National Online Repository and Community of Practice

Created by Free resource funded by CIC and the provinces Created by Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc., developer of community websites for many organizations, e.g. Export Development Canada, Sustainable Prosperity Initiative (U of Ottawa), HEDON Household Energy Network (UK-based) Seed content coordinated and collected by the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks, involving content from a range of source content organizations

Content Source Organizations Contacted to Date AMSSA (BC), Government of BC, ELSA Net, Best of the Reader, ATESL, Immigrate Manitoba, CBC Manitoba, Canadian Council on Learning, CBC Ottawa, NALD, ROLLR, Settlement.org, ISIS (Nova Scotia), CCLB Contributions are welcome from any organization or individual and can be submitted directly using the Tutela.ca website

Content Features For ESL professionals (rather than learners) Canadian content (some exceptions, i.e. research) CLB-referenced LINC-referenced (and provincial equivalents, i.e. ELSA) Useful to ESL professionals working in Canada

When Tutela.ca Goes Live, it will Have a full-time manager who will coordinate community participation and content contribution Welcome different types of contributors, no matter how short or long term Retain contributions and ideas in an ever- changing reality Enable new contributors to learn quickly by example

Tutela.ca manager will support local and regional user groups Meetings could be in conjunction with other conferences There will also be regular online webinars o Basic introductions to Tutela.ca o How to use more advanced features

Contacts We can be reached at  Nelson Ko, President, Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc.  Colette Pépin, Project Manager, CCLB