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Knowplace.ca
Knowplace is an online community of educators, employment counsellors,
coaches and
their colleagues. Knowplace offers courses through Continuing Education
at Capilano
College, provides consulting services and hosts dynamic learning environments.
An
online newsletter is distributed regularly. For more information visit
http://knowplace.ca.
NEW ACQUISITIONS
AT THE LITERACY BC RESOURCE CENTRE FALL
2004
The Literacy BC
resource centre catalogue is online at:
http://www2.literacy.bc.ca/catalogue/ .
Requests can be made via the catalogue, by
email to library@literacy.bc.ca , by telephone 1-800-663 -1293,
or by interlibrary loan
through your public library.
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Barriers
to Participation in Literacy Activities Facing People with Physical
Disabilities. Neil Squire Foundation. 2004
Explores the issues of access and participation in literacy programs
from the
perspectives of people with a physical disability. The report also
provides
information about the personal and systemic factors that both
facilitate and
prevent people with disabilities from participating in literacy
initiatives. Also
available is ‘Reading Between the Lines’ - a practical
guide for organizations and
individuals wishing to improve the accessibility of their literacy
programs to
people with physical disabilities.
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Boiling
over: writing from the heart of Vancouver. Sally Gellard, ed. 2003.
A cost-shared project between the National Literacy Secretariat
and the BC
Ministry of Advanced Education, this is a compilation of works-
principally
poetry and short essays- by members of the First United
Church writing group.
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Building
community literacy from the ground up. Leona Gadsby and Jennifer
Cliff-Marks. 2003.
This manual traces the process of developing family literacy programs
and the
Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy. As well as telling
their stories, the
document acts as a manual for others striving to build
cooperative movements by
providing personal narratives, activities, guidelines,
and resources.
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