June 13th: African Storybook Summit June 26

You are cordially invited to an open session of the African Storybook Summit, to take place in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, UBC, on Thursday, June 26, 2014.  The event, co-sponsored by the Wall Institute, will take place from 9:00am to 10:30am in the DLC (Ponderosa F, Room 103). UBC President Stephen Toope will open the summit and Dean Blye Frank will welcome participants. The project director, Tessa Welch, will give an update on the project, and Dr. Bonny Norton, the project’s research advisor, will serve as chair. The African Storybook Project is an innovative digital project that promotes early literacy in sub-Saharan Africa (http://www.africanstorybook.org/). Past and present Education graduate students are active in the project, which was highlighted in a recent UBC News article (http://news.ubc.ca/2014/03/19/148759/). Please RSVP Elizabeth Namazzi, the summit facilitator, at bukuschnamazzi7@hotmail.com, by Monday, June 16. Refreshments will be provided. All welcome!