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26 Jul 2010
This tool generates Creative Commons HTML code for Flickr images. Search for images, or enter url and Creative Commons licence details will be retrieved automatically and correct licence and user details added as a caption to photo for easy embedding in websites, blogs, wikis or digital presentations.
21 Jul 2010
National Literacy and Numeracy Week [edna Resources]
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A Commonwealth initiative, developed in collaboration with the State and Territory Governments and the non-government education authorities to help raise community awareness of the importance of appropriate literacy and numeracy skills for all Australian students. The event, coinciding with International Literacy Day on 8 September, will showcase the work school communities in improving the literacy and numeracy skills of students. Information about school activities across Australia is availabl[..]
15 Jul 2010
Australian libraries and library associations have got together to turn 2012 into the National Year of Reading (NYOR), linking together all the great things that are already happening around books, reading and literacy, and giving them an extra boost, with inspirational programs and events taking place across the country.
12 Jun 2010
The Indigenous Literacy Project is a partnership between The Fred Hollows Foundation, the Australian Publishers Association (APA), and the Australian Booksellers Associtation (ABA) with the goal to raise urgently needed funds for literacy for remote Indigenous communities. The Foundation projects use a three-way approach to promote cultural literacy, practical literacy and English literacy. Information on how to support the campaign is provided for the book industry, authors, schools, and busine[..]
23 May 2010
The Kids Are Alright! Why Digitization and E-books are Good for Literacy
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Can e-books help us achieve 100% literacy?
Great little YouTube video on here showing child with ipad
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Helen Eddy
Thanks for this article Helen. It encapsulates a lot of what I have been looking for
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Kerrie Smith
10 May 2010
Check out my author site for today's blog on 'Getting ideas for stories' http://sherylgwyther4kids.wordpress.com
07 May 2010
Digital world of young children: Emergent literacy [edna Resources]
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This research paper explores the ways in which young people's learning and expression are being shaped by mobile and digital technologies, including cell phones, television, video games, smart devices, and computers. According to this report, digital media is already transforming the language and cultural practices that enable early literacy development, making possible a new kind of personal and global interconnectedness.
27 Apr 2010
The digital world of young children: impact on emergent literacy / Jay Blanchard & Terry Moore
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Executive Summary. Some great questions: Will children?s neural circuitry develop at younger ages in response to early exposure to digital media, resulting in amplified visual or auditory processing systems and increased cognitive flexibility?
19 Apr 2010
Leading to Reading provides fun audio texts and games for toddlers and preschoolers. Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. prepares and motivates children to read by delivering free books and literacy resources to those children and families who need them most. All RIF programs combine three essential elements to foster children's literacy: reading motivation, family and community involvement, and the excitement of choosing free books to keep.
This scholarship program aims to provide an incentive for individuals to enter the adult LLN practitioner field by supporting them to undertake approved study towards an adult LLN practitioner qualification. It targets individuals with no prior qualifications as teachers or trainers, vocational trainers, and individuals with prior relevant training wishing to gain an adult LLN specialisation with the intention of entering the field. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply. Scholarships pro[..]
Alison Hall
25 Mar 2010
Larry Ferlazzo's site is a US teacher who focusses on ESL literacy, however his blog is a goldmine of resources: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
Susan Pitt
23 Sep 2008
Thanks I have just started a blog and will use it that next term. The music has been interesting and the students have put the lyrics onto the wiki and commented on others and lyrics. Look forward to getting the blog up and running.
Sue
Peta Hill
15 Sep 2008
What about blogging? For my course I have had to blog about what I have been learning, problems I have encountered and how I am going with the program. I also had to reply to the blogs of others. Sometimes our course facilitators would give us specific topics to address in our blogs. This has the learners engaged with another communication application, using the computer and analysing their learning. Hope this helps.
Another option would be to post the lyrics to a song on your blog, and ask the students to comment on it, likes/dislikes, possible moral to the story, how the lyrics may be personally relevant, etc.
Hope this helps.
Susan Pitt
8 Sep 2008
I am interested in using technology with adult basic education students at TAFE. My students are currently making a wiki to present their research on music. Some very interesting classroom discussions have reulted from listening to student music choices and examining the lyrics.
Rebecca Nash
2 Aug 2008
I'm keen to find resources on supporting adult students (usually from China) with fossilised English. My students are taking a full-time course in another subject and I only have an hour, more or less, in a four-hour session per week to give them direct help with their English. The other three hours is taken up with helping them understand their core course notes and assignments. Any tips please?
Leigh Newton
12 Jan 2008
That should have read: "My students are NOT all that keen to edit their work." (prior to Google Docs)
Leigh Newton
12 Jan 2008
I am impressed with Google Docs for their use in the classroom from primary through to adult education. While it is only a simple word processing application, its primary purpose is for collaboration. Students can select collaborators (always including the teacher first) who then have permission to correct, comment, add. My students are all that keen to edit their work but peer-editing via Google Docs is a lot more fun.
There is a "Teacher Crib Sheet for Docs" (pdf) available (it will come up when you search for it). This is a set of teacher notes to instruct a class in how to set up an account and how to use the main features. It's well worth the experiment to improve on peer-editing.
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