Posts Tagged as ‘literacy’

16 November 2008

Empathy & Books

Found at Durham Literacy – Worth Viewing

28 June 2008

Life is strange lately…

Well, here I am again after a bit of an unscheduled break.
Don’t really know WHY I have taken a break from here…
Focused on DOING the job, a lot lately. In fact I think I’ve been – and continue to be – a bit obsessive about work.
I have worked out, that in some ways I prefer [...]

13 March 2008

Thursday March 13

Surprised and pleased, to see tonight that the most recent readers of my blog are: 1 in Kuwait, 1 in or near Nannup Western Australia, 1 in Providence Rhode Island (USA) and 1 in Pennfield New Brunswick (Canada).
My Sudanese lady is happier today – her 3rd day in our programme. Yesterday, she came in to say she couldn’t stay, [...]

22 February 2008

Online resources from Australia

Just want to link here to some online resources which are usable in adult literacy and numeracy activities. I particularly like the checklist of activities which you ‘can do confidently’, ‘need to revise’, or have never learnt: there is one page for literacy and two pages for numeracy. I have used these and found them useful. They [...]

2 February 2008

ClustrMap is great.

Still fascinated by THE MAP.
3 dots in Canada.
20 MORE dots in North America, which include new ones inside and outside the USA, for which I haven’t identified the places, yet. 1 of those dots is more than 1 person – but might only be 2, of course.
1 new one in Wales, I believe. And 2 I [...]

3 January 2008

Thursday

Had a short day today, due to not feeling great. So I just did 4 hours, and will go in again tomorrow to work a few more. I don’t usually work Fridays – which is, of course, very nice: Every weekend is a long one!
A colleague unexpectedly came in and helped me with some of [...]