We hope you find this list useful for locating information on Educational Technology for use in the Adult Literacy education program.

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ABLE Field Notes
Articles on topics of interest to Adult Basic Literacy Educators from the Pennsylvania Adult Literacy Program. Topics include "Teaching and learning in the real world of adult education, Literacy/ABE, GED, ESL, Family Literacy, Workplace, and Technology"....articles are written by Tutors for Tutors!!  Worth a read.
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English For All
English For All is a free Web-based multimedia system for adults learning English as a second language.
English For All  (Best viewed with high-speed Internet connection.)

Web-Based Lesson Plans
This collection of six lesson plans is a companion resource to this Webliography site:
Webliography Site

It has been compiled and edited by David J. Rosen, Director of the Adult Literacy Resource Institute, the Greater Boston Regional Support Center of the Massachusetts System for Adult Basic Education Support

Each Lesson Plan uses a Web site that the writer thought would be useful for her/his students.
 Web-Based Lesson Plans

Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.
Hot Potatoes

Interactive Grammar Exercises using Hot Potatoes suite:
Exercises

TexToys
TexToys is a suite of two authoring programs, WebRhubarb and WebSequitur. The programs are used to create web pages (HTML documents) that contain interactive language-learning exercises. The exercises are based on the Rhubarb and Sequitur programs originally developed by John and Muriel Higgins.
Once you have created the exercises, you can deliver them to your students in the form of web pages. You can also upload them to our hosting service at hotpotatoes.net.
TexToys is shareware, so you can download and install it free of charge. However, the download version is restricted - to take full advantage of all the program and hosting features, you must register the TexToys package using the secure online order form.
Tex Toys

Captured Wisdom on Adult Literacy
Seven examples that help educators learn about successful practices of technology integration for improved adult education. Innovative activities are shown, described, and discussed by front-line classroom educators and learners.
Captured Wisdom (Best viewed with high-speed Internet connection.)

Harnessing Technology
The Harnessing Technology Web pages help adult literacy education (ABE/GED/ESL/ESOL) teachers and learners to use computers, television, audio and video cassettes, and other electronic technology to help solve learning and instructional problems.
Harnessing Technology

Surfing for Substance  - a professional development guide to integrating the World Wide Web into adult literacy instruction.
Surfing for Substance

WebQuest  is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet.
Introduction Page
Examples

Other Examples:

The Basics - Learning How to get Around the WEB
Basics

More Basics

Building a Web Site in an ABE Class - Building a web site allowed everyone to demonstrate their skills
Building a WEB Site

Filamentality  is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities. In the end, you'll create a Web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML, Web servers, or all that www-dot stuff.
Tool/

Office Simulation Example - This is an interesting concept from the Electronic Classroom site.
Office Simulation

The Study Place
Because The Study Place is on the Internet, teachers can find and modify ready-made activities, lessons and even entire courses created by teachers around the world. Lessons in The Study Place archives can be found using a search based on theme, subject, difficulty and activity type. In addition, teachers can create class home pages using simple forms to make assignments and communicate to students online.
Teachers are guided step-by-step to create original lessons using simple forms.
Fully animated quick tours for students and teachers are an easy and fun way to learn about The Study Place features and how to use them.
The Study Place
 

Other Resources:

GCF Global Learning®
GCF Global Learning offers free online computer classes and tutorials in English and Spanish, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on their new and improved Web site. It provides material on Computer Basics, Email Basics, Internet Basics, Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, OpenOffice.org Writer and much more. New features include: free tutorials to learn at your own pace; tutorial search tool to find the material you want to learn; free online classes to learn with the help of an online instructor; My GCF -your own personal start-page - to find all class-related material and records; article search tool; Organizational Member Program (OM); and Media Center. For further information, contact Courtney Hodgson, Marketing Specialist for GCF Global Learning, at (919) 281-9195; or go to:
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Keeping Up but Feeling Breathless: Learners and Practitioners Using Technology - a compilation of useful sites from David J. Rosen, Director Adult Literacy Resource Institute Boston, Massachusetts
More Useful Sites

LINCS Site with more resources:
Teacher / Tutor Resources