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All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data.

FotoFlexer is the world's most advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software.

How do you select books to read? Do you use the jacket cover? Word of mouth? Reading lists? Which comes first, reading a book or watching a movie made from it?

I use songs and music clips to motivate my students and enhance my lessons. The iPod allows me to easily carry all my songs into the classroom.

Select the correct meaning of each italicized word using the suggested type of context clues. Note the clues within the sentences

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

This website synthesizes ICT and regular curriculum outcomes into engaging computer-based learning activities teachers can immediately use in the classroom.

Correcting their mistakes is editing, and if that is what you enjoy you should have gotten into book publishing. We are teachers and our job is to teach students how to use the English language.

teacher using wiki to create content - all students have pages

Great description of how to use Google Docs to collect and mark papers

using a slide application to take notes during the research process.

Blog post about using reading comprehension strategies to reinforce strategy and teach good blogging skills

MYBC allows students 10-14 years to share their love of reading. We invite you to tell us what you are reading, post book reviews, participate in discussions and celebrations.

Teachit is a tried and trusted education resource used by thousands of teachers nationwide.

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.

Gone are the days of children sneaking comics past diligent parents and teachers watching out for sub-par literature. The comics of today not only have plenty to offer, they are gaining well-deserved recognition and awards. Take advantage of the natural affinity children have for comics and use them as a powerful teaching tool in your classroom.

8 options that you need to type in. Spin to select. Could be used with learning new words. Spin and put the word in a sentence.

(1) A wiki debate visualization tool that lets you: present the strongest case on any debate that matters to you (2) A web-based, creative commons project to increase the transparency and rigor of public debate everywhere-by making the collective insight and intelligence of the global community freely available to all and filtering out the noise. (3) A global graph of all the debates that enables us to visualise and deepen our understanding of the ways in which different debates are semantically interrelated, and ways in which these interrelated debates shape, and are shaped by, each other.