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Charlie Bryne's Bookshop in Gallway Ireland is an independent book store. You will find a book to take home.
Literacy is knowledge.
My granddaughter one year ago. Oh? you say selective color is passe? Exception to the rule ;-). (Could be biased.)
Wall mural on the Literacy Council in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Six vertical exposure panoramic created in Lightroom CC.
With helios.
As a dietitian and photographer, I love the book Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison. Lovely vegetable imagery and recipes.
Have a lovely weekend my friends and so happy you dropped by!
Extreme northern and extreme southern ends of Buragoot Beach are given up to use by on-leash dogs. Birds get the middle, and that's most of the beach. It's not a bad thing.
Nearby there are red-kneed dotterels just being dotterels.
Along the beach looks pretty flat. But it has its own topography: sand banks, channels, rips. It's not a place to take for granted. There's a big flock of Great Cormorants on one bank, a goodly number of what I suppose are Little Terns, a wheeling flock of Hooded Plovers and no dogs; excellent.
There will be an idiot with a pack of out of control dogs at the far end of the beach. Clearly, literacy and compliance are not universal. I once used the death stare to effect a challenge from a jury selection on a case of someone who clearly committed the heinous crime on the charge sheet. Wheeled out in defence of our feathered friends, it worked a treat. If it hadn't, there was no Plan B!
Is this sign enough? Probably not. Neither birds nor dogs are big on literacy.
4.5" square, acrylic on panel, framed. Available September 5th, 2008, at Three Graces Gallery's Teeny Tiny Art Show III.
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One of my personal favourites. A charming RPPC image of a young woman reading to a group of girls. Their teacher perhaps? Photographer's imprint says Melfort so this is most likely a Saskatchewan photo. Has "Made in Canada" and an AZO stamp box on the reverse.
I was kind of saddened when I framed the shot. Many people are fortunate enough to have a house and a place to read books and news. All this man had was some coins, a newspaper and the railway platform.
I could hear something going on downtown Moncton this morning and I was over a kilometer away so I had to walk there and see what was going on. It was the Legs For Literacy marathon.
Just some idle charting on the concepts of information literacy, media literacy, critical thinking, etc. This is simply one (librarian-centric) possible model of these concepts. The idea is all the other literacies (media literacy, 21st cent literacy, ICT, translit, etc.) involve interacting with information in one form or another, so "information literacy" acts as the umbrella under which all the others sit.
Surma or Suri (as they call themselves) are sedentary pastoral people living in south west of Ethiopia, on the western bank of the Omo river. These breeders tribal groups have a cattle centred culture. They breed their cattle, mostly cows, on their traditional lands, located in the Omo Valley. The economy of the Suri is based on breeding and agriculture. The grow cabbage, beans, yams, tobacco and coffee. Cows are tremendously important in Suri culture. They do not see cattle simply as a material asset but as a life ßsustaining and meaningful companion. Suri even sing songs for them and make fires to warm them. These cows are not bred for their meat and are usually not killed unless they are needed for ceremonial purposes. The Suri very rarely eat the meat of their cows, they actually breed them for their milk and their blood, which they both drink. Cows also have a social and symbolic meaning in Suri’s society. Suri men are judged on how much cattle they own. In desperate times, Suri men can risk their lives to steal cattle from other tribes.The average male in the Suri tribe owns from 30 to 40 cows. Every young male is named after their cattle, which they have to look after since the age of 8. Men are not allowed to marry until they own 60 cows. Cows are given to the bride’s family after the wedding ceremony.
This central role of the cow in their way of life accounts for the fierce independance they want to preserve and explains their warlike culture. Indeed, it’s quite common to see men and even women carrying weapons which are part of the daily life. Their remote homeland has always been a place of traditional rivalries with the neighbouring tribes such as the Bume (Nyangatom) or the Toposa. who regurlarly team up to raid the Suri’s cattle. These fights, and even sometimes battles, have become quite bloody since automatic firearms have become available from the parties in the Sudanese Civil War. This conflict has pushed neighboring tribes into Suri’s land and is a constant competition to keep and protect their territory and their cattle. A battle in ended up with the death of hundreds of Suri, including women and children.
The 40 to 1,000 inhabitants villages of the Suri, are led by a ritual chief known as the Komoru, dressed in colourful robes and wearing a crown of baboon fur. Village life is largely communal, sharing the produce of the cattle (milk and blood). Decisions of the village are taken by the men in an assembly. These debates are led by the Komoru, who are merely the most respected elder in a village even if they can be removed.
Although their traditional remoteness and autarky is threathened, only few Surma are familiar with Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, and their literacy level is very low.
© Eric Lafforgue
My photo take (straight out of camera) --
I could think of many captions for this picture. "The power of books" or "Literacy is paramount" or "The power of reading" or as they say in Marathi "Vachal tar vachal" or whatever you folks may think of.
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6 second exposure at f/4.5 and 22 mm in a complete dark room with just the light on the book as the source of light. I think that justifies the idea.
© Mandar Shidhore. Please do not use anywhere without my permission.
In and amongst all of the racial slurs and misogynistic insults, who would expect to find an actual quote, and spelled correctly at that? If only the miscreant author had thought to put "-George Santayana" beneath the quote, I would have been unbelievably impressed. But it was still a nice find in a sea of decay.
From our PD yesterday outlining some of the present day difficulties of teaching Digital Literacy to those already indoctrinated into other ways!
it's rare in my part of the world to meet totally illiterate people. this baby's mom was an immigrant, couldn't speak or understand english and couldn't read or write in her native language (she couldn't even tell me her phone number). it must be very difficult, always relying on others for information. i am grateful i am literate.
ProLiteracy – Improving lives and communities through adult literacy
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Rohingya refugee women attending English literacy classes in Malaysia. As part of the ICMC project to address and prevent sexual and gender-based violence, ICMC provides refugee women with skills that empower them to become self-sufficient.
© ICMC / Nathalie Perroud
Women take part in a literacy class run by CHETNA.
The materials they use to learn to read also give important information. In this class, they're reading materials about HIV/AIDS - a serious threat in the region.
With a literacy rate of 92%, Myanmar has a strong culture of reading. Books are sold on the street all over Yangon, with this example being at a book store run by the government publishing house Sarpay Beikman. Currently, there are efforts to keep the level of education funding needed to preserve and continue this tradition.
This peacock was created to try to pull together and visualize Doug Belshaw’s elements of digital literacies combined with some of the concepts discussed in Howard Rheingold’s etmooc webinar on Literacies of Attention. Digital Literacies Redux
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This is 'working wall'. We refer to it while we work.
The white rectangle is a white board which we change regularly and previously it said:
Our challenge this week is to write some more words to describe winter using all of our five senses.
Once the children have completed the challenge during their 'independent activity time' they can move their name onto the star.
The stop signs contain clues and hints to the challenges and learning objectives.