At the bus stop

27Nov10

For a town that looks like it has no migrants other than the doctors who come and go and those who run takeaway shops, I’ve met an awful lot of migrants lately! I kept wondering how they knew about us? I mean why is that with all their problems with language, they keep finding us [...]

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Reflecting on the last year.

15Aug10

This time last year I’d just started in my new job as literacy coordinator. I can remember sitting in a near- empty office with no guidance, no experience and no idea what to do. I had no tutors on my books, no tutors willing or able to come over from the Polytechnic, and no students. I knew [...]

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Blog to the rescue

06Jul10

Burnie LINC has been running a trial Work Readiness program. In one of our sessions we looked at using technology to write and upload reviews of items in our statewide collection. Some reviewed books, others DVDs and CDs. The interesting development was when a particpant asked if we knew how to make some super secure [...]

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That light makes your hair look awful!

23Jun10

I want to encourage everyone to take another look at the opportunities this blog and the Story Exchange can offer you both personally and professionally.  I suspect that for many of us we went to the first session thinking either one or all of the following: What does this have to do with my job? How does [...]

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Not just words.

10Jun10

Of course in an ideal world every person who accesses our service will be helped. Unfortunately that isn’t always the case. Recently the Polytechnic rang to ask if we could help a young man who’d failed to gain a place in one of their courses. He was described as, ‘nowhere near ready’. I assured them [...]

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Greg’s Story

05Jun10

Greg is a successful businessman. He’s a member of the local Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, sports clubs and sits on several boards. He has a blended family that includes 4 children (11 – 19) and just last month he and his wife celebrated the news of number 5 on the way! But over the last [...]

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Richard’s Story

02Jun10

Richard is 48. He has a job. He has a family. He can’t read or write. A couple of years ago his wife died. He went into the local paper to put the Death Notice in for the next day’s copy. At first he gave it a go on his own. Quite a few times.  He [...]

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Using Photostory3 as a literacy tool.

02Jun10

As part of the Work Readiness program at Burnie LINC, we’re offering a workshop to get the particpants writing. From one worders, to one liners we hope to build their confidence using pen and paper and IT. Much of the material they use as a springboard for writing will be from previous workshops. We hoped to [...]

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