New and Noteworthy
- March 13, 2005: Literacy Wiki launches on LiteracyTent
- March 12, 2005: New site: Adult Literacy Resource Institute
- March 11, 2005: New site: Holyoke Family Literacy
News
Literacy Wiki launches on LiteracyTent
March 13, 2005
LiteracyTent is very proud to host the exciting new Adult Literacy Education Wiki. The brainchild of prominent adult educator and researcher David Rosen, this is a fantastic and growing resource providing information about adult literacy education. Check it out, and get involved!
New site: Adult Literacy Resource Institute (SABES Boston)
March 12, 2005
Welcome the Adult Literacy Resource Institute (SABES Boston) to the LiteracyTent Hosted Sites. Glad to have them!
The Adult Literacy Resource Institute (A.L.R.I.) is a program and staff development center for adult literacy / basic education and English for speakers of other languages programs in the Greater Boston area. It is part of the Graduate College of Education at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Education, and the Mayor's Office of Jobs and Community Services in Boston, it is one of five regional support centers of the Massachusetts System for Adult Basic Education Support, SABES.
New site: Holyoke Family Literacy
March 11, 2005
Holyoke Family Literacy of Holyoke, MA, joins the LiteracyTent hosted sites!
The Holyoke Pathways to Family Success/Family Literacy initiative works with education and social service providers to coordinate and integrate services by focusing on the entire family. Monthly meetings of the Holyoke Family Literacy Coalition create collaborations to implement Pathway's goals and deliver services more holistically to families.
New site: Juntos Collaborative
November 17, 2004
Our latest hosted site announcement is the Juntos Collaborative of Holyoke, MA. Welcome aboard!
"Juntos" is Spanish for "together", and to collaborate is to work together for a common goal. The Juntos Collaborative is a group of adult education programs that share the goal of helping adults in Holyoke to get a free, high-quality education. The partners offer coordinated, comprehensive course sequences in Bilingual/Native Language Literacy, English ABE/ASE, and ESOL, along with counseling/referral services including college and vocational transition, to adult learners in Holyoke. We have been sharing an Adult Basic Education grant from the Massachusetts Department of Education since 1995.
New site: Grassroots Literacy Coalition
November 8, 2004
LiteracyTent is pleased to announce the launch of the latest hosted site: the Grassroots Literacy Coalition of New York City!
From its description:
The Grassroots Literacy Coalition is a group of students, teachers and administers who are fighting for the creation of an adult education system that would truly serve all of the people who need adult education in New York City. Our members volunteer their time to plan conferences, conduct workshops, attend rallies and organize people interested in the future of adult education in this country.
Stop on by and visit them!
LiteracyTent Updates
November 7, 2004
We've been somewhat slow about announcing updates over the very busy summer, but are finally back on track. There are several new hosted sites and we'll be announcing them this week, and we also have some updated webhosting plans and information that will be announced shortly.
It's been a hectic few months, but hectic in a good way. :) More announcements over the coming weeks.
Free online course system
May 13, 2004
LiteracyTent is pleased to announce that beginning June 1, 2004, the open-source Moodle online course system will be made available as a free service to literacy providers, educators, and professional developers.
Offering this as a free service is in keeping with LiteracyTent's goals of providing affordable technical services to the field of adult literacy, and particularly to small programs and inviduals with very limited resources.
For more information, see the Online Courses section.
New webmail services
April 20, 2004
LiteracyTent has added webmail to its list of hosted services.
Hosted sites can now add mail services to their domains if they wish. Mail services include access to a webmail system that allows email to be read and written from any web browser on any computer. Secure mail-sending facilities for hosted sites are also available.
Pricing and information may be found on the Email pricing page.
LiteracyTent adds capacity
April 11, 2004
LiteracyTent has deployed additional server hardware to provide even more power and reliability to its services.
Because of the tremendous popularity of the mailing lists, we have deployed a dedicated mail server to handle them. This provides better overall performance, and we have used some of the additional power to add in a virus-scanning system and more aggressive anti-spam technology. It's running great and the improvements are dramatic.
Additionally, all hosted sites and services are now backed up daily in a custom, quadruply-redundant system.
All of this helps us provide an even more stable environment than we had previously, which was already no slouch: we did not have one minute of downtime in 2003. We take security and stability very seriously, and are pleased to have even more robust safeguards and power in place going into the second half of 2004.
