Britain's Big Read Vote For The Big Read. Back in April the BBC asked readers to nominate their best-loved books. The Top 21 List is up, and now you can tell them what your favourite Big Read of all is. Vote for your favourite. [LISNews.com] Of course we can't vote if we're not British, in Britain, etc., but it's fun to see the list and watch what happens with the vote. The BBC site also has lots of other reading resources, such as book group info and quizzes. 9:21:55 PM     [comment []];[]

The Need To Teach Search Strategies "Teens struggle to find accurate, useful health information online" From the announcement, "In a study of how teen-agers search the Internet for answers to health questions, University of Michigan researchers found that misspelled words, ambiguous search terms and an imprecise approach to scanning a Web site often prevented students from finding the information they sought. The study, published today in the online Journal of Medical Internet Research, suggests the importance of teaching teens better search strategies as well as encouraging Web site designers to target teens." The full-text of the article from the journal is available online.[ResourceShelf] The implications of this study for those of us who teach these students are clear. Knowing how to search for information is a big part of "literacy" today, and we can't neglect it, or assume that students will pick it up, any more than they will pick up multiplication skills on their own. 5:25:32 AM     [comment []];[]