topics to teach pre-GED level basic
skills in reading, writing, math, learning strategies, and
life skills. Each of the program’s workbooks has a related
half-hour video. Videos and workbooks may be used together
or alone. TV411 online materials supplement the workbooks
and videos with informative articles and self-checking
learning activities.
Intended Audience:
TV411 serves adults who read at the pre-GED
(5th to 8th grade) level and want to improve their reading,
writing, and math skills. Typically, they are motivated by
educational, career, and personal goals, such as earning a
GED, qualifying for a better job, or effectively managing
their family’s finances and healthcare.
Publisher:
ALMA (Literacy Media Alliance)
Submitted by Lauri Stilwell, Caldwell
Community College and Technical Institute
Brief Description:
These two series combine distinctive aspects of television
drama and
documentary to present real life and engaging stories of
families struggling to improve themselves and their position
in the larger community.
The video and print
materials provide teachers and adult learners a rich variety
of activities that encourage problem solving, promote
critical thinking, build vocabulary and language awareness,
develop reading, writing and numeracy skills, and empower
the adult as a parent, worker, or member of the community.
The result is a
synergistic approach to learning that encourages the adult
learner to spend “time on task” and to achieve significant
and meaningful learning gains whether in the classroom or in
a distance learning setting.
Intended Audience:
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Low literacy at-risk families
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Parents of children involved in Even
Start, Head Start and other early childhood education
programs
Adults involved in or needing ABE programs
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At-risk youth
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Teenage parents
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Limited English proficient
adults at the intermediate and advanced levels
Publisher:
In-Tele-Com (Intelligent Telecommunications)
Submitted by Lauri Stilwell, Caldwell
Community College and Technical Institute
Brief
Description:
A web-based
learning product and comprehensive resource,
My Skills Tutor is designed to supplement classroom
instruction with online practice. Students receive a My
Skills Tutor login and password and can access and complete
the prescriptive lessons and assessments from school or
home. My Skills Tutor is individualized so students are
able to use the program at their own pace, targeting
specific skills.
Intended Audience:
My Skills Tutor has lessons
for all educational functioning levels in reading, writing,
math, science as well as career skills and is appropriate
for students in any setting where internet is available.
Publisher:
Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology,
Cost:
3 Year License for 8 Modules of
Curriculum, $15,185, Stimulus Pricing = $12,115
3 Year License for 14 Modules of
Curriculum $22,975, Stimulus Pricing = $18,495
3 Year License for all 25 Modules of
Curriculum $37,995, Stimulus Pricing = $29,995
Pre-GED
Online, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Submitted by Lauri Stilwell, Caldwell
Community College and Technical Institute
Pre-GED
Online provides interactive instruction in reading, writing,
math, science and social studies for students who are at an
ABE level (TABE 6-8.9). Each subject area begins with a
pretest so students can assess their strengths and
weaknesses. The students are assigned online lessons
designed to improve their skills and their understanding of
content. There is a site license fee of $6,600 and seats
are $27 per year.
GED
Online,
McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Submitted by Lauri Stilwell, Caldwell
Community College and Technical Institute
GED Online
provides interactive instruction in reading, writing, math,
science and social studies for students who are preparing
for the GED Tests and are at GED level (TABE 9-12.9). Each
subject area begins with a pretest so students can assess
their strengths and weaknesses. Online lessons are designed
to improve skills and understanding of GED-related content.
There is a site license fee of $6,600 and seats are $27 per
year.
Instruction Targeted for TABE Success (ITTS),
McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Submitted by Lauri Stilwell, Caldwell
Community College and Technical Institute
ITTS is a
complete instructional, assessment, and prescription
software program that is based on the TABE 9 & 10
sub-skills for levels E,M,D and A. ITTS provides
interactive instruction in reading, language and math. The
program also creates customized student study plans. There
are 386 lessons and 1,002 assessments included in the
program. ITTS is for ABE or GED students. ITTS has an
online and seated option. The site license costs $9,450.
For online, there is an additional cost per seat of $27 per
year.
Research and Evaluation
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Expanding Access to
Adult Literacy with Online Distance Education: An Overview
of Online Distance Education
PDF(672K). National Center for the Study of Adult
Learning and Literacy, 2003. Funded by the U.S. Department
of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Literacy,
this monograph explores the potential of online distance
education to serve the needs of adult basic education
students.
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Technology in
Today's ABE Classroom: A Look at the Technology Practices
and Preferences of Adult Basic Education Teachers
PDF(1.33MB). World Education, 2003. The report
provides highlights from World Ed's recent survey of the
Northeastern United States.
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Assessing the
Impact of Technology in Teaching and Learning: A
Sourcebook for Evaluators. Institute for
Social Research, University of Michigan, 2002. The
Sourcebook provides an overview of measurement issues in
seven areas, from learner outcomes to technology
integration. A collection of appendices includes examples
of measures used in a variety of technology projects
previously funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
(formerly the Office of Educational Research and
Improvement (OERI)
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Learning Online:
Extending the Meaning of Community
PDF(134K). A Review of Three Programs From the
Southeastern United States. NCAL, 1999. Describes the
general features of "online learning communities," and
then highlights three organizations that demonstrate these
features.
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Informal Adult Learning and the Internet. Susan
Imel, 2003. This brief article provided as a Trend and
Issues Alert by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career,
and Vocational Education, addresses issues related to the
Internet and its role in informal learning.
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National Center on Adult Literacy Research Projects.
List of various in progress research projects.
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Noteworthy Practices
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The
TECH21 project is the Department's National Technology
Lab for Literacy and Adult Education located at the
National Center for Adult Literacy in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. The project strengthens the goal of models
of learning, instruction, and professional development.
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Project IDEAL
(Improving Distance Education for Adult Learners) is
established to discover the potential of distance teaching
strategies to increase access to education for adult
learners. and to systematically examine effective distance
learning practices. The project is funded in part by the
U.S. Department of Education.
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California's
Outreach and Technical Assistance Network(OTAN)provides
ABE and ESL resources and publications for teachers,
students and administrators.
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Massachusetts provides links to information on
the state's Adult and Community Learning Services, Family
Literacy, and GED programs, including curricula
frameworks, information of commonly used adult education
acronyms, and an extensive list of web resources.
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Florida's Office of Workforce Education Adult Education
provides links to
Florida's Distance Learning and Technology Project
(TechNet), as well as online adult education
curricula frameworks and a checklist.
Additional Links
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The Department of
Education's
Community Technology Centers (CTC) program.
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Enhancing Education Through Technology. Section of No
Child Left Behind that describes proposed grants for
education technology.
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The U.S.
Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology
(OET) was established to provide leadership in the
development of policies and resources in order to use
technology to promote achievement of the National
Education Goals. The OET website provides links to the
National Educational Technology Plan currently being
developed, the State Educational Technology Directors
Association's National Leadership Institute Tool Kit, The
What Works Clearinghouse, and other resources related to
technology and distance learning.
ERIC Clearinghouse.
Provides summaries of a number of books focusing on
information and technology with links to ordering them.
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The
Literacy List Adult Literacy Resource Institute,
University of Massachusetts, Boston. The Literacy List
provides a collection of free adult basic education (ABE)and
English Literacy websites, electronic lists, and other
Internet resources for ABE learners and teachers.
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