Thanks for your post Susan,
I was particulary struck by your last statement, "Graeme would have not
done this in any conventional sense but the online shopping site has
changed his view of reading and certainly led to improvements in his
reading abilities in these contexts." Has the improvement in his reading in
the context on-line shopping has that translated in to improved scores on
standardized assessments and/or in his reading ability overall?

For others on the list, do you have any data or anecdotes to share about
students' reading improvement that may be attributed to their introduction
to high interest on-line content and on-line activities? How about in their
literacy practices (i.e. spending more time reading electronic or
traditional texts, reading a greater variety of text materials)?

How about for you personally, has the accessibility and proliferation of
electronic materials led you to read more, improve your own literacy habits?

Regards,
Mariann

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David, Bruce and others 
Happy New Year to everyone 
this is an Auistralian online banking resource. Obviously the banking
system will be different but it will serve as a useful model for someone in
the US to develop your own resource.
http://www.onlinebanking.org.au/
  
I was interested in what Bruce said about his Russian students and learing
English through online trading sites 
Certainly we have had a lot of success wirth that in one of the programmes
where I work. We had an ESB client who was only really motivated to read
because he did up old engines and he was told he could buy parts for them
online through NZ's biggest online shopping site Trademe. 
So we went through the process of teaching Graeme the layout of the website
- the various symbols and what they meant, how to use the search engine etc
as well as consumer law which has led to him now using the Internet to
order parts for some obscure pump he is restoring as well as write emails
complaining about goods etc. Graeme would have not done this in any
conventional sense but the online shopping site has changed his view of
reading and certainly led to improvements in his reading abilities in these
contexts. 
  
Susan Reid 
Manager, Consultancy Services 
Workbase New Zealand Centre for Workforce Literacy,
www.workbase.org.nz
www.nzliteracyportal.org.nz
  



Mariann Fedele
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New York, New York 10004
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