Projects
Links to projects will be available on this page as projects come on-line.Janet Brown
Research Associate | RMC Research Corporation | Washington, DC
Reading at Home "is a site for adult learners who are parents of children
in the early grades. The site is ideal for adult learners who are participating
in a family literacy program such as Even Start or whose children are enrolled
in a Title I school improvement program. Adult learners who are in ABE programs
or working with a tutor may enjoy viewing the site to get ideas about reading
at home with young children in their family." 
Barbara Denman
ESL Coordinator | Prince George's County, MD
Listen Up! Designed for beginning and intermediate adult ESL learners, the
purpose of this site is to provide practice in listening comprehension. Activities
will be organized by difficulty level, type of input (listening or listening
while viewing a picture etc.), and by content area.
Maura Donnelly
ABE Teacher | LaGuardia Community College | Queens, NY
Revise! Site for pre-GED level students. The idea is that students can type
in a piece of writing on the Web site, and then be guided via a series of
questions and/or suggestions on steps they might take to revise the piece.
Gail Drake
Instructional Technology Specialist | Prince George's County, MD
Word Families. Designed for adult learners struggling to build basic word
decoding skills. Users will click on boxes containing letter groups (rimes)
and hear the sound that correlates with each group. Various proactive activities
will then be available for practice.
Stacie Evans
ABE Teacher | New York, NY
Basics for Beginners is a site for "people who are learning to read (and
write) get some practice... and have some fun!" Users can choose to simply
read a story, choose words from the story for further practice, answer questions
about the story, or even add their own additions to the story!
Janet Isserlis
Project Director | Literacy Resources/RI | Providence, RI
A web
site addressing issues of violence for readers at beginning levels. The
site includes some material that Isserlis has developed herself, as well as
a number of annotated links to basic-level reading sites and notes for educators
who might choose to integrate the site's content into their ongoing adult
education work.
Kemala Karmen
Instructional Technology Specialist | Literacy Assistance Center | New York, NY
The site will include "a short fictionalized story in 4 chapters aimed
at low-intermediate ESOL students. Each page will contain a brief chunk of
text accompanied by a photograph; users will click through the story slideshow
fashion, with the option of listening to the story by clicking on an audio
icon. The story, about an immigrant who overcomes her fear of the NYC subway,
was inspired by my own students' experiences and is intended to function as
a subway primer, introducing subway-specific vocabulary and subway navigation
(and etiquette!) tips. Grammarwise, the story is mostly limited to simple
present and past tenses, with plenty of repetition and modeling of commonly
used irregular forms. There will be some scaffolding built in so that a user
confronted with an irregular form, such as "flew" would be able to click on
it and see the base form (fly)."
Rebecca Pomerantz
ESOL Basic Literacy and Computer Teacher | International Institute | Boston, MA
Purpose of her project is to "introduce low-literacy learners to the Internet
and the World Wide Web in a way that demystifies it and in which they feel
empowered and begin to see the medium's potential to help them meet their
learning goals." The target audience is learners with limited literacy skills
who have access to the Internet, but who are "overwhelmed by its emphasis
on text." The site will consist of a visual overview of how the Internet works
and the types of information available.
Steve Quann
ESOL Teacher| MA
The Change Agent
in the Classroom. This site is designed to be used in conjunction with
The Change Agent, the New England Literacy Resource Center's
unique newspaper for the adult education community. The Change Agent
contains news, issues, ideas, and other teaching resources, that inspire and
enable adult educators and learners to make civic participation and social
justice related concerns part of their teaching and learning. The Change Agent
in the Classroom Web site brings material from the newspaper to the Web, and
enables classes to utilize interactive activities based on Change
Agent articles.
Wendy Quinones
The goal of this project is to help adult students engage imaginatively
with history by integrating their own personal histories with general historical
events. The resulting timeline will live on the Web, and will include an opportunity
for visitors to contribute their own stories.
Sherry Royce
Lancaster, PA
Living and Learning in Lancaster County. This site, designed for adults with
a 2-5th-grade reading level, will provide a vehicle in which to explore the
cultural diversity of Lancaster County, PA.
Barbara Smith
Executive Director | Hudson River Center for Program Development | Albany, NY
Child Safety: A Web-based
Instructional Resource. Goal is to provide adult learners with planning
skills and prevention techniques to keep their children safe. Users will read
text on the site, listen to audio that emphasizes important points, link to
related sites, and will step them through the process of devising a child
safety plan for their own children.
Priscilla Stadler
Adult Education and Web Design Specialist | American Gateways/Settlement House Initiative | New York, NY
Mission Possible (in progress).
The goals of this site are to create a community resource for Lower East Side
residents, especially parents of children in Public School District 1, and
to help adult learners of the Lower East Side develop technology, writing,
and employment skills. The content of the site will be chosen and developed
by the community members making the site (the Lower East Side Web Team). Parents
of children in School District One are especially encouraged to participate.
Alan Tubman
Matematiko Math Tutorial
for middle schools, high schools, and GED preparation classes. Written for
GED students, this interactive Web-based application will teach students how
to solve a mathematical word problem involving issues of speed and distance.
Renata Watson
ESOL/EFL Teacher | Brattleboro, VT
What's Next: Navigating Our Futures: A Transition Curriculum for adult ESOL
Learners. Designed for low-level ESOL learners, this site will be a place
for them to access materials on employment skills.
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