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“Great quotes about Learning and Change” Flickr group
Slideshow at Flicker

The Literacy Tribune

The Literacy Tribune is a newsletter for learners.

It is from the US.
There is a new Literacy Tribune every two months.

It has information about health, finance, education, and technology.

It also has a learner’s story that will encourage and inform learners on their journey to improving their literacy skills.

Here is the Call for Writers --> http://unitedliteracy.org/callforwriters.html
Click on the link to find out if you would like to write for the Literacy Tribune.

learning zen

LearningZen is a free, web-based e-learning service. Users can freely study, educate and collaborate. This video demonstrates the basics of LearningZen.

The course editor looks similar to the one in Moodle. I am going to try and make a course soon and see if the "exam" can be a demonstration as required by LBS -- if only could figure out what such a demonstration might be :P

I'll let you know how my experiment goes. Let us all know if you try any course making at LearningZen or anywhere else.

Resource to Review: Vocabgrabber

I just got this message from Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus.

I wanted to tell you about a great new vocabulary tool that we just launched this week. It's called VocabGrabber, and it intelligently extracts key vocabulary from any text you're interested in, allowing you to sort, filter, and save the most relevant vocab words. We think it's a tremendous boon to teachers and students alike. Take a look at it here: http://www.vocabgrabber.com

It looks pretty interesting. I had some fun trying it out.

It is not free*. I have not used this with students so cannot properly assess this resource. You can test it with students for a 14 day trial period. After that you have to pay $2.95 US a month or $19.95 US a year for individuals. There is a desktop edition that you can load on a computer and use without an internet connection that costs $39.95 US. There are site licenses available for schools.

If you try it out, let us know what you think and whether you would consider purchasing it for literacy students to use.

*Update: See Ben Zimmer's comment below. I am wrong. "VocabGrabber is being offered as a free resource from the Visual Thesaurus. Many additional benefits come with a subscription to the Visual Thesaurus, but VocabGrabber can be used without a subscription."

learning links website

Learning Links - Connecting Great Websites and Multimedia Activities to Learning

"Just point and click on Learning Links for terrific learning resources at your fingertips! Quickly and easily find interactive, printable activities on interesting topics without having to search through numerous sites: Multimedia resources, videos, puzzles, information, quizzes, interactive materials, references, lesson plans and games organized for easy use."