2017 Lit Up! Literacy Forum

The NSW literacy working group is pleased to present this year’s free literacy forum and book fair for public library staff.

Lit Up! The 2017 Literacy Forum State Library of NSW Monday 11 September 2017

Follow the title links to view the presentations via Google drive or click to view the video of the presentations.

PROGRAMME 9.30 for 10am start

10.00 – 10.05 Welcome from the State Library

10.05 – 10.45 Professor Geraldine Castleton, ACU -On being literate: a feeling as well as a fact

10.45 – 11.05 [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Ot2IIFGfC0daqklW5T0qeo9njynJA83/view?usp=sharing|Dr Stephen Black – UTS - Social capital benefits of literacy education]] (min 34.59)

11.05 – 11.25 [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dzo7aQaOVTL4VatWu-YZ4QGaVZpLeiGN/view?usp=sharing|Dr Keiko Yasukawa - Stories of Resilience project]] (min 100.20)

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SzCox98GO8&list=PLX9Ge90k3DMXVg3cKkjk0diE54NG5Z72h&index=2|Click here for video of session one]]


11.25 – 12.00 [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/17qNGWLdeFDiyyiJVz4Dwnr7rxk_hVgGK/view?usp=sharing|Assoc. Professor (adjunct) Kaye Lowe – Understanding the reading process and supporting adults to read]]

12.00 – 12.20 [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iWpk6iNl3MqZFKc_qgrEHcKioDlLecXU/view?usp=sharing|Pamela Osmond – Current challenges for adult literacy: the role of the Reading Writing Hotline and Libraries]](min 36.00)

12.20 - 12.35 [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/172P6NpjwRmBhT70uuFRb2HDjVSZfZVrW/view?usp=sharing|Kemal Serdar - Auburn Library conversation classes]] (min 55.30)

12.35 – 12.50 [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ATA2ghPirXus22KXq0Trqee88q6Pgf7c/view?usp=sharing|Kate Jones & Donna Guiver -Volunteer tutoring online course – Great Lakes TAFE]] (min 1.11.30)

12.50 – 1.00 Lynsey Chandler - literacy volunteer tutor (not recorded by request)

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01rpEHfljWc&index=1&list=PLX9Ge90k3DMXVg3cKkjk0diE54NG5Z72h|Click here for video of session one.]]