Inaugural Issue of Literacy Special Interest JOURNAL

Announcing the very first issue of Literacy Special Interest JOURNAL

Special Episode: Professor Garfield, a Rich Source of Powerful, FREE Instructional Resources - OR - How to “Garfieldize” Your Classroom!

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This episode features an interview with Madelyn Ferris, who, on behalf of the Professor Garfield Foundation, introduces us to the wonderful Professor Garfield online resource for teachers  and learners. Madelyn gave host, Mark Gura,  a great interview and a tour of Professor Garfield’s online world.

Links for Professor Garfield

Professor Garfield: http://www.professorgarfield.org/pgf_home.html

Teacher Resource Center: http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/home.html

Sparktop.org: http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/kids/sparktop.html

Extreme Comics (Pixton): http://professorgarfield.pixton.com/schools/auth/overview  

Comics Lab: http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/kids/comicslab.html

English for Your Future/Ingles Para Su Futuro: http://www.professorgarfield.org/yourfuture/

Orson’s Farm: http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_ /kids/ teachers orson.html

Reading Ring: http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/kids/reading.html

Please check back for more episodes soon, including Episode 6, which will feature an in-depth interview with popular young peoples’ author, Andrea Davis Pinkney. Ms. Pinkney is the author Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra , Bird in a Box, Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, and many other really good books kids will love.

Watch for the upcoming ISTE Literacy and Technology book (title not yet set). This book picks up where (the of now out of print) Making Literacy Magic Happen left off…to be released in the not too distant future…

Host, Mark Gura’s sites and blogs:
http://www.lighting-a-fire.com/  + http://markgura.blogspot.com/ + http://www.classroomrobotics.blogspot.com/

Theme music-  Sunny Day by Mastermind XS / Free Music Archive