Monthly Archive for November, 2012

Cyberfamily activities

7 November 2012 – Editor

The blog Cyber Families: Connect, Create, Care (http://cyberfamilies.blogspot.com) provides biweekly thematic online activities for the whole family to do together. Each theme includes projects that family members connect, create, care, and explore careers. Themes include virtual museums, forensics, mass media, animals, nutrition, poetry, and more. Dr. Lesley Farmer developed this […]

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Intergenerational literacy programs

6 November 2012 – Editor

Here are three examples of successful intergenerational literacy programs (submitted by Sabine Uehlein, Stiftung Lesen) 1.       USA:  Intergenerational penpals write about books in the USA Connecting young library visitors with elderly people at the Clare Oaks Retirement Community in Bartlett. With this idea in mind started the youth librarian Kimberley […]

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Call for Proposals: Intergenerational Literacies

5 November 2012 – literacy-reading

WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS 79th IFLA General Conference and Council: Future libraries: Infinite Possibilities Singapore, August 17-23, 2013. CALL FOR PROPOSALS Programme: Intergenerational Literacies: texto↔techno. The IFLA Literacy and Reading and Information Literacy Sections are seeking proposals for  a joint programme to be held at the IFLA Conference in Singapore […]

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Russian discussion group

2 November 2012 – Editor

Уважаемые коллеги! Продолжает работать обновленный сайт Дискуссионного клуба Минобрнауки России  www.mononline.ru. Приглашаем Вас посетить диалоговую площадку; выразить свое мнение по уже обсуждаемым вопросам или же завести отдельную тему для всероссийской дискуссии. Будем рады видеть Вас! Просим Вас познакомить с данной информацией Ваших коллег.

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Categories: Literacy | Closed