FYI:
Current Literacy Information & Resources
Fall 2007

FYI highlights information and resources that may be of interest to practitioners, researchers, policy makers and administrators in the literacy field in British Columbia. FYI is compiled by library staff based on the reports and journals we receive at the library, email notices, Web sites and other current awareness services. It is sent out quarterly with Literacy BC’s E-Bulletin and posted on the Literacy BC Web site under “Publications” at www.literacy.bc.ca Thank you for forwarding to us information you would like to see in the next FYI.

| Rememberance Day | World AIDS Day | Amnesty International "Write for Rights" |

| Adult Learning | Assessment | Early Literacy | Family Literacy |

| Funding for Community Development | Health Literacy | International Literacy |

| Literacy Practice | Numeracy | Social Justice | Software |

Time-Sensitive Literacy Program Ideas

November 5th to 11th

• Borrow Literacy Resources for Remembrance Day
  Incorporate some of these resources into your literacy programs for November. Email library@literacy.bc.ca to borrow or for more information.
  • Forgotten Warriors [VHS Video], 1996. "A compelling view of war as experienced by Aboriginal veterans and a powerful telling of Canada's racist past." [Close captioned] [Reviewed in the Literacy Materials Bulletin]. Also of interest is this Web site: Native Soldiers, Foreign Battlefields http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/native/intro [Web site], Veterans Affairs Canada.
  • Peace is... : deGroot, Jennifer [Book], 2001. These words and images of peace were gathered in India, Chad, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Lesotho, and Uganda between January and July 2000.
  • Far Away but Close to Home: Local People Remember War and Peace, Wood, John [8 Workbooks, manual and overheads], 2001. Also available online at: http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/faraway/stories/s1/cover.htm.
  • Veterans Affairs Canada has educational resources on their Web site at http://198.103.134.2/remembers/sub.cfm?source=feature/week2007&CFID=2 0079929&CFTOKEN=41281368.