Spring 2010 Syllabi
RE 3900: Principles of Reading Instruction for the Classroom Teacher
RE 5532: Technologies to Assist the Instruction of Struggling Readers
RE 5710: Seminar in Reading and Language Arts Research
RE 6575: Literacy and Technology
Literacy, Disability, Technology Resources :
You will find my social bookmarks for literacy, disability, and technology resources continuously updated at http://www.diigo.com/user/koppenhaverd, my new blog in the making at http://reedabooke.wordpress.com/, my twitter experiment, http://twitter.com/koppenhaverd.
Announcements (last updated 7/22/09):
The Center for Literacy and Disability Studies can be found at the University of North Carolina.
As of Jan. 28, 2010, The Tar Heel Reader, an on-line resource for reading and writing beginning level digital books for older adolescents, has over 7,700 books in its library and over 885,000 book readings since it went online in May 2008.
Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Block Way (Karen Erickson & David Koppenhaver) has been published by Carson-Dellosa, 2007 (ISBN 978-1-60022-125-5).
Waves of Words: Augmented Communicators Read and Write (Erickson, Koppenhaver, & Yoder, eds.), an international collection of case studies, is available from Augmentative Communication, Inc., 1 Surf Way, #237, Monterey, CA 93940 (Tel. 831-649-3050, Fax 831/646-5428) for $US22 + $US3 shipping.
Upcoming in 2009-2010 (last updated 7/22/09):
March 11-12, 2010: Karen Erickson and I will be co-teaching a follow-up workshop for participants in the previous AAC/Literacy Academies for Oakland Schools (Waterford, MI). Contact Ina Kirstein for further info.
March 25: I will be speaking on literacy instruction for students with ASD at the 7th Annual Autism Disorders Conference in Abingdon, Virginia.
March 27: Karen Erickson and I will be speaking on literacy instruction for students with Down syndrome at the 26th Annual Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress Conference in Worcester, MA.
May 15: Karen Erickson and I will be presenting a workshop on action research for literacy educators and a closing session, "Thoughtful Technology Use
to Support Singular Success in Narrow, Old Literacy
(and Why it Matters to Individuals with Disabilities)" at the National Technology in Education Conference in Toronto.
May 17-21: Karen Erickson and I wll be co-teaching the 3rd Literacy in AAC Course in Toronto. Contact Bridges to Learning for more information.
June 13-15: Karen Erickson and I will be co-teaching a Level II Literacy in AAC course for past participants in the Level I course at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Contact Cathy Zenko for further info.
June 19-25: Karen Erickson and I will be co-teaching the 6th Summer Literacy Session at Camp Courage in Maple Lake, MN. Email Barb Wollak to register or for information about this summer's session.
July 4-10: Karen Erickson and I will be co-teaching the Second Literacy in AAC summer course in Rawson, Australia. Contact Jane Farrell for further info.
July 12-13 and 15-16: Karen Erickson and I will be co-teaching a pair of workshops on literacy in AAC at the University of Auckland and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Contact Sally Clendon for further info.
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Finn Jensen, of Denmark, is the talented artist who sketched me during a lecture. My son Will's comment, "That's when you were skinnier. Right, Dad?"
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