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Literacy Sites Worth Your Time to Check Out. . .

I will share interesting and helpful literacy websites on this blog.

Microsoft Office on the Web

As part of a strategic companywide shift toward embracing web-based solutions, Microsoft today announced plans to deliver Office Web applications - lightweight versions of Office - through web browsers.

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iKnow!

It seems that so far, the e-learning industry as a whole focuses on applications for enterprises and educational institutions.

Free digital texts challenge costly textbooks

Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost--and, they say, the dumbing down--of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts.

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Mentor Teachers of Early Childhood Education Student Teachers

Welcome!  We are glad that you have committed to mentoring an Early Childhood Education student teacher from UCO this semester.  The experience that both you as a mentor and the candidate as a student teacher has is CENTRAL to us!  Because you are so important to the Early Childhood Education program, our faculty has created this blog for you.  We hope you find it full of all kinds of helpful tips, explanations concerning why we do what we do, and suggestions for making this both a successful experience for the student teacher, and a rew

Teaching with Edubuntu

Edubuntu is a customized version of Ubuntu aimed at children in educational environments. According to the distributions homepage, Edubuntu is "Linux for Young Human Beings."

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Literacy, TV, and The Internet

Researchers have noted that there appears to be an overlap between children's pre-reading television viewership and their skill base in reading.

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Hey, You! Pay Attention!

Late last month, as students returned from spring break, the University of Chicago Law School announced that Internet access would be blocked from classrooms.

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Facebook Cheating Controversy

Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson University.

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Teachers Strike Back...

Tech-savvy teenagers are increasingly paying a heavy price--including criminal arrest--for parodying their teachers on the Internet.

Tired of fat jokes and false accusations of teacher-lounge partying or worse, teachers and principals are fighting back against digital ridicule and slander by their students--often with civil lawsuits and long-term suspensions or permanent expulsions.

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