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Spring has sprung and TDSB LBS practitioners have sprung into action. Below is a message that you probably received last week. For the duration of this project we will use this blog as a place to post new information and resources. Also - check out the TDSB LBS Wiki: tdsblbs.pbworks.com

Our new computers have been delivered to our classes and are being set up by our Technical Support Staff. To help you make the most of the opportunities that computers in the classroom can provide, we have arranged for individualized hands-on PD for you and your learners.

This training will be delivered by Tracey Mollins. Many of you met Tracey at our PD session last April, where she facilitated the Introduction to Online Learning workshop. Tracey has been involved in literacy and computers for many years and is the author of ‘Learning our Way: Women, Computers and Literacy’, and the developer of 16 AlphaRoute Online Courses for Adult Literacy Learners.

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This PD opportunity will unfold in the following way:

• an initial meeting with Tracey will take place in your classroom so she can find out how you and your learners would like to use online resources to enhance literacy learning
• using the information she’s gathered, Tracey will design ‘hands-on’ materials which you can use to integrate on-line learning into your classroom
• a subsequent 2-hour session will take place in your classroom with Tracey, where she’ll introduce and model for you and your learners the materials she’s developed for you, allowing you to integrate on-line resources into your program to enhance literacy learning
• Tracey will make a follow-up visit so she can answer any questions you have about the on-line enhancements she provided

Tracey will conduct her initial visits in April and May. Your Program Officer will let you know when she’ll be visiting with you and your learners. Her subsequent visits will take place in the fall.

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Adults generally have positive attitudes towards computer use and are eager to acquire computer skills for the workplace and home. We’re very fortunate this year that MTCU has provided us with both technical upgrades and training opportunities – these will allow us to meet our learners’ needs and fully integrate computers/on-line learning into their literacy programs.