The Literacy Enquirer, http://www.literacyenquirer.ca/

The Literacy Enquirer is produced by the policy learning circle in Ontario. The policy learning circle is an informal group of practitioners in Ontario whose goal is to bring practitioner knowledge to the policy-making process. If you have anything pithy to say about literacy policy from a practitioner perspective, you're invited to write a short article or make a cartoon. Phone: 416.532.1605, Email: literacyenquirer@yahoo.ca

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Adult Literacy Education Wiki* (wiki wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning "very very quickly" - wiki alone means "quick")

A wiki is a web environment where colleagues can go to think together and write together. Practitioners can carry on conversations, write proposals or poems together, and it all stays in one place on one wiki page or with links to multiple wiki pages. The wikipedia is one of the most well-known examples of wiki technology.

Using the wiki, teachers, tutors, administrators, researchers, adult learners and others can add and discuss research questions using knowledge from research, experience teaching adult learners, or experience as an adult learner. Discussion topics include: Adult New Readers Who Plateau at Second or Third Grade Level; Evidence-Based Adult Education; Self-Study Among Adult Learners; Learner Persistence; Prsion Inmate Tutoring Programs; Assessment Information; Adult Literacy Professional Development; Participatory and Emancipatory Education; Accountability. Explore this new resource: http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Main_Page

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

Towards Clearer Communications, Fédération canadienne pour l'alphabétisation en français (FCAF) and other leading provincial literacy organizations. BC provincial conference, Vancouver, BC, March 31, 2005.

A series of provincial conferences across the country, culminating in a national conference in December 2005. At each conference, the following information will be shared: How to communicate with less-literate Canadians? How to design more effective forms? How to implement plain language in the workplace? Register on-line at http://www.clearercommunications.ca/registerhere.html. The daylong conference will be in English and French with a simultaneous translation. Contact Tobias Keogh, Project Manager, FCAF, (613) 749-5333 ext. 225 or 1-888-906-5666 Email : tkeogh@fcaf.net or visit http://www.clearercommunications.ca/