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Joyce Valenza

Joyce is the teacher-librarian at Springfield Township High School, a technology writer, and a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at UNT’s School of Library and Information Science.



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italki: language learning 2.0

May 6, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)



In the spirit of the open source movement and wonderful world of Web 2.0, comes italki a social networking portal for language learning. The site currently boasts more than 200,000 members and addresses the needs of learners of a wide variety of languages.

On italki, you can find a language partner; join groups; ask questions of the community in italki's Answers area; grab, share, and contribute knowledge in a variety of wikis on various languages and levels. In ...Read More

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Kids define READER while presenting to Ridley

May 4, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2)

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Sometimes it's the unexpected that blows you away at a conference.  One of the highlights of our state conf occurred during the presentation of the ...Read More

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Reading First Questioned

May 2, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

A report released on Thursday questioned the effectiveness of President Bush's 6-year-old, billion dollar early intervention initiative for low-income elementary schools.  Reading First is a cornerstone of No Child Left Behind.
Through Reading First, states and districts receive support to apply scientifically based reading research—and the proven instructional and assessment tools consistent with this research—to ensure that all children learn to read well by the end of third grade.
The large-scale study examined reading skills for nearly 40,...Read More

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Curly hair: a conference documentary

May 2, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (6)

At conferences you will find conversations directly related to the critical issues at hand. You will also find subtext. 

For those of us with curly hair, this subtext has become a sisterhood, an underground network. 

How do you look good no matter what you hair has planned for you?  Can you ever be in control? 

In a world where product rules,  . . . ...Read More

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Almost Live from Harrisburg--Video of Our Day at the Capitol

April 30, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)



   

Today we hosted our first legislative breakfast.  I share some of the highlights in the hope that these speakers might inspire others to speak up and help us further a grass-roots movement.  I am delighted that students acted as leaders in this event!

Deb Kachel, our legislative chair did an amazing job organizing the event.  I share some highlights in the hope that some of our eloquent speakers might inspire others. 

My job was to ...Read More



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