Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site
Hi all, I agree with Andy (again). From a brief perusal it looks as if they are trying to use literacy to promote their own commercial interests, which is actually quite disenheartening. Wouldn't it be something if Google actually asked people working in literacy (they could start with the DDN .. ) what would be useful and supported that instead of trying to promote themselves by wrapping up their products under a literacy umbrella. As it is now, that is sadly a link I certainly won't be forwarding to colleagues. Andrew Pleasant On 10/4/06, Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... Surprised at how limited it is, both in terms of usefulness and in its definition of literacy -andy --- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi DDN community - google has launched a literacy web site. i haven't looked into it yet, but it looks like it might have value. http://www.google.com/literacy/ - phil Andy Carvin andycarvin at yahoo com www.andycarvin.com www.pbs.org/learningnow ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ 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.
[DDN] Global Learn Day Ten - This weekend
Digital Divde List Serv subscribers are particularly invited to join us on our tenth voyage around the world...this weekend. We have a number of speakers that come from this group, including Keynoter Taran Ramparsad speaking from Trinidad and Tobago. http://www.ben300.com/TENPLAN/?p=62 and Lee Ann Baber, speaking from London. Global Learn Day Ten opens with two icons, Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist and Sir John Daniel. They don't give keynoters -- that talk for 45 minutes with each other with some hard questions that come from the panelists. After that we make our way to the Southern Pacific and on to Hawaii, the long way around. 24 non stop hours featuring those who are increasing access to education worldwide. Here are the key web pages to view Home Page for the event http://www.bfranklin.edu List of all Speakers and their thumnails http://ben300.com/GLDTEN/?p=34 How to Talk, Listen, Blog http://ben300.com/GLDTEN/?p=52 Telephone number to call into if you want to just listen quietly -- or ask questions as appropriate +1 603-413-8003 - USA callers should just dial in...long distance charges apply. Overseas? Try Skype for pennies per minute. (But the event will also be available on a stream. When -- The event opens at 00:01 GMT Sunday October 8 and closes 24 hours later. That's Saturday afternoon if you sleep in the Americas. Sunday for the rest of the world. I hope you will come along with us. Should be fun! Appreciate if you forward. And apologies for a wee bit of cross posting. John Hibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs ___ 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.
[DDN] Wireless Networking for Development
From Marco Zennaro, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics is organizing a Workshop on ICTP-ITU-URSI SCHOOL ON WIRELESS NETWORKING FOR SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, to be held in Trieste, Italy, from the 5th to the 23rd February 2007. This School is the follow-up of the previous schools on the use of radio for digital communications held yearly since 1998 and series of Colleges on Radiopropagation carried out earlier at ICTP with the collaboration of URSI and ITU/BDT. The School is addressed to a limited number of candidates coming from academic and research institutions of Developing Countries and having an adequate working knowledge of IP networking. It will include tutorial lectures and laboratory work, where wireless solutions for computer networking will be experienced through hands-on sessions. The Workshop is open to scientific computer consultants and network managers working in scientific institutions and isolated scientific environments with a minimal infrastructure. The main purpose of the Centre is to help research workers from developing countries within a framework of international cooperation. Scientists and students from all countries which are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the Workshop. As it will be conducted in English, participants should have an adequate working knowledge of this language. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare). However, limited funds are available for some participants who are nationals of, and working in, a developing country, who will be selected by the Organizers, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only for those who attend the entire duration of the Workshop. There is no registration fee. For both technical reasons and limited resources the total attendance to this Workshop is limited. More info are available at: http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?smr=0ida=a06181 ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site
Andy Carvin wrote: Hmm... Surprised at how limited it is, both in terms of usefulness and in its definition of literacy -andy --- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) http://www.google.com/literacy/ I think this spartan simplicity is brilliant, Andy: this is just the Google part of a project in which the other participants are the Literacy Campaign of the Frankfurt Book Fair http://www.litcam.org/litcam/en/index.php and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning http://www.unesco.org/education/uie/index_uie.shtml, which will probably produce more elaborate materials. But as a demonstration of how search tools work, the Google page is great. Think of a Luddite teacher, put off by the fact that the internet is made of 99% of rubbish. Showing such teachers that you can safely and easily get to the immense quantity of great resources comprised in the remaining 1% without having to wade through the rubbish is vital. Each of the 6 subpages of results prompt users to use the tool themselves. I was such a Luddite teacher not that long ago. I walked out of a conference where erudite and prolix zealots enthused about the magnificent future of the connected world, muttering The expanse of bullsh*t in a waste of sham, when the organizer threatened to repeat the videoconference with Edgar Morin from Paris, after the Swisscom folks had fixed the bad connexion during the coffee break. It took me 2 years after that frustrating experience before I tried the internet . My initiation: I clicked on Netscape in the school lab, stared at it blankly for a while, turned to a student and asked And now how can I find pages on a given subject? He typed altavista.it in the URL window,hit return and showed me there were other search engines in the bookmarks. That's what the Google part of the Literacy project does, and that's what is needed if you want to get tech-reluctant educators to use tech tools for furthering literacy. Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch PS I blogged in Italian about the google literacy site: http://adisi.livejournal.com/62384.html - thanks, Phil. ___ 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.
[DDN] Most Reliable Search Tool Could Be Your Librarian
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:19:29 -0400 From: David P. Dillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Net Gold Listserv List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: INFORMATION LITERACY : LIBRARY: LIBRARIANS : RESEARCH: RESOURCE EVALUATION: Most Reliable Search Tool Could Be Your Librarian INFORMATION LITERACY : LIBRARY: LIBRARIANS : RESEARCH: RESOURCE EVALUATION: Most Reliable Search Tool Could Be Your Librarian Most Reliable Search Tool Could Be Your Librarian By Elinor Mills Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: September 29, 2006, 4:00 AM PDT http://news.com.com/Most+reliable+search+tool+could+be+your+ librarian/2100-1032_3-6120778.html?tag=nefd.lede A shorter URL for the above link: http://snipurl.com/xlqf Your child wants to learn more about Martin Luther King Jr. You might consider consulting a librarian instead of Google, AOL or Microsoft search engines. Using the keywords Martin Luther King, the first result on Google and AOL--whose search is powered by Google--and the second result on Microsoft Windows Live search is a Web site created by a white supremacists group that purports to provide a true historical examination of the civil rights leader. * snip That's where librarians come in. While the Web is good for offering quick results from a broad range of sources, which may or may not be trustworthy, librarians can help people get access to more authoritative information and go deeper with their research. There are limitations with the search engines, said Marilyn Parr, public service and collections access officer at the Library of Congress. You can type in 'Thomas Jefferson' in any search engine and you will get thousands of hits. How do you then sort through those to find the ones that are verifiable information, authentic and not someone's personal opinion? Most people don't bother to look at results past the first page or spend much time evaluating the source of the material, experts say. There's a problem with information illiteracy among people. People find information online and don't question whether it's valid or not, said Chris Sherman, executive editor of industry blog site SearchEngineWatch.com. I think that's where librarians are extremely important. They are trained to evaluate the quality of the information. -- The complete article may be read at the URL above. This is why I as a librarian in classes that I teach about the use of electronic resources note that search engines are a weak and dangerous main resource for building quality bibliographies and note that mixed in with quality sources are websites of hate groups, sites selling commercial products or sites with an axe to grind. However, even I was not prepared to find a hate group's site cleverly disguised in its search engine annotated link as the first hit in the search results for a search of Martin Luther King. Google has a high reputation and this is frankly, shocking, right up there with American information technology firms helping China find and punish dissidents when they use the communication tools of these companies to share dissent. This is the relatively innocent looking entry in Google at the top of the heap for a search of Martin Luther King. Web Results 1 - 30 of about 31,300,000 for Martin Luther King * Martin Luther King Jr. - A True Historical Examination The truth about Martin Luther King: Includes historical trivia, articles and pictures. A valuable resource for teachers and students alike. www.martinlutherking.org/ - 6k - Cached - Similar pages One does need to wonder how this particular site out of over 31 million sites comes to be the top hit in Google. It certainly looks enticing and interesting. The only clue that is a kind of strong warning label is the phrase the truth about. Use of this kind of language is a strong warning that this is propaganda rather than objective and educational content contained under this hood. This is the link to the site http://www.martinlutherking.org/ Looking at the site one soon sees racist, malicious, and inflamatory content which to the eyes of young untrained eyes may be factual information. This site is precisely why throwing young researchers out on the internet can lead to serious and dangerous problems. They may not be able to see and understand what is misleading to completely false in websites like this. It comes from a .org, so it must be more objective. After all an organization that is based on Martin Luther King's name should be a quality place to find information about this person. Right on the front page of this hate groups website however is a statement about a party in King's Willard Hotel room that featured amongst other things illict sex attributed to an FBI report for which
Re: [DDN] [WSIS CS-Plenary] Highlights of GAID Steering Committee
Forwarded FYI only. From: plenary-admin-wsis-cs.org] On Behalf Of Parminder Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:56 PM To: ‘plenary wsis-cs.org’ Cc: 'bureau wsis'; governance-bounces-lists.cpsr.org Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Highlights of GAID Steering Committee Dear All Going through the discussions summary, the following comes as a surprise, and alarms me a lot…. At the Chairman’s proposal, it was agreed that members of the Strategy Council and Steering Committee be requested to support the Global Alliance through annual contributions (in cash or in kind), according to an indicative scale, taking into account the financial constraints of some members, in particular civil society organizations and developing countries. (quote ends) This will then, sooner or later, make the reverse logic operational as well – the steering committee and strategic committee membership will begin to include an implicit or explicit criterion of ‘capacity to contribute funds’. And this logic is dangerous in public policy spaces…. There already is a growing tendency of public policy meetings and conferences sponsored heavily by interested parties which of course casts a shadow on the deliberations and outcomes, but to have a UN anchored public policy body have its governance positions linked to the criterion of ‘capacity to pay’ is going quite a few steps beyond. I find any such move very dangerous to the very fiber and structure of our public life. GAID needs to decide for itself whether it is a global public policy body, with important policy influence on ICTD policies globally, nationally and locally, or it is a non-profit which wants to challenge energies, goodwill and funds into ICTD activity. And if it is both, what is it primarily. Because in the latter mandate, it is fine to look around for funds in this manner, even offering governance positions for the purpose (though still, discretion is required to see that social responsibility funds are not used for narrow interests – commercial or otherwise, which in the long run harms the interests of the targeted group more than they benefit them immediately). And if its mandate is the former – that is mainly policy advice and influence related – GAID needs to be extra careful that its governance as well as other structures are free from narrow commercial (or other) interests. And the positions in its governance structure etc go strictly by the criterions like capacity to contribute and representative-ness of different stakeholders – more of those who could with some legitimacy be seen as representing the poor and marginalized sections (as the UN Secretary General advised during the deliberation, and I quote form the enclosed document – “the Alliance must keep the interest of the poor and marginalized foremost in mind”. Going by the statement of GAID’s mission given out by the press statement from the UN Secretary General’s office that announced the launch of GAID, it seems to be oriented more as a platform for ICTD policy dialogue and advocacy. To quote the press statement – “The mission of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development will be to facilitate and promote such integration by providing a platform for an open, inclusive, multi-stakeholder cross-sectoral policy dialogue on the role of information and communication technology in development”. Of course funds are needed, and contributions are welcome. But these can not be tied to positions in the governance structures. We all need to take a clear position on this issue. There is a great danger in requesting the members of governance bodies to contribute – this links the membership to contributions, even if implicitly, and in the long term. The call for contributions should instead be open – to all those who agree with the stated purpose and polices of GAID to contribute. I will request CS members in these deliberations to report in more detail on such issues, and their implications, though I understand the insider-outsider dilemma of participation in such high level bodies. And we also need to have a general CS view on these issues, and keep up a broader engagement with post-WSIS bodies through these elists, and other associations. This is specifically so because this group was asked to, and it did, contribute to the process of selection of the governance structures. regards Parminder Parminder Jeet Singh IT for Change, Bangalore Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities Tel: (+91-80) 2665 4134, 2653 6890 Fax: (+91-80) 4146 1055 HYPERLINK http://www.itforchange.net/www.ITforChange.net _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Renate Bloem Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:51 AM To: CS Plenary Cc: bureau wsis; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Highlights of GAID Steering Committee Dear all, Please see attached a brief
[DDN] New Report: Building Constituencies for Spectrum Policy Change
*New Report:* *Building Constituencies for Spectrum Policy Change: * *Wireless Broadband and Public Needs* *Free download available now:* _http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/building_constituencies_for_spectrum_policy_change_first_report_ New wireless networks and technologies could improve the lives of all communities--rural and urban, low-income, young and old, Native, immigrant, disabled people and all those who are continually excluded or underserved by current systems. But there is no guarantee it will happen that way: * What kinds of policies are needed to make sure that all people can benefit from these new developments? * How can we best activate the public and persuade policy-makers to put the right policies in place? Building Constituencies for Spectrum Policy Change: Wireless Broadband and Public Needs brings together the insights of 14 advocates and organizers who work on behalf of communities around the US. The New America Foundation convened this Stakeholder Strategy Committee to engage these issues to help guide their own work and the work of other public-interest colleagues and allies. This first report is a capture of ongoing conversations, not a blueprint for action or a consensus platform. Rather, it is intended as a resource to public advocates, community organizers, nonprofit groups and funders who want to help ensure that the future of media and telecommunications is designed to meet the needs of all people and communities. To download Building Constituencies for Spectrum Policy Change: First Report – Wireless Broadband and Public Needs, please visit the following link. You will be asked to fill out a short form about your interest in this report so we can learn more about how tools like this are useful. *DOWNLOAD NOW:* _http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/building_constituencies_for_spectrum_policy_change_first_report_ ~ For more information about *New America Foundation Wireless Future Program http://www.newamerica.net/wireless_future*, the Stakeholder Strategy Committee or this report, contact Naveen Lakshmipathy at NAF ([EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]). ___ 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.
[DDN] guide to social media
http://www.spannerworks.com/fileadmin/uploads/eBooks/What_is_Social_Medi a.pdf What is social media?: an e-book from Spannerworks Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS Community Outreach Liaison National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 800-338-7657 in CO,KS,MO,NE,UT,WY 402-280-4156 outside the region [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site) http://library.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell (Digital Divide Network Profile) ___ 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.
[DDN] RESEARCH: EVALUATION OF SOURCES : INTERNET: EVALUATION OF WEBSITES AND CONTENT: Evaluating Information on the Web
RESEARCH: EVALUATION OF SOURCES: Evaluating Information on the Web Given this post on Net-Gold this morning, it may be useful to members of this discussion group to view this instructional guide for evaluating websites and web pages for content quality and reliability. The earlier Net-Gold post. INFORMATION LITERACY : LIBRARY: LIBRARIANS : RESEARCH: RESOURCE EVALUATION: Most Reliable Search Tool Could Be Your Librarian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/15214 Well, this is your librarian (well at least one of them) speaking: Evaluating Information on the Web Jenifer Lee Baldwin Head, Reference and Instructional Services; Subject Specialist in Film Reference and Instructional Services Samuel L. Paley Library http://library.temple.edu/services/ library_instruction/evaluating/intro.html A shorter URL for the above link: http://snipurl.com/y57w The World Wide Web is a great tool for exploring all kinds of information. While it is useful to have access to so much diverse and uncensored material, it is important to remember that internet browsers and search engines do NOT discern between valid, useful information and the inaccurate, useless stuff. Even the most diligent web surfers can sometimes forget that much of what is on the web is not only irrelevant or misleading, but often false. This page from which the quotation is taken has a link to an excellent tutorial that teaches the techniques for determining the validity of content on the web. Evaluating Information on the Web Table of Contents http://library.temple.edu/services/ library_instruction/evaluating/contents.html A shorter URL for the above link: http://snipurl.com/y586 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Introduction 2 Authority 1 Authority Question Authority Answer Accuracy 1 Accuracy Question Accuracy Answer Objectivity 1 Objectivity Question Objectivity Answer Currency 1 Currency Question Currency Answer Coverage 1 Coverage Question Coverage Answer Exercise Conclusion Library Homepage == Content Sample Objectivity Question An internet search for information on Martin Luther King could find these three sites. Consider the Objectivity of each site. Martin Luther King Center Martin Luther King.org Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Which of these sites may be the most objective? Is there deception at work here? == Hint Read this post. INFORMATION LITERACY : LIBRARY: LIBRARIANS : RESEARCH: RESOURCE EVALUATION: Most Reliable Search Tool Could Be Your Librarian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/15214 Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Net-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html General Internet Print Resources http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp http://www.learningis4everyone.org/ http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne Educator-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/ ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site
Andy Carvin wrote: Hmm... Surprised at how limited it is, both in terms of usefulness and in its definition of literacy -andy --- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) http://www.google.com/literacy/ As far as I can tell, the only new piece of information on this literacy website is the map of literacy organizations, along with addresses. This is somewhat useful, for example to find literacy orgs in your city, though this data itself is not searchable (oddly enough for Google!) The rest of the website appears to be just pass-throughs to Google's extant search services. Book Search = books.google.com Scholar search = scholar.google.com Video search = video.google.com Blog search = search.blogspot.com Groups search = groups.google.com I'm not sure where all the hoopla came from, given that anyone who knows HTML could have written these pages in a few hours...:) As far as I can tell, there is no additional filtering of search results Thus, for people who are already familiar with google books and scholar search, this literacy website seems little more than a packaged way to get at them, along with some proposed search terms. This is not to say that google is not doing good things in this area. Books and Scholar search for example are incredibly useful. However, this new literacy website does not seem to add much value on top of these existing services, besides collecting them all on one page (though this page is a superset: http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/) I certainly hope v2.0 has a bit more meat to it! -- Karl Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] - All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. ___ 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.
[DDN] Samoa solar powered information center
VIA Technologies and Motech Industries have teamed up to help build a solar powered information center in Samoa. The local community has received the center with a lot of enthusiasm, as has the prime minister of Samoa, who wants to replicate the project across the island. An article describing the creation of the center as well as blogs from VIA's representative on the project can be found at the VIA pc-1 website. http://www.viapc-1.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=444Itemid=2limit=1limitstart=0 'Coinciding with the PaciNet 2006 conference, VIA's International Relations Manager, Scott Phipps arrived in Apia (the capital of Samoa) where he met up with the Samoan Ministry of ICT Director, Gisa Fuatai Purcell. Together they had been collaborating to develop the first solar powered ICT Community Center in the South Pacific, since their first meeting at the Global Alliance for ICT and Development Conference in Malaysia in late June. 2 months later they successfully put those plans into action.' Best regards, Josh Holmes http://www.viapc-1.com ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site
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.
