May 18, 2008
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Into the Book Reading Comprehension Session added to NECC
We are pleased to announce that our colleagues from the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board (WECB), producers of the award-winning Into the Book reading comprehension series, have been invited to conduct a workshop at the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). This year, NECC will be held June 29–July 2 in San Antonio. It is the major annual conference sponsored by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
The BYOL—Bring Your Own Laptop—workshop, “Online Tools for Reading Comprehension,” is scheduled for Tuesday, July 1, from 11 a.m. to noon. Both WECB presenters are co-directors of the Into the Book project: Peggy Garties, a multimedia developer who has spent the last ten years developing instructional multimedia materials for K–12 schools; and Kristin Leglar, an instructional programs developer who has 16 years of experience as an elementary school teacher and three years experience as an assistant principal. They are frequent presenters at statewide conferences and workshops.
The Into the Book Web site will be featured as one of the free online tools for teaching reading comprehension strategies like inferring and synthesizing, plus finding interactive activities for elementary students and resources for teachers. For more information, go to the NECC Web site.