Social Networking Sites and Adult Literacy Learning: Raising the Issues

AlphaPlus’ most recently published paper, Social Networking Sites and Adult Literacy Learning: Raising the Issues, explores how educators and adult learners might harness the full potential of Social Networking Sites (SNS)  and other social media in the service of adult literacy teaching and learning. We encourage you to share the information in the paper with your network, and to send us your feedback. Click here to download the paper in PDF. Note that the paper was revised on December 3, 2011.

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Prezi: The zooming presentation editor

Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a zoomable canvas instead of traditional slides. It allows you to share text, images, videos and other objects and to group them together in frames to create a great visual presentation.

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Creating fun and dynamic presentations – it isn't as difficult as you might think

When I was asked to talk about AlphaPlus at one of the literacy conferences, I was worried... Not only I am a big chicken when it comes to speaking in front of a big audience, but I am also not a big fan of PowerPoint. We have all been to sessions where there is too much text on the slides and the presenter, overwhelmed with all of the content, simply reads from the screen.

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