Notches on the Ladder to Internet Literacy

In mid-February, the Sunday New York Times wrote about Stephanie Rosalia, a New York City public school librarian who teaches students how to use the Internet effectively. Because that is our mission, it was no surprise that half our staff e-mailed the article to me.

What did surprise me, however, was that the article was the most e-mailed on the New York Times Web site, that it received 75 comments and that it was the subject of 100 blog posts. We have long preached that students will never realize the full benefit of the Internet by using search engines alone. Until we saw the tremendous response garnered by the New York Times article, we didn’t know that much of the world agrees with us.

And this week, we received the best evidence yet that we are succeeding in our mission to show teachers and students how to find credible and comprehensive resources online. First, an article authored by PC World appeared on MSN and named findingDulcinea one of the readers’ choices for “Sites That Will Matter in 2009." The article said findingDulcinea offers “clear value as a teaching aid for kids.”

A day later, we received an even more stellar review from Joyce Valenza, Ph.D., a leading technology writer, in the prestigious School Library Journal. The review described findingDulcinea as "[r]eminiscent of About.com ….with its human guides and structured, contextualized presentation of results, FindingDulcinea offers us more and far more attractively." Even better, Dr. Valenza then asked and answered the question "What does FindingDulcinea do right? It organizes. It evaluates. It creates context. It is conscious of design. It gets media."

I couldn’t have written it better myself. For schools that are not fortunate enough to have a Stephanie Rosalia on staff, findingDulcinea is the next best thing.

Mark Moran
Founder and CEO

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