Useful Links
This page contains various links that may be useful to all Devon ACL tutors.
Equality South West: http://www.equalitysouthwest.org.uk/our-networks.html - useful information about equality issues (age, disability, gender, religion etc).
QIA Excellence Gateway: http://excellence.qia.org.uk/- gives information on improving (even further) various aspects of teaching & learning. The initials stand for Quality Improvement Agency.
Equality and Diversity information, advice and resources - two areas from the Excellence Gateway: http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=edsupport and http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=edresource
Embedding Numeracy and Literacy into your course: A wide range of useful info and advice about this (and ESOL too) is available in the 'online SfL core curriculum' area of the QIA excellence gateway. To view it go to http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/sflcurriculum There is a simple registration process before you can first access the info. If the link above doesn't work, go to http://excellence.qia.org.uk then click 'Skills for LIfe' and 'Skills for Life Core Curriculum'.
Accessibility and ICT - see separate page in this Moodle ('All Tutors - Accessibility and ICT') for websites on this.
SMOG readability calculator: there are a number of on-line calculators that will run a SMOG analysis on a piece of text to see how complex it is - and so indicate the literacy skills required to understand it. You can type 'SMOG readability' into Google, or use this SMOG calculator at the Niace website: http://www.niace.org.uk/misc/SMOG-calculator/smogcalc.php
Rowdy pub sessions in England and Yanggona ceremonial chants in Fiji: Rare recordings launched online in October 2009, thanks to JISC funding for the British Library’s archival sound recordings project. Some are restricted to licensed organisations (not DACL) but around 24,000 recordings are available to listen to for free. Music clips range from the lament of the organic gardener in Gloucestershire to songs in praise of oxen sung by Karamojong herders in remote villages of north eastern Uganda, offering a glimpse of cultural experience around the world: http://sounds.bl.uk