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Rob McBride

It’s Now Much Easier to Transfer Files Between Tutela and Avenue

The Avenue team is happy to announce a leap forward in the ease and convenience of transferring eLearning resources from the Tutela repository to the Avenue.ca learning management system. Teachers with both Tutela and Avenue accounts can now reach into Tutela to grab Word or PDF documents, media files, or eLearning objects like H5Ps or SCORMs and add them to their Avenue course. Refer to

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Rob McBride

Navigating Language Instruction in the Digital Age

An Avenue Video Testimonial from a LINC Professional Swati Sinha is a passionate and dedicated ESL instructor with extensive experience teaching in India and in Canada. Currently, she teaches both in-person and online at various levels in the LINC program at COSTI Immigrant Services. In spring 2024 New Language Solutions commissioned an expert team to profile a LINC professional who implements Avenue in their teaching.

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Rob McBride

Coming in 2025: Language Volunteer Preparation for Newcomers in the Workplace

The Avenue – LearnIT2teach Project offers more than an online teaching and learning platform for settlement language training; Since 2018 we have also offered training and resources for language volunteers working with newcomers. New Language Solutions is growing that volunteer training to include preparing volunteers to support newcomers in employment preparation or the workplace. We will be piloting this latest iteration of volunteer training in

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Rob McBride

Major New Release: Avenue Standards for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL)

New Language Solutions is pleased to announce the release of our new learning technology standards. All concerned in their development hope the standards will benefit instructors, learners and programs in the settlement language training sector. The NLS team wants to reinforce the good practices sector pros already engage in and inspire them to reflect, explore and go deeper. These standards are not performance evaluation tools

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Jeremy Cole

New LearnIT2teach Course: Avenue Basics for Supply Teachers

This 3- to 4-hour course prepares teachers to facilitate an Avenue course in the Instructor (non-editing) role. Teachers with this role in a course can show and hide content, move content on the course page, but they cannot edit the courseware. The Instructor (non-editing) role is ideal for supply teachers who need to fill in for teachers with their own Avenue courses who must take

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Jeremy Cole

Avenue Leadership Training, Part 1

What is it? How to sign up? Grow your learning tech skills with a community of LINC colleagues Engage with videos, readings, audio podcasts and discussion forums Dive deep on learning technology standards frameworks Interpret innovations and leadership theories for your local program Sample the worlds of Universal Design for Learning and the SAMR model Develop a strategic plan to improve local learning technology uptake

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Jeremy Cole

National LINC Online Curriculum and Online PBLA (NLOC) Project – User Testing

Calling all LINC instructors: Opportunity to test new NLOC courseware! If you are a LINC instructor on avenue.ca and you’d like to add PBLA-aligned units to your course next semester, the National LINC Online Curriculum Project is pleased to share that more ready-made content will be made available for testing. This winter, Achēv is seeking LINC instructors to test up to three CLB-4 e-Units. Your feedback is

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Jeremy Cole

PBLA eUnits/Modules on Avenue

The following PBLA-compatible modules are available on Avenue. Teachers can request any of these modules through their mentor and preview them in the PBLA Sample Modules course (available on their Dashboard). Grocery Shopping (CLB 1L-2L)Dealing with Emergencies (CLB 1L-2L)Finding a Place to Live (CLB 1L-2L)Numbers (CLB 1L-2)Canadian Money (CLB 1L-2)A Calendar (CLB 1L-2)A Child’s Education (CLB 1L-2L) Saving Money When Shopping (CLB 1)Back-to-School Shopping (CLB

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