e-WAALC News is the
electronic newsletter of the Western Australian Adult Literacy Council.
The WAALC
Executive Committee prepares and sends e-WAALC News to members
four or five times a year. We welcome
your comments, suggestions, and contributions to the newsletter.
This newsletter
is also available on our web site http://www.waalc.com.au
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IN THIS ISSUE OF e-WAALC News:
1) NEWSFLASH! Speaker and Dinner Tuesday
2) A message from the chairperson
3) WAALC 2008 Conference - Call for Papers
4) Training Forum - Early bird registrations
5) VALBEC Conference - Early bird
registrations
6) ACAL Conference - - Call for Papers
7)
8) CGEA Network Google Group update
9) ‘Contacts’
update
10) Unsubscribe?
11) Issues? Contributions?
12) New members?
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1. NEWSFLASH! Speaker and dinner
Tuesday
We have an exciting opportunity to hear from one of the speakers from
last year’s ACAL conference. Dr Chris Holland is visiting from
Between 1994 and 2001, Dr Chris Holland was the professional development
manager / associate director of The Network in the
Time: Tuesday 8th
April 2008 6.00 pm
Location:
Room W512, Central TAFE, 25 Aberdeen Street,
Northbridge
Take the lifts to the fifth floor and
turn right as you leave the lift –W512 means West Wing, Fifth Floor, Room
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Send a message to 0437 972 043 (Voicemail or SMS) or email c.l.wiltshire@gmail.com if you plan to attend.
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2. A message from the chairperson
Apologies for the delay in getting this first newsletter out to you for
2008. It
is packed with conferences which will interest members. Get out your diaries and decide which ones you
would like to present at or to attend. And don’t forget to share what you learn
in the process by writing a brief report for eWAALC
News.
The executive
is busy with planning for our own conference in July. As a result of feedback from previous
conferences, we will try a two day event this year. We hope you will support it by seeking
presenters that interest you and encouraging them to present, by offering your
own input through presentations, and by coming along to as much of the
conference as you can manage and contributing to the sessions as a delegate. See the next item for details of the call for
papers.
If you would like
to help even more directly, I invite you to take up one of the vacancies on the
executive. Paul Barnes is taking some time off to study and his energy and
enthusiasm will be sorely missed in the lead up to this year’s conference. If you would like to see whether your skills
would fit, give me a call on 9593 2124. This is a
good way to check out whether WAALC executive work suits you. Your term would
only be until the Annual General Meeting at the conference in July. If you enjoy it, you can nominate for a position
at the AGM for the whole of next year. Members from outside the metropolitan area can
participate in our face to face meetings by telephone and alternate meetings
are web-conferenced using Literacy Live. New members are welcome to join the
executive.
Sue
McKay
WAALC
Chairperson
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3. WAALC 2008 Conference Call for papers
Adults Only. A Conference for Adult Educators: Issues
for today’s adult literacy learning Central TAFE
The theme of
the conference focuses on what it means for adults when they decide to increase
the basket of literacy and numeracy skills that they can draw on while
fulfilling their many adult roles. We
recognise that adults’ literacy is critical for the healthy development and
education of children. Adolescents often
find new impetus for learning when they transfer to an adult literacy
context. As a result, the conference
will include a focus on building family capital and intergenerational learning
as an important aspect of adult literacy.
WAALC is keen
to explore questions such as
If you would like
to present a session at the Adults Only conference,
please submit proposals by 1 May 2008 to sherod_au@yahoo.com.au or post to
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4. VALBEC Conference - early bird
registrations
Still glides the
stream
William Angliss
Conference Centre, corner La Trobe and King Sts,
Still glides the stream is a motif for
endurance that typifies the spirit, commitment and passion of VALBEC in its
30th year and provides the theme for their annual conference. The VALBEC conference will
provide practitioners with a forum to explore new ideas and effective
approaches to deal with changing student cohorts, challenging workplace
conditions, variations in curriculum and compliance requirements. Full session details http://www.valbec.org.au/conf08/sessiondetails.htm.
Early Bird Member
Rate finishes on April 18, 2008.
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5. ACAL
Conference – Call for papers
Surfing Outside the Flags : catching waves,
avoiding rips
2nd - 4th October 2008 Crowne Plaza, Surfers
The Australian
Council of Adult Literacy (ACAL) conference this year has five themes:
·
• Indigenous
literacy & numeracy
·
• Vocational &
workplace literacy & numeracy
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• Meeting the
literacy & numeracy needs of African refugees
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• Numeracy
·
• Community
literacy
Papers are required by June 10th
2008. See the Conference website at http://www.astmanagement.com.au/qcal8/ for more
details.
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6.
SOCIAL INCLUSION - Engaging the Disengaged
through Life-Wide Learning
Fremantle, 30 October – 1
November.
Adult Learning Australia’s (
·
'Where to' for
Indigenous learning after the Apology?
·
How will Social
Inclusion benefit the Australian economy?
Call for papers is
open now. Outlines of papers need to be
submitted to m.brebner@ala.asn.au by
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7. Training
Forum - early bird registrations
Training Forum 2008 Revolution or Evolution? Managing
Change in the VET Sector, Burswood Entertainment Complex,
The Department of Education and Training
is once again organising this forum to provide professional development for
practitioners, including trainers, lecturers, teachers, assessors and other
Registered Training Organisation (RTO) staff involved in the planning,
provision, delivery and assessment of VET.
Early Bird Registration
closes 18 April 2008. See http://www.vetinfonet.det.wa.edu.au/home/ for details.
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8. CGEA Network Google
Group update
Since August 2007,
the CGEA Network have used a new way to share
ideas. The CGEA Network Google Group
provides an online location to share documents in any format as well as a
discussion forum.
The group now has 84
members and nearly the same number have been invited and just need to activate
their accounts. Members have uploaded 39
documents. Now that the new CGEA
curriculum is being used across the state, questions are being raised and
resolved almost daily. The group also
has added quite a few ideas about resources for teaching and learning over past
weeks.
Along the way, we
have discovered some limitations of the group.
The most annoying to me personally is that we can’t create folders or
subgroups to make files about particular topics easier to find. Adding new members has caused some headaches
too. Many a newbie has been confused by
a misleading message telling them they are not a member when all they needed to
do was sign in! Some members have had
trouble uploading documents and last week, some of our file uploads disappeared
for a whole day.
Despite the
frustrations, it is great to have a way to share larger documents without
needing to overload email boxes with things that not everyone wants.
If you want to
have a look, ask a current member to invite you or go to http://groups.google.com/group/CGEA-Network?hl=en and click on “Contact the owner to join”.
Department
of Education and Training
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9. Unsubscribe?
If you don't
want to receive this newsletter or wish to suspend it while you are away on
leave, please email the WAALC secretary, Sheila Rod [sherod_au@yahoo.com.au]. Back
issues will be available on the WAALC website for you to catch up when you
return.
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10. New members?
Who do you know
that should be a WAALC member? You are welcome to forward this
newsletter to colleagues who you think should be a member of WAALC. Or perhaps invite a prospective member to
attend events like our conference to meet other members.
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11. Issues? Contributions?
WAALC seeks to
represent all adult educators who deliver adult literacy and numeracy programs
in
Contributions
to this newsletter are very welcome.
Good news, bad news, whatever you think others might want to know, send
it in!
Members are
especially invited to submit a piece about their practice for our Teachers Talk segment.
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12. ‘Contacts’ update
Let us know if
your address changes through one of the contact methods listed below.
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e-WAALC News is the monthly
electronic newsletter of (WAALC) the Western Australian Adult Literacy Council.
Web: www.waalc.com E-mail: sherod_au@yahoo.com.au
Postal:
Phone:
Sue McKay WAALC
Chairperson 08) 9593 2124