Literacy rocks
communication June 18th. 2008, 5:52amJust a quick post to talk about literacy.
It’s very simple: those who can’t read miss out on a lot of great opportunities and joys.
I haven’t done a lot of online research about literacy, but Jason Falls did show me the following website devoted to literacy: NCFL Literacy Now.
Let’s all take a moment and reflect on the fact that we are very, very fortunate to know how to read. The ability to read and write blogs is just the tiniest fraction of the benefits we all enjoy through literacy.
Does anyone else have any links to literacy websites?s Better yet, any examples of how they are trying to use social media to help (which might be very tricky, given the clientele)?
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Thanks for pointing to the NCFL blog, Mark. They’ve really embraced blogging and are getting better at it everyday. We’ll keep an eye on responses here as we’d like to start collecting relevant literacy blogs and websites for use as both blogroll/links and friends in the industry. Thanks for putting this out there!
June 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
@Jason - no problem. Had been chatting w/ Liz Strauss via Twitter about literacy being a barrier (in the context of growing the social media sphere) and was pleased to get your link. Hopefully we’ll find some more!
June 18th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
this is uber true! its really sad that many do not know how to read …