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• Book lover Nicole Vaidisova promotes reading

  Published: July 28, 2007, 4:34 pm

  Tags: Nicole Vaidisova, Reading, Vaidisova, Spreading, Publishers, Service, Literacy, Mitch, Morrie

  is now spreading the literacy word by being photographed reading Mitch Albom's bestselling Tuesdays with Morrie. Other celebrities that have also appeared in the campaign include Whoopi Goldberg, Alicia Keys, Queen Latifa, Robin Williams, NY Yankee Johnny Damon, The Miami Heat, etc. To see what their posters look like click here.

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• UK and Irish schools need to educate, not ban, now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:42 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Ltsfutures, Rss, Safety, Security, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, Bebo, Facebook, Literacy, Safety

  wanting to plan digital literacy into their work. So, if you are a teacher in a UK or Irish school, the latter a country where Bebo has 95% penetration in the teen market, don't hang about for Bebo. You need to start thinking about how you are going to educate your students in the art of self-publishing without signing away their content,

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• Harry, Hermione and Ron give a clue on digital literacy

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:40 am

  Tags: Audience, Blc07, Ltsfutures, Safety, Security, World Of Ewan, Digital Literacy, Harry Potter, Internet Safety, Order Of The Phoenix, Blc07, Hermione, Potter, Quote, Quotes, Ron Weasley, Security

  its long lost cousin digital literacy? I'm not spoiling the film to point out that Lord Voldemort, while being the baddie, is not the only baddie in this story. The teacher, Dolores Umbridge, is 'old school', uses techniques which are outdated and discipline which is archaic, "never liked children anyway" and works for the Ministry.

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• Harry, Hermione and Ron give a clue on digital literacy

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:39 am

  Tags: Audience, Blc07, Ltsfutures, Safety, Security, World Of Ewan, Digital Literacy, Harry Potter, Internet Safety, Order Of The Phoenix, Blc07, Hermione, Potter, Quote, Quotes, Ron Weasley, Security

  its long lost cousin digital literacy? I'm not spoiling the film to point out that Lord Voldemort, while being the baddie, is not the only baddie in this story. The teacher, Dolores Umbridge, is 'old school', uses techniques which are outdated and discipline which is archaic, "never liked children anyway" and works for the Ministry.

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• UK and Irish schools need to educate, not ban, now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:47 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Ltsfutures, Rss, Safety, Security, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, Bebo, Facebook, Literacy, Safety

  wanting to plan digital literacy into their work. So, if you are a teacher in a UK or Irish school, the latter a country where Bebo has 95% penetration in the teen market, don't hang about for Bebo. You need to start thinking about how you are going to educate your students in the art of self-publishing without signing away their content,

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• Parenting trends: bigger families, hands-on fathers

  Published: August 14, 2007, 2:02 pm

  Tags: Australia, Babies, Baby Genius, Babygenius, Boomers, Children, Dad, Fathers, Herald Sun, Heraldsun, Involved Fathers, Involvedfathers, Large Families, Largefamilies, Literacy, Mom, Mothers, Parenting, Parenting Ideas, Parenting Trends, Parentingideas, Parentingtrends, Personal

  Infant / First year, Speech, LiteracyI guess parenting has trends just like fashion and music. The Australian newspaper, the Herald Sun, asked a group of parenting and family experts to predict the future trends of parenting and they came up with some rather interesting insights. For example, Mother and Baby magazine editor-in-chief Fiona Baker

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• Literacy: Why Are This Fall's Big Books So Small?

  Published: August 21, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Books, Literacy, Publishing

  So you know that Fall is supposed to be when publishers release their blockbusters, right? Back to school studiousness plus Christmas shopping equals prime time for book-reading. So what are the...

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• Literacy: One In Four Americans Didn't Read A Single Book Last Year

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Books, Jesus Christ, Literacy, Publishing

  According to an AP poll, basically no American reads any books anymore. Well, the "typical person" claimed to have read four books, with half of respondents claiming to have read fewer and half...

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• Web Apps for Students

  Published: August 26, 2007, 1:35 am

  Tags: Beyond Admissions, Education Specializations, Literacy, Education, Learning

  Software Tools being used by students today did not exist a few years back.However now a lot of help is available. Josh Catone has listed these at Readwriteweb.com under the following groupings 1.Office Replacements There are a large number of impressive web apps that can handle your academic needs. 2.Notetaking The proliferation of portable

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• BET wants you to read a %$#ing book

  Published: August 26, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Bet, Blacks, Books, Culture, Hot Ghetto Mess, Literacy, Read Book, Reading, We Got To Do Better

  Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Video, AnimationSatire is a tricky sword to wield, and BET's current efforts to call attention to some of the less-favorable aspects of current black culture are proof of that. First, there was We Got to Do Better (formerly Hot Ghetto Mess), a series whose pilot episode was so schizophrenic I actually

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• Web Apps for Students

  Published: August 26, 2007, 1:35 am

  Tags: Beyond Admissions, Education Specializations, Literacy, Education, Learning

  Software Tools being used by students today did not exist a few years back.However now a lot of help is available. Josh Catone has listed these at Readwriteweb.com under the following groupings 1.Office Replacements There are a large number of impressive web apps that can handle your academic needs. 2.Notetaking The proliferation of portable

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• We can't teach the new literacies soon enough

  Published: September 26, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Socialisation, Bebo, Digital Literacy, Facebook, Myspace, Tennis

  Cross-posted at ConnectedLive. This morning's news reports tell us enough is enough. If a pair of Britain's young sporting hopefuls can lose all their funding in one fell swoop after doing what millions of other kids do on a daily basis, then what are the consequences for our kids when they reach the world of 'professionalism' too? The

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• Move Over Phonics: Music Training and Reading

  Published: September 28, 2007, 5:51 pm

  Tags: Language, Music, Neuroscience, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Brain, Children, Education, Family, Health, Literacy, Music, Pdd Nos, Phonics, Reading

  verbal communication and literacy skills, a new study from Northwestern University suggests—I like the sound of that. My son Charlie is learning phonics as one part of his learning-to-read curriculum: It is slow going, especially as Charlie, who has apraxia, does not always identify some of the alphabet letters correctly (B and D are

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• Colorado Teaching Teens Money Management with Financial Football

  Published: October 10, 2007, 6:41 pm

  Tags: Computer, Games, Colorado, Financial Footbal, Financial Literacy, Money Management, Nfl, Visa

  statewide Teen Financial Literacy Program at West High School in Denver on Tuesday. Allard partnered with Visa Incorporated is seeking to educate youth statewide on money management using a video game called Financial Football. This free game also has the support of the National Football League. Former Broncos linebacker Karl Mecklenburg made

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• Free Innovative Online Tool to Assist Literacy Programs

  Published: October 15, 2007, 4:11 pm

  Tags: Technology, Literacy, Online Tools, Verizon

  An innovative online tool, designed to help local literacy organizations evaluate their programs and make changes to produce better results and help increase national literacy rates, was unveiled Monday (Oct. 15) at the National Literacy Summit at Georgetown University.

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