February 2006

OUR VOICE


Literacy Basics Plus

Community Literacy of Ontario is delighted to announce that it has received funding from the National Literacy Secretariat for an exciting project called Literacy Basics Plus. Literacy Basics Plus will provide "just in time" training for LBS practitioners. This project will provide both realtime, online training on Centra and web-based, self-directed training modules. Our project will run from December 2005 until November 2006.

As part of this project CLO will research and write the curriculum for four web-based, online, self-directed training modules. These four modules will be added to the four existing modules on CLO's fabulous new self-directed online training website called "Literacy Basics"(www.nald.ca/literacybasics).

The four web-based modules will be:

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  • Learner recruitment
  • Learner retention
  • Outcomes-based program evaluation
  • Self-management and self-direction

CLO will also research, develop and deliver four online workshops on Centra. Each of these workshops will be delivered twice to 15 literacy practitioners per session for a total of 60 training seats.

Outcomes-Based Program Evaluation:

  • Thursday, February 23, 2006 (9:30 a.m. to noon EST)
  • Tuesday, March 7, 2006 (1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST)

Learner Recruitment:

  • Tuesday, May 16, 2006 (10:00 a.m. to noon EST)
  • Thursday, May 25, 2006 (1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST)