Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the Library of Congress presentation, it will be posted July 19th-ish.) From Stephen's Lighthouse: http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/07/michael_wesch_l.html "Many of you have probably seen Kansas State University prof Michael Wesch's though...

This is a learning object created for students in an English course at Otis College of Art and Design.

A Short film by Alex Wayman. Prompt: Literacy.

For Professor Good's Press In America Class at SUNY New Paltz researched by Doug Carter, Christal West, Diana Fitzgerald and Jillian Staring and Edited by Tara Quealy

Four Instructional Technology graduate students at the University of Mary Washington collaborated to create this video defining and guiding students and teachers through information literacy including the premier of their innovative DISCOVER approach to teaching information literacy.

This is a movie that was made for my Education Class.

Identify what sources are good to use for your papers. Learn the difference between scholarly, academic, professional, popular, and substantive news publications and the benefits and uses for each. To effectively research for college-level papers, students must learn how to evaluate articles in journals and magazines. In this video, an art histor...

A short compendium from the "Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation" lectures at Stanford, Winter 2005, found at http://www.cooperationcommons.com/resources. Includes clips from Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, Peter Kollock on Social Dilemmas, Bernardo Huberman on prediction markets, Ross Mayfield and Zack Rosen on emergent democracy, Howard Rheingold and A...

The last in a three-part series relating highlights of an interview with Joe Perez, who has worked for 49 years to advance the cause of adult literacy in Hillsborough County, Florida. Joe currently serves as Public Service Program Coordinator for Continuing Education at Hillsborough Community College. His prior positions include Director of Adult E...

Explore how early childhood educators and parents can encourage science and math literacy through real world and classroom activities. Experts utilize current research to show how math and science learning can be integrated into early reading activities. [7/2008] [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 14224]

San Francisco Slam Champion Adriel Luis breaks down self-hatred in first-person perspective. More at www.ill-literacy.com.

Listen further as Rainey gives a detailed example of how she uses differentiated instruction in a unit on media literacy.

Calling at: England- to visit Alastair "technophobe" Campbell and Iain "very responsive" Liddell-Grainger, Holland- to visit the world's most computer literate people, and Canada- where geeks must be protected from the dangers of WiFi. Thanks to James (Noah's Daddy) for his picture.

November 14, 2007 lecture by for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). In order to identify some of the technological gaps that hinder the implementation of universal computer literacy, which Robert defines as society's ability to read and write computer programs, this talk looks back at the development of literacy and the a...

KCET report on innovative, computer-based Spanish literacy program developed by Centro Latino for Literacy. (www.centrolatinoliteracy.org and www.leamos.org)

Financial Literacy Tips from CPAs

PART 1—A conversation with author, Ann Vileisis about Kitchen Literacy, what we know about our food, and how we came to know it. For Ann, her book Kitchen Literacy came about because she was struck by how much she didn't know about the common foods she encountered in the supermarket. In the research for her book, she was surprised to learn how mu...

Contest entry for: http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?name=mpachallenge

Research on how perceptions of copyright law affect media literacy educators, by Temple University's Media Education Lab (http://www.mediaeducationlab.com) in collaboration with the Center for Social Media, American University. Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

This is the very first show that launched the UWSP on local cable stations in NYC Sept 2006. Since airing online in Feb. 2007, nearly 20,000 viewers have tuned in via the Internet! This premiere show addresses the basic fundamentals of financial literacy. What's your financial IQ?

Meet some of our tutors, our teachers, and our students. Learn why Adult Education & Literacy at Ozarks Technical Community College is so valuable of a service! Find out how we can help you, and how you can make a difference!

Video of Free Computer Literacy Camp conducted at NTM school Mysore on 1st Dec 07 and few old snaps of mys comp lit camp and gokak CLC. Do rate and show people what eBIZ is all about

Video blog by ScienCentral's Brad Kloza, after attending a conference on public scientific literacy in Shanghai. Also: don't miss the "Science Literacy Olympics" at sciencentral dot com!

A school report about the literacies present inside World of Warcraft.

In South Asia, and particularly in Uttar Pradesh, the Indian state in which WLC is focused, literacy rates are extremely low. In UP, according to census 2001 survey, the literacy rate for males was 68.8% and among adult women, the literacy rate was only 42.98%. In India the overall literacy rate is 64.8 % (Male: 75.3%; Female: 53.7%). Historicall...

John Hope Brant, founder of Project HOPE, answers The Davos Question, remiding that we are all entrepreuners and that the world's leading entrepreuners were once poor. Bryant ties issues of financial illiteracy not only to the poor, but to the middle classes as well, as evident in the subprime crisis.

This short video is a visual essay for Writing 142 class. The video focuses on why we need a critical digital literacy in the Google age.

Volunteer with the Minnesota Literacy Council! Enthusiastic individuals are needed to tutor immigrants, refugees and life-long Minnesotans in reading, writing and English. Help students achieve life's necessities like completing job applications, helping their children with homework or understanding medicine labels. Tutor one-to-one, teach a class,...

Boeing, Cathay Pacific Airways, Room to Read and Scholastic Inc. Deliver Hundreds of Thousands of Books to Children in the Developing World Boeing, Cathay Pacific Airways, Room to Read and Scholastic Inc. came together yesterday for the historic, inaugural flight of Literacy One, carrying hundreds of thousands of children's books donated by Schola...

A student uses an online program, typeonline.co.uk, to learn to type both quickly and accurately; this is their third typing lesson.