logonliteracy links
The following are links recommended by logonliteracy
Literacy Educators' Coalition
http://www.literacyeducators.com.au/
a group of 180+ literacy educators from all around Australia.
National Literacy Trust
TEXT READABILITY
These sites will determine the readability of web pages and word documents
http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php#readingresults
http://www.standards-schmandards.com/exhibits/rix/index.php
http://www.iaw.on.ca/%7Ergerryts/cgi-bin/ws.cgi?T=blank
WORD CLOUDS
Useful for showing which words need to be taught by generating a word cloud
OTHER WORDS TO GOOGLE
http://www.boolify.org/ - this is a great visual search engine which shrinks the number of hits before your eyes.
ACTIVITES
http://www.cherylsigmon.com/handouts.asp
PICTURES
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/
www.cooliris.com
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
SPELLING
INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD ACTIVITIES
http://www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart_Pages
FREE DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES
FREE DOWNLOADABLE GRAPHIC ORGANISERS
http://freeology.com/graphicorgs/
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Hoax Web Sites
California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge - http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Dihydrogen Monoxide-DHMO – http://www.dhmo.org/
The Pacific North West Tree Octopus - http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Australian Drop Bears - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/3695/db.htm