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What's New Archives: 2000

The OLRC Information System has archived the entries from the What's New page which are over three months old. This should help with searching the new resources and information, and sometimes entirely new site additions are on the What's New at the OLRC page.


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What's New Archives (2001)


Wednesday, December 20, 2000
For the Common Good has been updated with a Speaker/Presenter Roster (Contact Information for Speakers, Panel Members, and Presenting Local Teams) and Media Relations Guidebook for their 10th Anniversary Institute & Celebration. Also, their Fact Sheets has been updated with For the Common Good Collaboration Resource Guide
Tuesday, December 19, 2000
O-PAS has updated its site with New Information.

For the Common Good has been updated with a slideshow for their 10th Anniversary Institute & Celebration.


November 21, 2000
Complete List of Coming Events has been updated.

Ohio Early Childhood Conference 2000 photos have been added to the OLRC Pictures from Conferences and Workshops.


November 21, 2000
Complete List of Coming Events has been updated with new conferences for 2001.
November 17, 2000
ABLELink Access Version has updated the ABLELink Access Version: ABLELink Manual with the ABLELink Access Version 3 Manual broken down into sections.

O-PAS has added the Parent Observation Form (PDF) and Supporting Your Child's Formal Education Form (PDF) to the O-PAS: A-Z Site Index under the Family Literacy header.


November 15, 2000
Complete List of Coming Events has been updated.
November 14, 2000
Job Opportunities has been updated with an opening for the Literacy Coordinator Position at Nevada State Library & Archives
November 3, 2000
ABLELink Access Version 3 Manual has been added to the ABLELink Access Version website

The Northeast ABLE Resource Center Homepage has updated the ESOL/O-PAS Content Standards with ESOL Student Learning Strategies


November 2, 2000
The OLRC Teacher to Teacher publication has been updated with JIP: His Story and Slavery in America: A Thematic Unit Appropriate for Adult Literacy Classrooms.
October 30, 2000
The Northeast ABLE Resource Center has updated the Calendar of Events.
October 23, 2000
Complete List of Coming Events has been updated.
October 23, 2000
Coming Events has been updated with International Conference on Women and Literacy coming January 22-24, 2001.

Ohio Literacy Resource Center Personnel has been updated with two new graduate assistants, Beth Pickenpaugh and Chris McKeon.


October 10, 2000
Complete List of Coming Events has been updated.

O-PAS has updated its New Information.

The Northeast ABLE Resource Center has updated the ESOL/O-PAS Documentation Logs and Content Standards with new Content Standards.


October 9, 2000
Complete List of Coming Events has been updated.
October 5, 2000
Coming Events has been updated with Success and Profits through Training, a basic skills conference on October 17, 2000.
October 3, 2000
Complete List of Coming Events has been updated.
September 29, 2000
Complete List of Coming Events has been updated.
September 28, 2000
The Job Opportunities page has been updated with a position for Program Director, Columbus Literacy Council.
September 25, 2000
For the Common Good has updated its Guide to the State Common Good Team
September 21, 2000
The Complete List of Coming Events has been updated.
September 19, 2000
OLRC Pictures from Conferences and Workshops has been updated with pictures from the Ohio Family Literacy Conference 2000. This resource can be found listed on the Complete Site Index under the Pictures from Conferences and Workshops heading.
September 14, 2000
Parent Made Developmental Toys: Integrating Parenting, Self-Esteem, Literacy & Fun has been updated with four more activites in section three.
September 13, 2000
Parent Made Developmental Toys: Integrating Parenting, Self-Esteem, Literacy & Fun has been updated with three new activites in section three.

O-PAS has updated its site with new information. These updates can be found from the New Information page which will list when the site was updated, the information that was added and where this information can be found.


September 11, 2000
Northeast ABLE Resource Center has updated its site with the Cleveland Municipal Schools Curriculum Guide for the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages - August 2000.

Resource Centers Fiscal Year 2000 Final Project Report Form has been added to the OLRC: Ohio Department of Education Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) Information and can be found linked to the Complete Site Index under the Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) header.


September 6, 2000
Fall Directors' Meeting (00) Proceedings has been added. This page will link to copies ot the speakers' handouts after the meeting. You can find this located on the Complete Site Index under the Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) header.

Parent Made Developmental Toys: Integrating Parenting, Self-Esteem, Literacy & Fun has been updated with the completed first and second sections.

The Job Opportunities page has been updated with a position for Painesville City Schools ABLE Coordinator and for Executive Director, Knoxville-Oak Ridge Regional Network.

The Individual/Program Professional Development Plan (IPDP/PPDP) has been updated with the new 8-2000 revisions. This resource can be found linked from our Complete Site Index under the Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) and Individual/Program Professional Development Plan (IPDP/PPDP) headers.


August 24, 2000
Complete List of Coming Events has been updated.

O-PAS (Ohio Performance Accountability System is now online. You can find this site linked from our Complete Site Index and the ABLELink Access Version site.

OLRC Publications has been updated with the OLRC News, Volume 5 Number 2 , Tech Talk: Volume 5 Number 2 and five Program Resources (Recruitment and Retention, Collaboration: Working Together to Support Families, Collaboration: Working Together to Support Adult Learners, Getting Started with Family Literacy Issues and Ideas and Grant Writing Tips Available on the Internet). All publications are in pdf format.


August 23, 2000
For the Common Good has updated its Fact Sheets with the pdf version of 2000 Fact Sheet: Outcome Management: A Shifting Mindset
July 28, 2000
The Individual/Program Professional Development Plan (IPDP/PPDP) page (which can be found in alphabetical order from the OLRC Complete Site Index) has been updated with the Instructor Competencies: Self Assessment Instrument. This document is in Word format.
July 19, 2000
Northeast ABLE Resource Center has been updated with the ESOL-O-PAS Documentation Logs and Content Standards.
July 13, 2000
The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with the addition of the new ABLELink Access Version site. The ABLE Link FoxPro Version 1.3 site is still available.
July 10, 2000
There is a new addition to the OLRC website. We have added a OLRC Pictures from Conferences and Workshops section to display many of the pictures we take.
June 30, 2000
Eureka! has two new Teaching Strategies online listed under Other/Misc. Teaching Strategies. Please see Multicultural Books in Family Literacy Programs and Selecting Literature for Adults
June 20, 2000
For the Common Good has updated the Guide to the State Common Good Team.

The Job Opportunities page has been updated with an opening for Director, Central/Southeast Ohio Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) Resource Center.


June 12, 2000
Eureka! has been updated with some new Teaching Strategies online under Reading/Listening Teaching Strategies and Discussion/Problem Solving Teaching Strategies. See PreP, ReQuest, Think Alouds and Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy.
June 9, 2000
The ABLELink Help Site has been updated with the new ABLELink manual and APR manual for the new version of the program. This can be reached by way of the Downloads page.
June 8, 2000
Director Position for the Ohio Literacy Resource Center has been added to the Job Opportunities page.
June 6, 2000
There are three new OLRC Workshops online! Please see Advanced HTML, "I'm Finally On-line, Now What?" and Leadership which will be presented by Kimberly McCoy at this year's ALT 2000 conference.
May 26, 2000
ABLE Forms which has the student registration, student progress and student exit forms listed is now online! You can find this page linked from the ABLE Link Help Site.

Beyond Ourselves is now listed on the OLRC site and can be found linked from the Complete Site Index


May 25, 2000
Now online! State of Ohio Program Plan for Adult Basic and Literacy Education for the period July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2004 , Annual Report Highlights for Fiscal Year 1999, Impact Data Summary for Fiscal Year 1999 and Five Year Impact Data Summary for Fiscal Years 1995 - 1999. Yoou can find all of these documents on the ODE ABLE Information page linked from the Complete Site Index listed under the Ohio Literacy/Adult Education Agencies, Programs, and Projects (Ohio Contacts) heading.
May 24, 2000
Eureka! has updated its Teaching Strategies with Manzo's Guided Reading Procedure (Adaptation)
May 23, 2000
For the Common Good has been updated with the most recent Guide to the State Common Good Team and the newest Fact Sheet in pdf format, 2000 Fact Sheet: Local Linkage Team Case Studies.
May 22, 2000
Eureka! has updated its Teaching Strategies has even more strategies! You can now see Admit Slips and Exit Slips, Brainstorming Activities (Guidelines), Problem and Solution Outline and Text Frame, Semantic Mapping, Strategies to Support Collaboration and Unsent Letters.
May 16, 2000
The State and National Literacy/Adult Education Agencies and Projects page has added new and updated state literacy resource center links.
May 15, 2000
Teacher to Teacher Publications has been updated with Trade Book Teaching Ideas from the OLRC Reading Group: "What Jamie Saw" and Program Resources Publications has been updated with Tips for Writing Successful Grants and also Annotated Bibliography of Welfare Reform and Welfare to Work Resources.
May 10, 2000
Once again, the OLRC website has gone through a little remodelling. The Links & Directories button on the opening page will take you to information on Ohio, Regional and National literacy programs. The resources that were previously listed on the Links & Directories page has now been broken down into three categories/pages; Manager/Administrator Resources, Student/Learner Resources and Teacher/Tutor Resources. If you do not see a specific resource, please be sure to visit the Complete Site Index where all of our resources are listed in alphabetical order.
May 8, 2000
Teacher to Teacher Publications has been updated with the newest publication written by Lisa Collins, "But What Can I Do?" Helping Victims of Domestic Violence. There is also a new website developed around this publication, Domestic Violence Awareness Online, which lists many more resources on domestic violence awareness.
May 4, 2000
Eureka! has updated its Teaching Strategies with many new strategies! Check out Agree? Disagree? Why?, Sketch to Stretch, Literature Circles, and Copy Change and Matrices or Charts (also called Semantic Feature Analysis or Distinctive Features Activity).

Announcements has been updated with the Ohio Department of Education, Office of Career-Technical and Adult Education, Adult Basic and Literacy Education, Fiscal Year 2001 Grant Application in Word 97 and Adobe PDF formats.


April 11, 2000
Beginnings III has been updated with 2000 Ohio Writers' Conference Pictures.

Copyright on the Internet has been updated with new links on its Fair Use and Additional resources and Information on Copyright and the Internet pages


April 10, 2000
Beginnings III: 2000 Ohio Writer's Conference is now online! You can find this linked to our Complete Site Index and on the OLRC Publications page which list all of the publications the Ohio Literacy Resource Center publishes.
April 7, 2000
Eureka! has updated the Websites links for Writing Children's Literature and added a new category for Time Management.
March 28, 2000
The Announcements page has been updated with Applications for National Institute for Literacy Fellowships with its attached Literacy Leadership Fellowship Program 2000-2001 Fact Sheet.
March 27, 2000
The Job Opportunities page has been updated with Education Employee Consultant with Professional Development & Licensure, Columbus, OH.
March 22, 2000
For the Common Good has been updated with their March 2000, Volume 2, Number 3 newsletter. You can find this linked form their Newsletters page.
March 20, 2000
The Job Opportunities page has been updated with the Family Literacy Specialist Position Available. The deadline for this is March 24, 2000.

Dianna Baycich has been added to our Ohio Literacy Resource Center Personnel page. Welcome Dianna!

Literacy and Dependency: The Literacy Skills of Welfare Recipients in the United States (in PDF format) has been added to the Adult Literacy Fact Sheet publication list.

The Current Events page has been updated with Mister Rogers information and links. Happy Birthday Mister Rogers!

The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with a list of Programs Which Have Sent the Bi-Annual Report.


March 16, 2000
The OLRC News and Tech Talk have been updated with recent newsletters, OLRC News, Volume 4 Number 3, OLRC News, Volume 5 Number 1, the OLRC News Addition for Volume 5 Number 1, Tech Talk: Volume 4 Number 3 and Tech Talk: Volume 5 Number 1.
March 7, 2000
The Job Opportunities page has been updated with the Executive Director, Project: LEARN of Summit County. This has a deadline of Friday, March 10, 2000.
February 25, 2000
Current Events has added a new page on Cyber Stalking.
February 23, 2000
It is the third anniversary of the cloning of the sheep named Dolly. Check out the Current Events page for Cloning.
February 22, 2000
The Current Events page has been redesigned and updated! The new additions will now have their own page with more information. Today's current event is Mardi Gras.
February 21, 2000
Three additional newsletters have been added to our site. Please see Math Literacy Newsletter for the Fall 1997 (Volume 6) and Winter 1997 (Volume 5) newsletters and also OLRC News for the Spring 1999 (Volume 4 No. 2) issue.
February 17, 2000
Three newsletters have been added to our site. Please see Tech Talk for the Spring 1999 (Volume 4 No. 2) newsletter and also Math Literacy Newsletter for the Fall 1998 (Volume 7) and Winter 1999 (Volume 8) newsletters.
February 14, 2000
The Current Events have been updated with Charles Schulz/Peanuts and Valentine's Day sites.

The Job Opportunities page has been updated with the Corrections Education Specialist Position With Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.


February 11, 2000
The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with a list of Programs Which Have Sent the Bi-Annual Report.
February 4, 2000
Programs & Activities. This page will list many of the OLRC's special programs for 1999-2000 in detail.
February 3, 2000
There is a new section added to the OLRC website, Programs & Activities. This page will list many of the OLRC's special programs for 1999-2000 in detail.

The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with a list of Programs Which Have Sent the Bi-Annual Report.

The Policy and Legislation section has been merged with the old Legislative and Government Information. This new area is broken down into General Legislative Information, Laws, Acts and Initiatives, and Ohio Legislative Information.


February 2, 2000
The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with a list of Programs Which Have Sent the Bi-Annual Report.

EUREKA! has updated its Teaching Strategies page with two new strategies, Force Field Analysis and Suggestion Circles.

A new section has been added to the OLRC website. Please check out Policy and Legislation for Ohio and national government information.


February 1, 2000
The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with a list of Programs Which Have Sent the Bi-Annual Report.

The Facts and Statistics page has been updated with new information.


January 31, 2000
The Current Events page has been updated with many links to information on G2K, Groundhog Day 2000! This is the 113th anniversary of Punxsutawney Phil.

The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with a list of Programs Which Have Sent the Bi-Annual Report.


January 28, 2000
The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with a list of Programs Which Have Sent the Bi-Annual Report.
January 27, 2000
The Current Events page has been updated with snow!
January 26, 2000
The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with a list of Programs Which Have Sent the Bi-Annual Report.
January 25, 2000
The Current Events page has been updated with links to information on this Sunday's Super Bowl game.

The ABLE Link Help Site has been updated with a list of Programs Which Have Sent the Bi-Annual Report.


January 24, 2000
The Announcements page has been updated with information on the upcoming Leadership Development Institute 2000. You can also find the Registration Form (Word document) linked here.

The Recommended Trade Books for Adult Literacy Programs has been updated with more current information about how to use this resource.


January 21, 2000
As you may have already noticed, the OLRC website has gone through a major redesign in keeping with the new LINCS design. We still offer all the resources we did before although they may be located in a different place. If you are unsure where things are, please check out the Complete Site Index and take some time to explore the site a little bit. If you try to go to a particular page and get an error, please let us know.
January 20, 2000
The Recommended Trade Books for Adult Literacy Programs has gotten a whole new look! Please check often for the complete 5 volume database search which is being updated at this very moment.
January 14, 2000
Our newest site goes live! Check out EUREKA! for lesson plans (search our lesson plan database or submit a lesson plan of your own), teaching strategies, websites on many topics, trade books (our Recommended Trade Books for Adult Literacy Programs), software reviews and more! This site will grow continuiously so please check often.
January 12, 2000
The 2000 Ohio Writer's Conference has been updated with an online 2000 Ohio Writers' Conference Presentation Form.
January 5, 2000
The OLRC: Announcements page has been updated with information on the 2000 Ohio Writer's Conference







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