ERIC Number: ED347273
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1990
Pages: 90
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Adult Literacy & Technology Newsletter. Vol. 4. Nos. 1-4.
Adult Literacy & Technology Newsletter, v4 n1-4 Spr 1990-Win 1990
These four issues comprise Volume 4 of the "Adult Literacy & Technology (AL&T) Newsletter." Issue 1 contains the following articles: "Preparing Our Children for Their Future, Not Our Past" (David Thornburg); "The Video Project" (Michael Hanish); "Images of the Future" (Terilyn Turner); "Hyperapplications: Implications for Reading and Writing" (Jay Blanchard); "Software Review: Low-Cost Literacy Software" (Martha Lane); "Word Processing and Writing. Part Two: Editing and Revising" (Jane Laidley); "Networked Learning: Staff and Student Responses to the Corvus Hard-Disk System" (Larry Brown); and "Adult Academic Program Utilizes Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI)" (Mary Negri). Articles in Issue 2 include the following: "Instruction a la mode: Types of Learning in CAI" (Larry Statan); "Network Shopping Tips" (Tom Pier); "Pushing the Envelope: University-Level Remediation and Multimedia Technology" (Ed Gueble); "Talk of Technology at the UN World Education Conference" (Martha Lane); "Hyperterminology from Hell" (Michael Swaine); "'America Online': Talk Is Cheap" (Ed Gueble); and "State Libraries Meet on Literacy" (June Eiselstein). Issue 3 contains the following: "Closed-Captioned TV and ESL (English as a second language) Instruction" (Ed Gueble); "Learner-Centered Instruction in the Workplace" (Ed Gueble); "At the 1990 AL&T Conference" (Ed Gueble); "Sharing Ideas in Canada" (Brent Poulton et al.); and "Apple Designates Intellimation as Its Software Source". Articles in Issue 4 are as follows: "Trade-Offs and Pay-Offs: Workplace Literacy at a Crossroads" (Ed Gueble); "On the Road again in Toronto: A Mobile Computer Lab" (Brent Poulton); "The Bus Stops Here: The L.A. Times Mobile Reading Lab" (Ed Gueble); "Technology and a Season of Caring" (Terilyn Turner); "OTA (Office of Technology Assessment) Begins Assessment" (Ed Gueble); "Software Review: Reading Realities Combines Literacy and Life Skills" (Sara Armstrong); and "A Few Books on Literacy, the Workplace, and the Culture." (YLB)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Reviews, Courseware, Daily Living Skills, Educational Technology, Educational Television, English (Second Language), Illiteracy, Literacy Education, Mobile Educational Services, Videotape Cassettes, Videotape Recorders, Workplace Literacy
Adult Literacy and Technology Project, PCC, Inc., 2682 Bishop Drive, Suite 107, San Ramon, CA 94583 ($15 per year for individuals or nonprofit agencies; $50 per year for others).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials
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Language: English
Sponsor: Gannett Foundation, Arlington, VA.
Authoring Institution: Adult Literacy and Technology Project, San Ramon, CA.
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