Together we will explore how Google Sites can be used to set up and manage websites. We will take a closer look at embedding videos, documents, and forms as well.

The recording is no longer available but you can view the slides.

During this webinar, these topics were dicussed:

• How to set up surveys using Google Forms.
• Sample surveys created by Simcoe County District School Board.
• Extracting instructor and learner feedback data.
• Tips for creating meaningful, easy-to-use forms.  

Navigating online surveys is becoming more common for learners as programs assess clients and gather feedback.

This webinar will outline a lesson plan that helps learners use survey and assessment tools to help them build their confidence and skills to complete them independently . The lesson plan integrates customizable surveys in SurveyMonkey and Google Forms. During this webinar, we will also discuss valuable information about clients’ use of digital survey tools as well as their preferences and best practices.

Protopage is a free and easy-to-use RSS reader, Internet start page and virtual desktop. If you have ever wished to be able to easily collect, store and find web pages, bookmarks and notes, then Protopage is the tool for you. Learn how easy it is to stay on top of what’s happening in adult education, technology and the world. This tool also allows you to easily save bookmarks and notes all in one place and for free!

During this 2017 webinar we explore the digital skills needed for employment, education and independence:

• What digital skills employers expect?

• What digital skills are essential for success in post secondary?

• What digital skills do we need to navigate the world every day?

This 2017 webinar provides an overview of Dropbox and how it can be used as an alternative for an internal network that enables resources sharing and back up of files.

Dropbox and Google have competed to provide cloud storage and file sharing. We review how Dropbox works and what makes it different from Google Drive. We have a quick look at productivity tools and sharing features before outlining how Dropbox has been used in LBS programs to create a local “network”.

No more getting that USB stick and going from one lab computer to the next to copy learning activities. We look at how you can “network” computers with Dropbox, how you can share folders and files, and how you can use Dropbox as an automatic and remote backup.

Tech Tuesday: Reading and Writing with Google (guest presenter Danielle Gignac)

DLI Tech Tuesday: Using Evernote with low-level adult literacy students – success story

Use Quizlet to create online activities and tests.

These Essential Skills Ontario (the Ontario anglophone stream organization from 1987 to 2015) sample activities were developed to introduce learners and practitioners to the concept of problem solving within technology rich environment (PS – TRE).

While there are a number of considerations for PS – TRE, the three core dimensions of PS – TRE are:

• A task or problem to solve
• Consideration of technologies through which the problem can be solved
• A process by which the problem is solved

These sample tasks are aligned with the OALCF (Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework) in that they demonstrate a task – based approach, where goal related tasks and learning activities reflect actual real world use and purposes and reflect a learner’s needs and interests and that demonstrate that they can achieve desired results by drawing on their own toolbox of digital technologies and mental processes. PS – TRE assumes that basic digital and technical skills are already known and they are considered a prerequisite for successful resolution of a problem or task.