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Great use of Twitter as a tool to teach writing / literacy skills

'Here we aim to give you solid tips on advice to improve your writing from a wide range of different Irish authors.

Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, scripts or poetry we hope that you will find articles here that guide and inspire you and take you a step closer to publication. If you have queries on a topic we haven't covered here, visit our forum where you can ask the experts or discuss your thoughts with other writers in your field.'

Little Bird Tales is a nice site intended for younger students to use to create digital stories. Little Bird Tales walks users through each step of creating a multimedia story. Users can upload images, draw images, or record from their webcams. Stories can be written with text or narrated by students using microphones connected to their computers.

Students hear a generic tune, to which they add poetry/lyrics, and then sing their poem/song karaoke-style.

A very comprehensive guide to all American dialects, with lots of maps, data, and examples! Fantastic!

America's Day Of Terror from the BBC has a lot of excellent information. In fact, it might have too much for English Language Learners, so you might want to point students to particular sections of the site.

Complete an audio exercise on 9/11 at the Web Language Lab.

At Sound Guide you can listen to President Bush's address after the attack and complete the cloze (fill-in-the-gap) exercise.

Game Classroom is the next generation of homework help!
This site has a variety of math and language arts games for students K-6. This would be a great resource to add to any teacher web page as well as one to share with parents who are seeking ways to support their child at home.

Shared by one of my grad students. Lots of topics covered for math and Language Arts.

Interactive flash app for spelling AWESOME!!!

Great for K-3 and ESL learners, thanks

Book review podcasts from high school students.

"Using podcasting, I have taken low-level readers and have excited them about reading and sharing what they read with the world. The Fireside Book Chat Podcast contains student reviews of self-selected books. A take on the old-fashioned book report, the podcast provides students with an authentic way to learn because they do it not just for themselves nor just for the teacher, but for the world. "

"This Online Program will help you create an acrostic poem for your name. The program will help you decide on descriptive words for your acrostic poem. It will then turn your acrostic poem into a beautiful looking poem."

I have used iKnow That: Alien Word Mine to practice the not contraction, but was looking for another opportunity for students to practice. I searched for some fun activities and came up blank. I decided to make an offline game that students could play as a class called "I have, who has?". In this card game, each student chooses a game card. Each game card starts with the separate words (for example: can not) and has a contraction (for example: aren't). Students stand in a circle holding there game card. Choose one student to begin by reading their card: "I have can not, who has aren't?" The student holding the card with "are not" responds: "I have are not, who has don't?". Play continues until all matches have been made

just found this

"ElectraGuide is a tool that wants to help high school students:

1. find a topic (see example topic questions?)
2. create a good thesis statement (see an example?)
3. and generate an outline (see an example?)"

PBS hosted games regarding language arts skills. Great for your Interactive Whiteboard.

Animated online stories. Requires a FREE registration to view stories.