National Online Repository and Community of Practice

Created by• Free resource funded by CIC and the provinces

• Created by Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc., developer of community websites for many organizations, e.g. Export Development Canada, Sustainable Prosperity Initiative (U of Ottawa), HEDON Household Energy Network (UK-based)

• Seed content coordinated and collected by the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks, involving content from a range of source content organizations

Content Source Organizations Contacted to Date

• AMSSA (BC), Government of BC, ELSA Net, Best of the Reader, ATESL, Immigrate Manitoba, CBC Manitoba, Canadian Council on Learning, CBC Ottawa, NALD, ROLLR, Settlement.org, ISIS (Nova Scotia), CCLB

Contributions are welcome from any organization or individual and can be submitted directly using the Tutela.ca

website

Content Features• For ESL professionals (rather than

learners)• Canadian content (some exceptions,

i.e. research)• CLB-referenced• LINC-referenced (and provincial

equivalents, i.e. ELSA)Useful to ESL professionals working in

Canada

When Tutela.ca Goes Live, it will• Have a full-time manager who will

coordinate community participation and content contribution

• Welcome different types of contributors, no matter how short or long term

• Retain contributions and ideas in an ever-changing reality

• Enable new contributors to learn quickly by example

• Tutela.ca manager will support local and regional user groups

• Meetings could be in conjunction with other conferences

• There will also be regular online webinarso Basic introductions

to Tutela.cao How to use more

advanced features

ContactsWe can be reached at info@tutela.ca

Nelson Ko, President, Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc.nelson@citadelrock.ca

Colette Pépin, Project Manager, CCLB cpepin@language.ca