Come to the Provincial Literacy Forum
Next month's provincial forum in Victoria includes a lineup of
workshops designed to appeal to practitioners, employers and others
interested in the challenges and innovations of literacy in B.C.
Literacy: Investing in our Future, features topics ranging
from parenting skills, workplace training and research, to the media,
the Net and electronic conferencing. The two-day event is hosted by
Project Literacy Victoria and sponsored by the
National Literacy
Secretariat and the Ministry of Education, Skills and Training
(MOEST). It takes place November 28-29 at the Ocean Pointe Resort.
Participants can choose from over 20 workshops in
four sessions, including:
Literacy and Learning at Work: Practical Strategies for
Employers
Examines successful and unsuccessful training of
low literacy employees. Presented by Janis LaCouvee, Techniques
Employment Services (Victoria) and Maryse Neilson, Learning
Disabilities Association of B.C. (Victoria).
Electronic Conferencing
Showcases the current
electronic networks in B.C. and Canada, with Sandy Middleton of
Literacy B.C. and Peter Goulding of AlphaCom, the Ontario literacy
on-line network.
Introduction to the Internet
Explores the capacity and
usefulness of the World Wide Web and its applications to literacy
work, with B.C. librarian Thomas Qulgley and Charles Ramsey from the
National Adult Literacy Database (NALD).
Family Literacy
A panel will discuss family literacy
initiatives in different regions of B.C., moderated by Barbara Bate,
University College of the Fraser Valley.
The Media Project: An Attempt to Harness the Power of TV
Reg McNamara, an instructor from the University College of the
Cariboo (UCC), presents a "show and tell" with video and
printed materials from this project partnered by UCC and two Kamloops
media outlets.
Nearly All You Want to Know About the Adult Literacy Cost-Shared
Program
with Audrey Thomas, Project Officer, Developmental
Programs (Literacy and ABE), MOEST; and Yvette Souque, Program
Consultant, National Literacy Secretariat, Human Resources Development
Canada.
From the Inside Out: Reading and Writing Poetry with Adult
Learners
Vicki Grieve, University College of the Fraser
Valley, explores the interplay between poetry and literacy
instruction.
Motivation: Values, Work and Disabilities
Margaret
Raymond from Project Literacy West Kootenay discusses the implications
of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS/FAE) for literacy programming.
An open forum where conference participants choose their own topics
for discussion follows the final session.
For more information and to register, contact Susan Kurushima
at:
Project Literacy Victoria
930A Yates Street
Victoria,
B.C. V8V 4Z3
Phone: (250) 381-3755
Fax: (250) 381-4911
Email:
kurushim@camosun.bc.ca
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