Google:
WHO: Google
Frankfurt Book Fair Literacy Campaign (LitCam)
UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning
WHAT: The Literacy Project
WHERE: www.google.com/literacy
WHEN: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 – During the Frankfurt Book Fair
WHY: Each year at the beginning of October, thousands of publishers,
authors, and book lovers gather in Frankfurt, Germany for the
world's largest book fair.
The theme of this year's fair is literacy, and in the spirit of
literacy, Google has worked with the Frankfurt Book Fair
Literacy Campaign (LitCam) and the UNESCO Institute for
Lifelong Learning to create The Literacy Project – an
Internet resource designed to promote literacy and reading
around the world. Literacy organizations across the globe have
helped in offering content for the site.
As a problem that touches all countries and populations,
there's a pressing need to share ideas, successful projects,
information, and statistics about literacy – as well as find
new ways to collaborate. Google believes that the Internet can
be a powerful tool in connecting the organizations leading
this fight. The more people that have access to reading tools,
project ideas, and resources, the further we will go in
combating this problem.
From Bollywood-inspired e-learning tools and book clubs, to
classic children's books and scholarly articles about
phonological awareness – users can find books, videos,
articles, blogs, and groups about literacy, as well as share
all of their own ideas and projects.
Some of the resources available on the site include:
– Books: find and search within books about literacy,
reading promotion, and education.
– Academic Texts: search for literacy-related content in
peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles,
from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint
repositories, universities and other scholarly
organizations.
– Video: See what literacy organisations, schools, and
educators around the world are doing to promote literacy --
or share your own project with the world.
– Blogs: Share your knowledge and ideas about literacy with
the world by creating a "blog" – short articles and stories
that you write for others to read.
– Groups: Discover forums on literacy projects and ideas or
start your own debate.
– Maps: From Kenya to Bangladesh, Canada to Mexico. Find
literacy organisations around the world.
For more information, please see today's Google Blog post at
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/. |
Pretty interesting, the Literacy Project is avalable in English AND German. |
