News & Views May June 2006

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News and

Views

May/June 2006

Issue 32

Summer is Almost Here!!

JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY MAY 10TH

Place: La Sirne, 480 Boul. St-Martin OuestTime: 6:00 p.m.What: Dinner celebration (includes soup, salad, dessert and coffee)Cost: $15 per person (meal/tax/tip included)

All TLE partners, students, volunteers, tutors, family and friendsare invited to join us for our Annual Celebration Event!!

* Please note the $15 MUST be paid in advance by the May 5th deadline to reserve your spot!

Social Committee

The Learning Exchange Celebration Event 2006

We are asking studentsand volunteers to kindlyreturn all books and re-sources (except for work-books) before June 15thunless youre planning tomeet with your student/tutor during the summer.This year, TLE will beclosing for the summer onJune 15th and TLE will notbe accessible to members

in the summer for tutori-als because we arechanging rooms over thesummer for the fall. Weencourage anyone inter-ested in continuing overthe holidays to meet atthe local library.Please inform Karen if you plan to be tutoringover the summer holi-days. Thanks!

Presidents Message 2

From the E.D.s Desk 2

Karens Korner 2

Tutor Training Continues 3

Thank You Volunteers! 3

Book Sales 3

Book Club News 3

News from NALD 4

Literacy Links 4

Gift of Reading 4

May Calendar 5

June Calendar 6

Welcome to TLE! 3

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Darlene BrownExecutive Director

Editor/LayoutDesigner

DarleneBrown

www.nald.ca/thelearningexchange


Karen Mockler

Administrative Assistant

Jacklyn Freedman-SpectorCommunications Director

3200 Souvenir Blvd. room D-110Chomedey Laval, Quebec.H7V 1W9

Phone: 450-688-2933 ext. 3126Fax: 450-688-8125E-mail: [email protected]

Web site: www.nald.ca/thelearningexchange

Excellence in Literacy

HOW TO CONTACT US

T L E L i t e r a c yS p on s o r s : MERCK FROSST EMPLOYEES CHARITY

TRUST FUND

LAVAL ROTARY CLUB

CANADA POST

DOMTAR

Come help us celebrate our students achievementsand our volunteers committment to literacy!!
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I was fortunate to have been one of the sev-enty-one participants attending LIfIAsThirdPanAmerican ePortfolio Forum in Vancou-ver, back in April. There were speakers and

presenters from all around the world, including most parts of NorthAmerica, Mexico, The Netherlands, Australia, The UK, and Venezuela.I had the opportunity to learn about e-portfolios and their use inmany educational and business environments, as well as to make inter-esting new contacts with colleagues from other parts of the world. Itwas truly a one-of-a-kind working forum for all involved!

Id also like to say thanks to Nancy at Literacy BCfor taking me on atour of their large office space in downtown Vancouver!

Donna Adrian

President

On Valentines Day, my Achilles tendon tore, and

I fell down several stairs in the Metro. I wasfortunate to have some very caring people whohelped me, called the ambulance, and looked af-ter me in the hospital. I spent eight weeks inbed, and last week, when the doctor changed my

heavy plaster cast for a lighter weight fibreglass-walking cast, I wasthrilled, I would be able to do things again help prepare meals, gooutside, live my life again, But, when the doctor told me to stand, Iwas terrified. My good leg hadnt been used in eight weeks, the mus-cles were weak, and the pain in my leg was dreadful. I began to thinkabout the challenges that lay ahead, the fear of the unknown, the ef-

fort that physiotherapy would require, and my self-confidence faded.As I write this, I have been walking with a cast and using a walker forone week. I am facing at least two months of physiotherapy, and ayear wearing a brace before I will walk again with ease.

As I think about the challenges I have to face, I think about thechallenges that our students have faced in admitting their difficultyto read and write, in seeking help, and in facing their fears. My chal-lenges are nothing, compared to theirs, and I am in awe of theirstrength of character. I am also proud of our caring volunteers, who,weekly, challenge themselves to prepare interesting lessons, which

encourage their students to succeed.

Karen MocklerAdministrative Assistant

Thank you to everyone formaking this another great year for me at The LearningExchange. A reminder to ourVolunteers to hand in their

volunteer hour worksheets.Also lets not forget our Cele-bration Evening on May 10th atLa Sirne on St. Martin Boule-vard. I hope you all have agreat summer and look for-ward to seeing you again inSeptember!

Presidents Message

Karens Korner

NEWS AND VIEWSPage 2

From the Executive Directors Desk

T L E S t a f f : Darlene Brown Executive Director

Karen Mockler AdministrativeAssistant

Jacklyn Freed-man-Spector

CommunicationsDirector

Diane Richard Financial Officer

Donna Adrian President

Mona Arsenault Past President

Beverly Beauchamp Vice-President

Beth Green Secretary

Christiane Dabbagh Treasurer

Stephen Shore Director

T L E B o a r d o f


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Alan J. PowellVolunteer

Over the past three months an enthusiastic group of new and recycled trainee tu-tors has been together for five sessions with Darlene Brown and Jacklyn Freed-

man-Spector to absorb the benefits of their years of experience in literacy

training. The sessions ranged from literacy statistics, reading, writing and learn-ing styles to video illustrations of the difficulties faced by learning disabled stu-dents. It was easy to relate to some of these difficulties after three months of

tutoring to secondary I to III adult education students in Jackies math classes. The students inthese classes seem to be making good progress, after some initial reluctance to hit the books.

The final session of the tutor training, reviewed the learning styles discussed in the first four ses-sions, together with some new graphics materials for assembling topics in essays of different types.The last hour of the course was spent in the computer lab, familiarizing the class with a website de-voted to literacy and associated topics. The class was presented with graduation certificates and anode to volunteers written by Jackie to celebrate the course completion. Our thanks are due to Dar-lene and Jackie for the extra load that they carry in this leadership role in TLE.

Tutor Training Continues at The Learning Exchange

Beverly BeauvaisVolunteer

Our May book sale will take place on Wednes-day, May 3rd 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. near thecafeteria.Our last sale for the year will be Tuesday,June 6th. At this sale our hardcover books willbe priced at $0.50 each as a special year-endbonus!! Come by and see our varied titles.Thank you to all those who have donated booksand to those who have stopped by to purchasebooks this year. Happy Summer reading!!

Beverly BeauvaisVolunteer

The Reading Circle will meet onTuesday, May 2nd at 7:30 p.m.in room D103 to discuss MiriamToews' SWING LOW. Our ani-

mator will be Davy-Belle McMorran. Our finalmeeting for this year will be Tuesday, June 6th.Our discussion leader will be Carol Ann Colling-wood and our book selection is ICY SPARKS byGwyn Hyman Rubio.

Book Club NewsBook Sales

Small to large boxes are needed for June packing. Please contact Karen if you can get boxesfor us. We need good, solid boxes with lids or ones we can close. Boxes should not be too big!!


Id like to wel-come our latestgroup of gradu-ating volunteertutors to TheLearning Ex-

change family!Congratulations!


TLE Volunteersare BEARY

special!!

Special Thanks was sent out to all of our vol-

unteers, in the form of a little stuffed bearand hand-stamped note, in recognition of ourvolunteers during Volunteer AppreciationWeekin April. We couldnt do it without you!!

Welcome to TLEThank you Volunteers!

New volunteers: from left to right:Back: Jose, Alan, Sonya, , Anthoula, Rigoula

Front: Nancy, Mary, Cynthia, Efterpi


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$10 $15 $20 $25 Other $

Were on the web!

www.nald.ca/thelearningexchange

Give the Gift of Reading

Yes! I want to help support TLEs literacy efforts. Im enclosing my donation of:

Name & address of donor:

E x c e l l e n c e i n L i t e r a c y 2 0 0 5 / 2 0 0 6C a mp a i g n

If you would like to make a gift of literacy

in someones name or memory pleaseinclude his/her name and address with thisreply card and we will send them a

gift/donation notice.

Please return this reply card along with your donation to The Learning Exchange.TLEs charitable number is 89335 1767 RR 0001. Make cheque payable to The Learning Exchange.

*Please indicate with a checkmark which name and address for the receipt.

*Receipt

*ReceiptName & address for gift/donation notice:

National Adult Literacy Database NALD

Through the World Wide Web, the National AdultLiteracy Database (NALD) provides high quality,comprehensive resources for literacy, numeracyand workplace essential skills training to learnersand those who teach them. NALDs online resources

are available to anyone, at no cost, in both French and English.

NALD is establishing a Document Conversion Lab to expand itsvery modest capacity to convert materials and post them to theweb. The Lab will feature 12 workstations where staff can digitizematerial, convert it to HTML and PDF, and post it to the Internetin a manner that meets international standards. It will give moredevelopers of materials a means to get their work to the peoplewho need it.

Last year, there were more than 2.8 million downloads of docu-ments in PDF format from the NALD site, by more than 5.9 million

users and 22 million pages were viewed in HTML format. NALDspartners can play many roles in launching the Document ConversionLab, by providing equipment, facilities and other in-kind support,as well as by providing financial support.

To contact NALD : 1-800-720-6253Email : [email protected] : www.nald.ca

News from NALDNEWS AND VIEWS

Literacy Links is Here!!

Check this out:

www.recitfga.qc.ca/english/activities/

sitsat-2006/Darlene-Borwn

Time to Pack!!

Packing VolunteersWanted

TLE will be changing rooms for the fall.

This means we need to pack in June!

We are asking for volunteers, students,

family or friends to help pack room D110on the following dates: June 16, 19, 20.

Call Karen if you are interested to help out!
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