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Blogs / AlphaPlus Blog — Learning Outside the Lines : Adult Literacy in Ontario / 28 blog reactions
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literacies café : adult literacy blog
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gift horse
http://literaciescafe.blogspot.com/2008/07/gift-horse.htmla literacy-as-a-human-right approach to a literacy-as-a-vehicle-for-economic-competitiveness rhetoric described by Nancy Jackson in her interview with CBC's The Current on June 12, 2008. (Click on part 2 -- Nancy is on from about 3:55 to 14:40. Thanks Alpha for this link.) Focusing on the workplace makes sense. According to the 2003 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALLS), 76% of individuals with low levels of literacy and essential skills are in the labour force; either working or looking for work.
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Southern California Library Literacy Network
http://sclln.blogspot.comthe Wikis you want to compare, then press the button. Some other blogs and wikis mentioned during the sessions: ~ Burbank Public Library blog ~ literacyspace blog ~ DLC Adult Literacy Community ~ Families for Literacy at SF Bay Area Libraries ~ Exemplary Literacy Materials Online (ELMO) ~ Adult Literacy Education (ALE) Wiki ~ Burbank Public Library Wiki / Littlewiki
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realife
http://realife9.wordpress.comBlogroll Carl in Victoria, BC Durham Literacy Ctr, NC New Zealand Literacy Project Ontario’s AlphaPlus Prince Edward Island R.Stopper’s English Updates Toronto’s Literacy Cafe Wendell’s Reflective Practice
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qualities - communities - literacies
http://wendell-communitylit.blogspot.comYukon Literacy Coalition UK Webfocus Skills for Life (UK) realife Literacy Talk (PEI) Literacy Source (US) Literacies Café Slow Reading jill/txt Beth's Blog Angela Maiers (US) AlphaPlus Blog (Ont) my other blogs c u r b s i d e Glad to be Home for poetry changes nothing mmmmmmath homepage on multiply.com
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Blogs from Canada
http://chris-sfl.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogs-from-canada.htmlAlphaPlus Blog on the Blogs page. I have been aware of the AlphaPlus Centre in Toronto for some years, but only came across the blog recently. A recent post points to this class blog which is a splendidly straightforward place to publish literacy learner writing.
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Better Late Than Never
http://wordylefty.wordpress.comLiteracy AlphaPlus Literacies at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Literacies Cafe Literacies Journal
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Literacy Talk
http://literacytalkpei.blogspot.comAlphaPlus (Ontario)
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literacyspace: literacy & library cightings
http://literacyspace.blogspot.comAlphaPlus - Ontario Blog: BALIT - FFL - CA Blog: Durham Adult Literacy Community NC Blog: Literacies Cafe - Toronto Blog: Literacy Network - WI Blog: Literacy Source - Seattle Blog: Newton Free Library - MA Blog: Southern California Library Literacy Network
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babylon
http://literaciescafe.blogspot.com/2007/11/babylon.htmlAlphaPlus library has been dismantled. In September 2007, as a direct result of the federal funding cuts to provincial literacy initiatives announced in the fall of 2006, the AlphaPlus Library discontinued it's lending services and began the process of decentralizing its adult