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Just Google It-Bringing Students’ Information Literacy To The Composition Classroom, Susanna Coleman Oct 2008

Just Google It-Bringing Students’ Information Literacy To The Composition Classroom, Susanna Coleman

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Information Literacy In Library Spaces And Interfaces: Exploring The Libraries Of Seattle, Megan J. Kelly Oct 2008

Information Literacy In Library Spaces And Interfaces: Exploring The Libraries Of Seattle, Megan J. Kelly

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Promoting Literacy Initiatives Abroad Through Rotary Partnerships, Carol Walker Jordan Apr 2008

Promoting Literacy Initiatives Abroad Through Rotary Partnerships, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

In the Spring of 2005, on a trip to Atlanta, an article in the US Airways Magazine, August 2005, p. 75, caught my attention, "Universal Literacy: And How Room to Read Contributes To That Goal," by Michael Ybarra. Michael described how John Wood in 1998 quit his job as a marketing director at Microsoft to go trekking in Nepal. Invited by a local teacher to visit a classroom of a village school at Bahundanda, Wood described the conditions to be appalling--80 kids in one grade with 20 books described as backpacker castoffs-for example. Danielle Steel and Lonely Planet's guide to …


Prácticas De Lectoescritura En Los Exvotos, Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón Jan 2008

Prácticas De Lectoescritura En Los Exvotos, Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón

Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón

Prácticas de Lectoescritura en los Exvotos Abstract Maria Eugenia de Luna University of Western Ontario mdelunav@uwo.ca En este trabajo estudio las prácticas de lectoescritura en los exvotos, su producción y usos, tomando en cuenta que las prácticas de lectoescritura nos ayudan a tener una mejor idea del concepto de cómo se unen en la práctica la escritura y la lectura con las estructuras sociales. Un exvoto es un documento lleno de información tanto visual como narrativa y gracias a estos se puede decir que se tienen un acervo histórico popular, donde a través de los siglos podemos ver ilustrados y …