First Book Literacy Initiative

First Book, a nonprofit organization with the mission to give children from low-incomes families the opportunity to read and own their first new books, has partnered with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Sirius Thinking, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop to examine new ways to deliver printed and digitally formatted books to low-income and minority children in the U.S.  Click here to read more about the First Book Literacy Initiative.

New Literacies Collaborative

The New Literacies Collaborative (NLC) is a multidisciplinary group of educators and researchers who promote research-based best practices that incorporate new liteacies into the classroom.  The primary goal of NLC is to connect research and practice at the intersection of literacy, technology, and media.  The collaborative is coordinated by the William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at in the College of Education at North Carolina State University.

Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

THE FIRST ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

Logging Into the Playground:  How Digital Media are Shaping Children's Learning

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop held its inaugural symposium in New York City on May 9, 2008.  Key leaders convened to examine how recent research and on interactive media can accelerate children's literacy learning.

Videos of the symposium are available for viewing on the Cooney Center's YouTube channel.

Google's Literacy Project Website

Google provides a resource for teachers and literacy organizations on its Literacy Project website.  The site is created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.

Mobile eBooks Released by Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg has introduced a mobile-ready eBook called PG Mobile.  The software transforms files from the Project Gutenberg website into a format that can be easily read on mobile devices with small screens.

Read more about it in a New York Times article.