1. Adult ESOL Lynda Terrill Technical Assistance and Web Coordinator CAELA Network Center for Applied Linguistics Washington, DC Decreasing the Digital Divide in Adult Education, Family Literacy, and English to Speakers of Other Languages

2. 2 CAELA Network/Center for Applied Linguistics Technology and Adult ESL Working together for common goals: CAELALINCS NCFLALRC OTAN Project Ideal TESOLREEP Center for Literacy Studies Thinkfinity VALRC and many more and more to come

3. 3 CAELA Network/Center for Applied Linguistics Who we are Center for Applied Linguistics http://www.cal.org Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, (CAELA) http://www,cal.org/caela CAELA Network http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork Cultural Orientation Resource Center http://www.cal.org/co

4. 4 CAELA Network/Center for Applied Linguistics Serving Our Audience Web sites Our work with states User service requests Technical assistance Our link to LINCS

5. 5 CAELA Network/Center for Applied Linguistics CAELA Web site http://www.cal.org/caela Tools ESL resources Research Ask CAELA Links Newsletter

6. 6 CAELA Network/Center for Applied Linguistics URLs http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/usetech.html http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/linkscriteria.html http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/softwareval.html http://www.cal.org/caela/research/raell.pdf http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/collections/reading.html http://www.cal.org/caela/scb/guide.html http://www.cal.org/caela/scb/hawaii.html http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/healthindex.html http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/languageinstructionEng.pdf

7. 7 CAELA Network/Center for Applied Linguistics CAELA Network Website http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork Resource database CAELA network states Professional development resources Ask the expert Glossary

8. 8 CAELA Network/Center for Applied Linguistics Conclusions Its all interconnected (44.3% ESL, 39.4%ABE, 16.3%ASE; OVAE enrollment year 04-05) At least two strands of the digital divide: learners and practitioners; decreasing for both, but issues remain Times have changed, but…

9. 9 CAELA Network/Center for Applied Linguistics Finally, Thank you for attending this panel presentation For further information, please go to www.cal.org/caela www.cal.org/caelanetwork or contact me at lterrill@cal.orglterrill@cal.org Thanks, Lynda