Pacific voices: Educational technologies for literacy learning

Multicultural Education and Technology Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-35

  Skouge, James ^a   Boisvert, Precille ^b   Rao, Kavita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Konawaena Elementary School   (United States)

^c Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)   (United States)

Author keywords

Literacy; Multimedia; Pacific Region; Reading; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938098381     PISSN: 1750497X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17504970710745184     Document Type: Article

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