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"ked with book trailers and language arts-related games, School library media Kids is designed to provide an interactive learning experience to get students motivated to learn on their own! Students can choose from exceptional literacy-related resources such as author and book review websites as well as superb educational tools including reference works and search engines."

Virtual field trips challenge and expose students to new types of technology. It is a great way to spark their interest and motivate their learning in a specific content area. Virtual field trips can offer students more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn't normally be able to go to otherwise - like inside a volcano or ocean floor! In addition, virtual field trips may even boost students' reading comprehension skills and will expose them to different cultures and environments. While virtual field trips offer a great learning opportunity, they can be hard to organize and time consuming. Take advantage of our free virtual field trips and engage your students even more!

"There are many lessons to be learned from Nursery Rhymes, many things to talk about. You can learn something about being a good citizen when you do. So sing-along and think about the answers to the questions that we ask. "

"MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn."

"Studyladder, online english literacy & mathematics" Studyladder is a highly effective, logically organised, Mathematics and Literacy program. It has been developed by experienced educators to inspire and motivate learning. It is suitable for Elementary and Junior High School students and is very easy to use - students simply login with a username and password to access all the learning materials.

Welcome to English Club online, helping you learn English or teach English. You'll find everything from lessons for learners to jobs for teachers, including fun pages like games, quizzes and chat - all free!

"Holy Bodacious Barcodes: Using QR Codes to Extend Learning and Promote a Love of Reading Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz "

Shakespeare is going digital. Notre Dame professor Elliott Visconsi has co-created a new app for the iPad called The Tempest that he says helps accelerate student learning by allowing them to develop deeper comprehension in less time than solitary reading. At the heart of the app is a social network that encourages students to communicate their interpretations and collaborate with others.

There are numerous sites that are now offering Tutorials and how-to guides for creating ebooks in iBook Author. As teachers are now comfortable with the idea of creating their own e-textbooks more and more people are looking for resources to learn how to build touch enabled books that take full advantage of the iPad capabilities. Inserting video and high resolution photographs is one thing but how about inserting 3D manipulatives and models that are touch sensitive. Here is a list of some of the resources online. If you know of other good ones please add them in the comments section and we will update the list.

"EdTechTeacher presents Teaching English with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 English and Language Arts teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for English and Language Arts lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networks, Google Docs, ebooks, online maps, virtual field trips, screencasts, online posters, and more. Explore innnovative ways of integrating these tools into the curriculum, watch instructional video tutorials, and discover how others are using technology in the classroom!"

Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. "

Learn new words, play games and explore language

"Bilingual Spanish - English Vocabulary, Quizzes, Audio lessons Russian - English Vocabulary, Quizzes More Links pages Links for Teachers - Lesson plans and activities for English teachers, ESL Teachers Boards, ESL jobs, chat rooms, ESL books, flashcards, ESL Worksheets and Lesson Plans, TEFL Article and other online resource for English teachers. " plus listening resources

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

Different ideas for using apple's free iBooks Author

"Using iPods To Increase Reading Comprehension"

"writing prompts"

Book trailers

not by kids really, but good nonetheless

"www.ManyThings.org Interesting Things for ESL Students"