LINGUIST List 11.655

Wed Mar 22 2000

FYI: Website/Lang Resources, NSF Funding Programs

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • info, New Website/'eLr' - Extra Language Resources
  • Ball, Catherine, NSF Funding Announcements: SBE Infrastructure, IGERT, IT Workforce

    Message 1: New Website/'eLr' - Extra Language Resources

     Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:23:37 +1100
    From: info <infoelr.com.au>
    Subject: New Website/'eLr' - Extra Language Resources


    Dear Colleague,

    As a fellow Speech Pathologist or language/literacy specialist, I invite you to visit eLr ("Extra Language Resources"), an interactive resources Web site, http://www.elr.com.au . A free trial is available at http://www.elr.com.au/elrtrial.htm via a temporary registration (you may request another any time you wish).

    eLr currently has over 2,000 separate interactive activities, each comprising multiple items, covering some 425 target areas in Phonology, Phonemic Awareness and Reading and Spelling. New activities are continually being prepared - for example, we are currently working on Semantics, which will include additional activities for acquired (aphasia) and developmental language disorders. The eLr site features both PCS and COMPIC pictographs, as well as many text based exercises.

    This site and all activities have been produced by myself (Toni Seiler) and Anna Breakell (practicing Speech Pathologists) and my husband Rob Seiler, a computer programmer. Our aim is to provide speech, language and literacy specialists, teachers and parents with a comprehensive set of resources which can be accessed anywhere directly from the Web.

    Subscribers to the site are able to open each specific task(s) from an on-line, goal orientated Directory, and are also able to provide their own clients free "Guest" access to enable home practice. All users have immediate access to new materials or revisions as they occur.

    To use eLr, you will need MS Internet Explorer (version 4.1 or higher) for Windows as the eLr site relies extensively on dynamic HTML features that other browsers and operating systems do not yet offer. To get a better understanding of our design principles and clinical usage we suggest you also read -

    "eLr Design Principles" - http://www.elr.com.au/support/design.htm "Hints for using eLr" - http://www.elr.com.au/support/elrhints.htm and "FAQ's" - http://www.elr.com.au/support/elrfaq.htm

    We would welcome any feedback and please feel free to add a link to eLr on your site if you wish.

    Thank you

    Toni Seiler, B Sp Path (Univ Qld, Aus), MS Sp Path (Ithaca College, NY) Rob Seiler, PhD (Cornell Univ, NY), Dip Comp Sc (Deakin Univ, Aus) Anna Breakell, B App Sc - Sp Path (LaTrobe Univ, Aus)

    (Directors, ELR Software Pty Ltd) Extra Language Resources "Speech and Language Resources for the World"

    ... Web: http://www.elr.com.au ... e-mail: infoelr.com.au ... voice: +61 (3) 5156 8309 ... fax: +61 (3) 5156 8609

    ELR Software Pty Ltd PO Box 1456 Bairnsdale VIC 3875 Australia

    Message 2: NSF Funding Announcements: SBE Infrastructure, IGERT, IT Workforce

     Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:19:22 -0500
    From: Ball, Catherine <cballnsf.gov>
    Subject: NSF Funding Announcements: SBE Infrastructure, IGERT, IT Workforce


    Dear Colleagues at US Institutions,

    The National Science Foundation has just announced the following three programs, which will be of interest to linguists and language scientists:

    Title: Enhancing Infrastructure for the Social and Behavioral Sciences Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: NSF-wide, Social/Behavioral Sciences http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0079

    Title: Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: Biology, Computer/Information Sciences, Education, Engineering, Geosciences, Math/Physical Sciences, NSF-wide, Polar Programs, Social/Behavioral Sciences http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0078

    Title: Information Technology Workforce -- Dear Colleague Letter Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: Computer/Information Sciences, Education, Engineering, NSF-wide, Social/Behavioral Sciences http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0077

    -- Cathy Ball - -------------------------------------------------------- Catherine N. Ball, Ph.D. Program Director, Linguistics Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences National Science Foundation Rm. 995, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington VA 22230 Phone: 703-306-1731 Fax: 703-306-0485 cballnsf.gov http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/ling/ Attn PIs: FastLane submission req'd as of Oct. 1 2000! - ---------------------------------------------------------