Webinar:
Distance Learning Strategy Sessions  

Join the EdTech Center this Friday at 10:00 Pacific, 12:00 Central, 1:00 Eastern for our weekly Distance Ed Strategy Sessions. This webinar, designed for administrators, professional development leaders and teachers, will feature lightning talks about using WhatsApp as a central instructional tool and a description for how one state is using the Teacher Verification Model for proxy contact hour counting. We will offer breakout discussion on these topics, where attendees will have a chance to ask questions and share ideas. 

Digital Fault Lines Expand as Work and Learning Shift Online

With video chat enabling virtual work and students and teachers learning (many, for the first time) to collaborate digitally, it is easy to focus on the ways technology is enabling a degree of normalcy in a time that is anything but normal. 

As COVID-19 response measures force schools, libraries, and community centers to close and workplaces to shift off-site, changes in our analog habits have cut off a digital lifeline for millions of U.S. workers and families.  

 Share What You are Learning in this Time of Crisis ~ Special Issue on Online Learning, Technology Integration, and Digital Literacy

The Adult Literacy Education: The International Journal of Literacy, Language, and Numeracy is seeking submissions for a special issue on online learning, technology integration, and digital literacy. Please see the call for papers. You can direct questions to the Special Issue Guest Editor, Jen Vanek, Director of Digital Learning and Research at the EdTech Center @ World Education.

Global Storybooks: 
From Arabic to Zulu, freely available digital tales in 50+ languages

Dr. Bonny Norton from University of British Columbia has been working on creating  an open multilingual literacy portal called Global Storybooks.  The site hosts hundreds of multilingual open-licensed books from over 40 countries. The linked storybooks are mobile friendly, easy to click to, and include audio. This is a wonderful resource for ESOL teachers to use to support literacy development in a learner’s home language, or for adult ESOL students to use with their own children.