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The complete text of 1984 by George Orwell accessed to read and/or download from the web

"Newslo is the first hybrid News/Satire platform on the web. Readers come to us for a unique brand of entertainment and information that is enhanced by features like our fact-button, which allows readers to find what is fact and what is satire. Newslo's "No Need to Satirize" brings you completely factual stories that are so ridiculous, they don't need our trademark touch. Whenever you see #NNTS, you're reading COMPLETELY real news that only seems too absurd to be true."

Grammar Ninja is an educational web game where you as the Grammar Ninja must find parts of speech by throwing ninja stars at words. Correct answers allow you to continue, while wrong answers literally explode. Also available for Wii.

I used this game for a grad school assignment in which I had to review a technology tool. It was really fun!

A quick-start guide for teachers who want to try something new in the 2010-2011 school year.

Great site that walks through the process of reading a web site, with pop up notes to explain the reading and questioning process

Comprehensive list of Shakespeare-related weblinks. Named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top fifteen literary websites and one of the three hundred best web sites in the world.

My English Dept. says I gather way too many Shakespeare resources, but I just find them to be so prevalent on the web. This one is from one of my all time favorite websites.

Ted Nellen's CyberEnglish blog. Ted is a pioneer in use of Web technologies with students.

There are lots of web sites that although not specifically made for boys' literacy needs, offer great activities that seem to be particularly good for encouraging boys.

Yet another outlet for teachers to provide students who are struggling with writing.

50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (return)

Great list of books, poems, and audio books available for free on the web

Reflective Protocols for Literary Artifacts "# What do you see here? Describe the document/artifact in terms of content, without being interpretive. # What do you think you know about this document based on reading it and any previous knowledge? # What do you think the document reveals about its era/ What kinds of information can be learned from the document? (There might be more than one kind of information). # What don't you know about the document? What questions would you ask about it? # If you were going to do further research on this document on the World Wide Web or in the library, how would you go about it? # What knowledge or skills are you bringing to this course from other learning experiences you've had that help you make sense of these documents?"

The Shakespeare Standard is a news, feature, and blog hub for Shakespeare-related news on the web. They publish news items from around the world on a regular basis while featuring reports, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts from our editorial staff and community contributors.

Spell with flickr is a neat app that allows you to create banners or other text with flickr images. Perfect for embedding in wikis or using on blogs or other Web sites.

Invention tools, collaboration tool, etc.

Use Apture to mark words and then find out more about those words.

Creating Live Web TV for the Classroom for Global Audiences Live Streaming Video Sites Ustream.tv * Weblogg-ed TV * PLP Live Mogulus Mobile Phone Streaming Sites Qik Ustream.tv Tools Camtwist Chatzy CoveritLive Uses for Streaming Video in Schools EduconTV--for streaming conference sessions. Mr. Chamberlain's Class Interviews (Howard Rheingold) Logistics of Using Ustream in the Classroom School Play ("Something to Believe In" from SLA) Techniques/Equipment Storyboarding Embedding DV Camera Microphone

Qwiki allows users to learn more about a variety of topics through multimedia and storytelling. Users can also contribute content to make Qwiki even better.

Interesting but it seems like they are just lifting content from Wikipedia. I'll have to check it again. Thanks, it is nice looking.

A great collection of FREE and FUN vocab learning games and word lists organized by grade level and units