Literacy with ICT

BabbleStream has created a web-based group voice chat solution that can be embedded onto any website. Lively users can also embed rooms onto the site and access both Lively and launch a voice room session from the site.

How Robbie Dingo took Van gogh's painting and recreated it in Second Life.

Ever looked at your favorite painting and wished you could wander inside, to look at it from different perspectives? Spend a single day in one of mine, from early sunrise on a new day, to dusk when lights come on in cosy homes; through a peaceful night, till morning.

The Classroom of Popular Culture What video games can teach us about making students want to learn

GOOD VIDEO GAMES AND GOOD LEARNING James Paul Gee Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading University of Wisconsin-Madison

A video of Tim Ryland'suse of the computer game Myst in the classroom in his creative writing class. Watch for the ecellent teaching practices in the video.

Edutopia.org asked several innovators in the field about what practical steps teachers and administrators could take right away -- without making any major investments or waiting for policy shifts -- to improve technology integration in our classrooms. Here's what they suggest:

Over 200 project ideas to choose from

Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

19-minute award-winning short-film about teaching at University: (((