eVALBEC
July 2008
This
is the electronic newsletter of VALBEC, the Victorian
Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council, and is
sent to about 850 practitioners on the first of each
month (other than January). It is also available in
the ‘News’ section of our web site http://www.valbec.org.au
Disclaimer: The activities, goods and services mentioned
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IN THIS ISSUE OF eVALBEC:
1. VALBEC Committee
elections
2. Annual General Meeting & Twilight Forum
3. Securing Our Future Economic Prosperity discussion
paper
4. LLNP Discussion paper
5. Fine Print News
6. An invitation from the Fine Print Editorial Committee
to adult literacy teachers and students
7. 30 years of VALBEC Celebration Dinner
8. ‘Still Glides the Stream’ Conference
9. ACAL Conference 2008 ‘Surfing outside the
flags: catching waves, avoiding rips’
10. Adult literacy makes it on to TV
11. Training & Professional Development Co-ordinator
12. The 3Rs Revisited
13. ACFE Funding 2008 Community Learning Partnerships
14. ACFE Live Classroom
15. Health & Literacy: Constructing Curriculum
for Health Care Providers
16. Subscribe to eVALBEC?
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18. Contact VALBEC
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1. VALBEC Committee
elections
Welcome back to the
committee Co – Presidents Ann Haynes and Lynne
Matheson, Secretary Jeannie Turnbull, Treasurer and
ACAL rep John Radalj, and general committee members
Teresa Cusack, Pauline O'Maley, Dianne Parslow, Gail
Pratley, Kerrin Pryor, Corinna Ridley, Yvonne Russell,
Debbie Soccio and new members Marie Bonne and Sandra
Wolfe.
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2. Annual General Meeting & Twilight
Forum
Thanks to Nick Gadd
for an entertaining and thought provoking talk. Watch
out for Nick presenting at the Victorian Writers’ Festival
on his novel Ghostlines.
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3. Securing Our Future
Economic Prosperity discussion paper
VALBEC response to
the Securing Our Future Economic Prosperity discussion
paper was submitted on June 8. There have been
a number of responses posted by organizations and TAFE
institutes. We await the government response. See websites
for more information
http://www.vta.vic.edu.au/
http://acevic.org.au/Content/category/latest-news/
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4. LLNP Discussion
paper
VALBEC draws your
attention to the media release regarding the future
direction of the Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program.
Download the Federal Government discussion paper Language,
Literacy and Numeracy Program services
http://www.llnp.deewr.gov.au/LLNP_RFT_Discussion_Paper.htm
Responses due on July 11
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5. Fine Print News
We welcome Tricia
Bowen as new commissioning editor. The Editorial group
met last week to plan the Spring and Summer editions
of Fine Print. You can send Tricia material for Fine
Print at fineprint@vabec.org.au
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6. An invitation from
the Fine Print Editorial Committee to adult literacy
teachers and students
Please help us with
our special Fine Print 2008 Summer Edition “Celebrating
ALBE Students and their Writing”
We want to celebrate the work of adult literacy students
by publishing their writing. We want to build a picture
of the diverse learning contexts, the life experiences,
and the goals and thoughts of our learners. We also
want to highlight teaching approaches to writing by
publishing short reflections from teachers.
Refer to http://www.valbec.org.au/studentwriting.htm for
more details
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7. 30 years of VALBEC
Celebration Dinner
View photos at http://www.valbec.org.au/conf08/images/dinner/index.htm
Thanks to Debbie Soccio for taking photos on the night
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8. ‘Still Glides
the Stream’ Conference
Ten presentations
including an audio file of the Closing Keynote "… and
shall forever glide: our ever-changing English language" Professor
Kate Burridge, Chair of Linguistics Monash University have
been added to the conference web site http://www.valbec.org.au/conf08/sessions.htm
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9. ACAL Conference
2008 ‘Surfing outside the flags: catching waves,
avoiding rips’
2nd - 4th October
2008
Surfers Paradise, Queensland
More than 40 abstracts
for presentations have been received, from around Australia,
from Scotland, Canada and New Zealand. Details of these
will soon be available on the website. Information
about Keynote speakers: Noyona Chanda, Hermine Scheeres,
Michael Balfour and Colleen Mitrow at http://www.astmanagement.com.au/qcal8/Speakers1.htm
Pre-Conference Forum – Thursday 2 October
Adult literacy, numeracy and lifelong learning: a cross-sectoral
dialogue
Join Senator Ursula Stephens (Parliamentary Secretary
for Social Inclusion) and Dr Chris Duncan (ABS) in
examining the implications of the ALLS survey for different
sectors and work towards developing a framework for
social inclusion through building literacy into a whole
of government approach to policy development.
Online registration http://www.astmanagement.com.au/qcal8/registration.htm
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10. Adult literacy
makes it on to TV
National Adult Literacy
Agency (NALA) of Ireland http://www.nala.ie have
advised that ‘Written Off?’, a fly-on-the-wall
documentary series which follows the lives of 11 adults
who have difficulties with reading and writing, who
go back to learning, is now available online. The programme
has just finished its 8 week run on Ireland’s
national broadcaster RTE 1 television. NALA have set
up distance education tutor support service for anyone
who sees/hears about the programme and wants to work
on their literacy by distance education.
You can see it at http://www.writtenoff.ie/ -
click on Sub Pages ‘Watch Programmes’.
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11. Training & Professional
Development Co-ordinator
The Victorian Foundation
for Survivors of Torture Training & Professional
Development Co-ordinator 0.6 EFT Two year contract
Position description http://www.foundationhouse.org.au/about_work.php/
Queries call Arna Stewart, Health Sector Training,
on (03) 9389 0022.
Closing date for applications is Wednesday, 9th July,
2008.
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12. The 3Rs Revisited
Addressing the
Language, Literacy and Numeracy Needs of Your VET Learners
The 3Rs Revisited is
a new and rewarding online literacy and numeracy professional
development program designed for VET practitioners
working in Registered Training Organisations. The
program is highly practical and enables participants
to develop skills and strategies for helping learners
meet the language, literacy and numeracy demands of
their course. Louise Wignall, a leading Australian
authority on literacy and VET has described the program
as ‘tremendous and valuable’.
For further information about this professional development
opportunity and to register, please visit http://www.tafe.tas.edu.au/3RsInformation
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13. ACFE Funding 2008
Community Learning Partnerships
The Funding Guidelines
and Application Form for 2008 Community Learning Partnerships
(CLPs) are now available at http://www.acfe.vic.gov.au/
The CLP initiative continues to be a key strategy in
the implementation of the 2004 Ministerial Statement
on ACE, particularly in relation to the objective of
broadening the role of ACE.
The guidelines and application process are essentially
the same as they were in 2007.
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14. ACFE Live Classroom
For the past three
years ACFE has purchased access to two rooms in Live
Classroom, an online virtual classroom. Live
Classroom is fully online and combines state-of-the-art
interactive technologies such as voice, application
sharing, polling and a whiteboard. It enables teachers
to add greater interaction to their (online) delivery
and to foster better communication with students. Adult
Community Education (ACE) providers can also use it
for online meetings, briefing sessions, presentations,
conference sessions and professional development events.
ACFE have purchased two rooms for ACE Providers to
use in 2008.
In order to accommodate growing demand for access to Live
Classroom a booking system will be implemented
in 2008 to ensure fair and equitable use.
As the managing agent for the ACFE Vic Government
e-learning project, the Southern Metropolitan
Regional Council of ACFE is implementing an online
booking system on the e-mentors project wiki at: http://ementors.acfe.vic.edu.au/bookings.
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15. Health & Literacy:
Constructing Curriculum for Health Care Providers
October 16-18, 2008,
in Calgary, AB, Canada.
The event will be attended by health-care providers
from every branch of health-care service, curriculum
developers in health-care and adult basic education
and literacy, ESL providers, administrators and
policy makers. Dr. Andrew Pleasant, of Rutgers University,
has been invited to act as resident expert.
For further information info@centreforliteracy.qc.ca
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18. Contact VALBEC
eVALBEC is the monthly
electronic newsletter of (VALBEC) the Victorian Adult
Literacy and Basic Education Council.
E-mail: info@valbec.org.au
Web: http://www.valbec.org.au
Postal: Box 861 Springvale South VIC 3172
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