Friday, July 13, 2007

From a Education Reference Question I answered this morning:


Reading Assessments for 2nd Graders:

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - Reading Assessment Databasehttp://www.sedl.org/reading/rad/states.html

Chicago Public Schools Office of Accountability: Kindergarten-Primary AssessmentTools for Reading Comprehensionhttp://www.intranet.cps.k12.il.us/assessments/Kg-PrimaryTools/reading.pdf

Indiana Reading Diagnostic Assessment: Second Gradehttp://www.cia.indiana.edu/assessments_IRA_2.htm

Informal/Formal Reading Assessment Database from Missouri Dept. of Elementary &Secondary Education:http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/commarts/readassess.pdf


Did you know:
Google: 10% of sites are dangerous
A new Google report researching 4.5 million Web sites found that 1 in 10 web pages could successfully "drive by download" a Trojan horse virus onto a visitor's computer. The primary mechanisms by which the malware is transferred are: Web Server security, user contributed content, advertising, and third-party widgets.
Source: Neils Provos, Google, Inc. "The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware"

Re: Techy Toys
50% of all American adultss are only occasional users of modern information gadgetry. 8% of Americans are "deep" users of participatory and mobile applications. 15% of the adult population are off the Web/cell phone network altogether.
Source: John Horrigan, "A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, may 7, 2007

LibSite
LibSite.org is a new recommendation service for library-related Web sites. The goal is to showcase and promote what libraries and librarians are doing online. This is an interactive site thats user-generated and includes a blog and a wiki.
Source: http://www.libsite.org April 10, 2007

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