judith green wrote: > I second Andy Carvin's Hmmm and comments. > > This site does not represent state of the art work on literacy. It > would be good to link that site with Google Scholar to support the > intellectual basis for current research on literacy and to > professional sites of the National Council of Teachers of English and > the International Reading Association, whose materials for classrooms > are peer reviewed and intellectually sound.
http://www.google.com/literacy/ *is* linked to Google Scholar: second link from the top of the left menu is Scholar <http://www.google.com/literacy/scholar.html>. And <http://www.google.com/literacy/scholar.html> gives both search results for the words and phrases "reading skills" "learning to read" "phonological awareness" "adult literacy" "dyslexia" "literacy and technology" in google scholar - and a google scholar search windows. > There are parallel > organizations in other countries that provide conceptually and > pragmatically sound programs for teachers and students (NATE in UK > and in Australia to name one). > http://www.ncte.org/ They have an enewsletter > http://www.ncte.org/about/over/inbox > http://www.reading.org/ They have an on-line journal that focuses on > technology -- Reading Online http://www.readingonline.org/ Of course the links you give are very important, Judith. But - sorry if I repeat myself - http://www.google.com/literacy is *only the Google part* of this literacy project, the part about using search tools to find materials about literacy. UNESCO Lifelong Learning is another partner in this project, and it is likely to offer human- and even scholar-gathered/created resources about literacy (I don't know about the third partner, the Frankfurt Book Fair's Literacy campaign, except for what is on their <http://www.litcam.org/> site). Besides, according to <http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061004/wr_nm/media_google_literacy_dc>, i.e. the competition: "...Google has asked literacy groups around the world to upload video segments explaining and demonstrating their successful teaching programs. Among the first few hundred to be posted is a same-language subtitle project from India that uses Bollywood films to teach reading. A nonprofit group in New York called 826NYC is helping a group of six-to-nine-year-olds make a video tutorial for Google, while a set of older kids is filming a claymation short. "When our students see the Web as something they can contribute to -- rather than just browse through -- they're inspired to think bigger, write more and film more," said Joan Kim, the group's director of education. The service also uses Google's mapping technology to help literacy organizations find each other, and provides links to reading resources. ..." So the Literacy Project portal is also an incentive for the production of more resources on literacy ;-) Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
