News for You Online

Check out this website. It's updated monthly with news for adult readers.

VideoANT

Check out this cool online video annotation tool. You can use it to annotate (with text) any online video. Homegrown here in Minnesota.

iPad

Check it out. Looks promising and affordable.

Record yourself. Send me a message.

Literacy and Technology in Minnesota Blog

Here's another great tech in teaching blog from my colleague Susan WB.

Adult and Family Education Links

Here's a nicely ordered website with great links organized by topic.

Learn English for Work Interactive

Here's a great website, provided by Minneapolis ABE, called Learn English for Work. It's based on videos and vocabulary for six different jobs: custodian, dishwasher, food prep worker, housekeeper, laundry worker and packaging. Check it out.

Online Resources for Developing Readers (and their Teachers)

Check these out!

1. Story by Story Phonics Lessons

2. Reading Skills for Today's Adults

3. Reading Practice with Word Families

4. Adult Learning Activities

Website Readability Calculator

Here's a website that calculates the readability of any website. Just paste any URL into the box and click Calculate Readability. In order to make sense of the results, it would be a good idea to read through the brief descriptions of what tools they use to make the calculations. For example, you may be familiar with the Flesch-Kincaid grade level tool, which Microsoft Word uses. I'm sure you can imagine lots of examples of how this tool could be useful for you. Click on the blog post title or the word 'Here's' to link there.

Tech, Pedagogy and Education Article

Here's a link to a good research article titled, At the intersection of technology and pedagogy: considering styles of learning and teaching
If you want to download the pdf, just go to the link and click on View Article.