What is Digitally Supported Literacy?

Literacy and numeracy is a big problem in New Zealand, with 1 in 5 having low functionaly literacy. One of our clients, Adult Learning Support, is involved in helping adults who struggle with their reading, writing, spelling and maths.

We are working with them to create electronic versions of short stories that have embedded support for struggling readers. These take the form of videos with the text of the story on screen, narration by Nelson's Matt Lawrey, and visual cues to help them find the line they should be reading and "hoops", like slurs in music to help them read words in chunkys which is a skill developed by good readers.

The Work is being funded by AKO Aotearoa and will be released with the creative commons licence so that others can build on the work we have done.

We have quite a few new Joomla and WordPress tutorials online now. They are available via our our client pages. To access them you will need a username and password. Please contact us if you haven't received one yet. Most of the tutorials on how to use the Joomla editor are now up, how to create a Joomla menu item, how to upload images in Joomla are now compelete. Using the WordPress editor and a tutorial about how and where to use keywords effectively in WordPress are also online.

Coming soon are tutorials for uploading images in WordPress.

If there are special ones that you would like to see up there let us know and we will see what we can do.

If you are not currently a client and would like to access the Joomla tutorials and the WordPress tutorials online please contact us and we may be able to come to an arrangement.