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Chandler-Olcott, Kelly, and Paula Kluth. "Why Everyone Benefits From Including Students With Autism in Literacy Classrooms." Reading Teacher 62.7 (2009): 548-557. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The autism growth rate in normal classrooms has gone up about 5%, so teachers are now more straightforward with their literacy teachings. For autistic kids to develop literacy skills, they should be placed in classrooms with people of the same age. Studies have shown that students with autism who had been placed in a normal classroom at a young age have better communication and interaction skills with others. Having autistic children in normal classrooms has also pushed teachers into further analyzing their students, and pay more attention to assignments.

Sawmiller, Alison. "Classroom Blogging: What is the Role in Science Learning?." Clearing House 83.2 (2010): 44-48. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. This article takes a look into how classroom blogging is important in the Science community. It addresses the problems in class that may cause students not to have a "voice" and responds with how blogging can give those with social pressures, a way to ask their questions with no pressure at all. It talks about how classroom blogging is a way to expand the communication beyond the classroom wall and really connect with the students.

"Teaching Autism Students in Inclusive Classrooms." Child-Autism-Parent-Cafe. Oct.-Nov. 2010. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. - This site give strategies for teaching Autistic students in inclusive classrooms. It gives a couple strategies that have proven beneficial. For example, students should take frequent breaks for bathroom, etc. Also, visual schedules for class have been proven to be key. In addition, it touches on the idea of color-coding for visual learners.

Luehmann, April Lynn, and Jeremiah Frink. "How Can Blogging Help Teachers Realize the Goals of Reform-based Science Instruction? A Study of Nine Classroom Blogs." Journal of Science Education & Technology 18.3 (2009): 275-290. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. This article discusses the concept of using classroom blogs in schools in order to bridge the gap that was created from large class sizes and small class times. It was a research effort focusing on nine highschool and middle school science classrooms that really emphasizes the making of a classroom blog- ie. what's important and what's not. It really takes an in depth look at the effectiveness of using the blogs to help bridge the gap between teaching and students.

Paquette, Kelli, and Sue Rieg. "Using Music to Support the Literacy Development of Young English Language Learners." Early Childhood Education Journal 36.3 (2008): 227-232. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Music is a way to let children experience learning in a different way. The article talked about how by learning and singing songs they are learning literacy and exploring ideas that are not brought up in the common classroom, such as creativity in the art.\n"Whether children listen to the ''music'' of the rain, popular chil- dren's songs, or make their own musical compositions, important skills, such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking are developed. In an early childhood classroom, a musically, literacy-rich environment will generate interest, encourage creativity, and set the stage for a positive learning environment.

Stahmer, Aubyn C., Jessica Suhrheinrich, Sarah Reed, Cynthia Bolduc, and Laura Schreibman. "Pivotal Response Teaching in the Classroom Setting." EBSCOhost. Web. 18 Nov. 2010.\n\n- This site is about a technique for teaching Autistic children. The technique is called Pivotal Response Teaching (or PRT) and it goes into the method in depth. The article also offers suggestions for activities that would possibly interest Autistic children. It touches on all three learning types, as well. As a refresher, these three learning types are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.\n\nTHIS SOURCE IS SCHOLARLY.

Conte, C. Networking the Classroom (1995): 921-44. CQ Researcher Online. Web. This article deals with ideas of how to make classrooms more technologically advanced. It discusses the changes that have been made to techonology in the past few years, and why it is a good idea to stay technologically savy in the classroom. You can see students' benefits and their opinions to being able to use techonology in their work environment.

Walsh, Maureen. "Worlds have collided and modes have merged: classroom evidence of changed literacy practices." Literacy, Volume 42, issue 2 (July 2008), p. 101-108. OhioLINK. Web. 20 November 2010 Debates continue in public and in educational policy forums about the 'basics' of literacy while many have not recognised that these basics may never be the same again. Rapid changes in digital communication provide facilities for reading and writing to be combined with various and often quite complex aspects of music, photography and film. At the same time, educational policy and national testing requirements are still principally focused on the reading and writing of print-based texts. This paper examines evidence from classroom research to analyse the nature of multimodal literacy, the literacy that is needed in contemporary times for reading, viewing, responding to and producing multimodal and digital texts. Examples of students' engagement in multimodal literacy are presented to demonstrate how classroom literacy practices can incorporate the practices of talking, listening, reading and writing together with processing the modes of written text, image, sound and movement in print and digital texts.

Frye, Elizabeth M., Woodrow Trathen, and David A. Koppenhaver. "Internet Workshop and Blog Publishing: Meeting Student (and Teacher) Learning Needs to Achieve Best Practice in the Twenty-First-Century Social Studies Classroom." Social Studies 101.2 (2010): 46-53. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. This article discusses successful ways to go about publishing blogs and using the Internet in a classroom setting. It also discusses all the other options there are when working with blogs and what types of technological things are able to be added to them, such as podcasts, video screencasts, and files in general.

Burns, Shari M., and Kevin Lohenry. "CELLULAR PHONE USE IN CLASS:IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING A PILOT STUDY." College Student Journal 44.3 (2010): 805-810. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010.

Inan, Fethi A, and Deborah L. Lowther. "Factors Affecting Techonology Integration in K-12 Classrooms: A Path Model." Education and Technology Research & Development 58.2 (2010): 137-54. Academic Search Complete. Web. This article discusses the posibilites of making classrooms in primary grades more technologically advanced. It goes into how this would affect students in positive and negative ways. Would introducing students to techonology at a younger age benefit them more in the future? This is the question that people ask themselves to determine the most beneficial style of learning, and how to improve the learning techniques of children.

Garmire, Elsa, and Greg Pearson. Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy. Washington D.C.: National Academy, 2006. Print. This book is about different methods people are using to make the classroom more technologically advanced. Some people agree with the fact that the classroom setting should be more technologically advanced in order to keep up with the technological advances being made. However, there are some people that disagree with this and are against the idea of advancements of techonology being made in the classroom. It shows people's opinions on what is working and what is not.

Cardinal, Bradley, Marc Spaziani. "Effects of Classroom and Virtual "Lifetime Fitness for Health" Instruction on College Students' Exercise Behavior." Physical Educator 64.4 (2007): 205-13. Health Source. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a lifetime fitness class on college students free time activates. They compared the result of students in a classroom based class with students taking the class online and students not taking the class.

Simmons, Gary and Christine Evely. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." Screen Education 38 (2005): 76-83. Ebscohost. Web. 17 Nov. 2010.\n\nThis is a lesson plan for a primary school teacher for teaching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in the classroom. The lesson suggests that you and the class watch the movie and read the book then compare the two. It also has worksheets for naming and describing characters. It also provides questions such as how did Harry change in this movie, lessons learned, etc.

Hill, Liam, et al. "Exercising attention within the classroom." Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 52.10 (2010): 929-934. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. This articles attempts to determine whether or not having a daily exercise will increase a students knowledge during school hours. It involves younger students being tested to find out if there is a direct link to the two. Exercising has a way of making people have more energy but for others less. This articles tells that exactly.

Deasy-Spinetta, Pat. "School issues and the child with cancer." Cancer 71 (2006): n. pag. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. This article discusses how hospitals are trying to put programs together to help those children that are long term patience with the learning process. Many children are posing disabilities that need to be confronted before they are put back into a regular classroom. The article goes on to talk about that teachers need to empower parents and hospital staffs to come up with innovative ways to teacher children the curriculum that they should be learning. Children with learning disabilities are popping up more frequently and we need to take action as a society to address those issues at an early age.

Carnahan, Christi R., Kara Hume, Laura Clarke, and Christy Borders. "Using Structured Work Systems to Promote Independence and Engagement..." EBSCOhost. Web. 18 Nov. 2010.\n\n- This site goes very in-depth into how Autistic children learn and should be taught. If you want specifics, I would look into this article. It talks about a broad range of subjects, from attention levels to the importance of classroom engagement. It shows experiments that people have run in determining learning and teaching methods that are effective. In addition, the article has a lot of pictures, so it's somewhat more interesting.\n\nTHIS SOURCE IS SCHOLARLY.

Journell, Wayne. "The Influence of High-Stakes Testing on High School Teachers' Willingness to Incorporate Current Political Events into the Curriculum." High School Journal 93.3 (2010): 111-25. EBSCOhost. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.\n\n\nThis is an article that researched the curriculum at 3 different high schools. Its goal was to discover how teachers were incorporating the presidential election coverage into their classes, or if they did so at all. Some teachers failed to include any current events into the classroom because it would not be tested on at the end of the year graduation tests. They focused on issues and subjects the students needed in order to pass and graduate.

A film available on OhioLINK. \n\nTV and radio commercials, Web sites and banner ads, magazine ads, pop songs, photos, and even news articles and textbooks: all of them are sending messages to influence the reader/viewer/listener. How do they grab the attention? What are they selling-a product or service? a lifestyle? an ideology?-and why? Would a different media consumer interpret the message differently? This program raises more questions than it answers, which is the whole point: to prompt students to question, question, question the messages they are bombarded with daily. Savvy media consumers aren't born; they're made, and this program is an excellent tool for shaping the classroom dialogue. (35 minutes)