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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PLA releases digital literacy tutorials in Spanish<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Spanish speakers have access to digital literacy training resources now that all learning content on the PLA DigitalLearn.org website,
<a href="https://www.digitallearn.org/">https://www.digitallearn.org/</a> , is now available in Spanish. Visitors may access the site in Spanish by simply clicking the link marked “Espaņol” at the top of any page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">DigitalLearn.org is a collection of self-directed tutorials for end-users to increase their digital literacy. Feedback from public library staff directed PLA to
develop courses on the most basic skills, such as using a computer, navigating a web site, and searching. Modules are video-based with narration, 6 to 22 minutes long, written at the 4<sup>th</sup> grade reading level, and help learners practice skills like
using a mouse and setting up passwords. Nearly 60,000 users complete 15,000 modules each year on DigitalLearn.org.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">DigitalLearn.org also features a
<a href="http://community.digitallearn.org/" target="_blank" title="DigitalLearn.org Community of Practice (opens in new browser window/tab)">
community of practice</a> to help digital literacy trainers, library staff who are interested in digital literacy training, and others share information. From 2014 to early 2016, PLA had over 10,000 registered users on the community of practice, with over 400
posts to share information and seek resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">DigitalLearn.org was created in 2013 with support from the
<i>Institute of Museum and Library Services</i>. It is just one tool the Public Library Association, a division of ALA, offers to help its members make their libraries digital literacy learning centers.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shannon White<br>
Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Whites29@michigan.gov<o:p></o:p></p>
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