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"Take your books' covers from drab to fab by challenging students to make "Book Ads" using "Wordle"-a free, user-friendly, Web 2.0 tool that transforms simple text into eye-popping word clouds. Modify the directions and templates provided below to use with students."

Phrasr is an interactive web-based application that uses Flickr images to illustrate the phrases that users submit. She can choose every image and then publish the entire phrase, which is shown as a personal slide show.

"stories from the cloud Cloud computing. Web 2.0. Social networking. Stories are being told in new mediums. This blog examines YA stories in their original, print versions and how they can be re-told in new ways using collaborative online tools"

 Browse andComment Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation. Announcements3/14/11: We are launching a restoration project in the spring of 2011 to fix up the broken content on the site. Thanks to everyone for your patience as we continue to restore the missing works. Please see the help section if you have any questions.

"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!"

links to free web resources for all subjects

the largest human-edited rhymes collection on the web!

The BBC archive of collections as well as links to other archives on the web (right hand side bar)

Easily tell interactive stories

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.

"Book Drum is the perfect companion to the books we love, bringing them to life with immersive pictures, videos, maps and music."

comic master allows you to create your own short graphic novel

read and submit stories based on geographic location

This might be a fun thing to do with our kids.

ThumbScribes is a platform for creating collaborative content. Co+Create haiku, poems, short stories, flash fiction, novellas, exquisite corpse and songs, real time or asynchronously with your computer, tablet, cell phone or even IM.

In just 5 easy steps, you will create brochures for your business, your group or yourself.  MyBrochureMaker offers colorful, premium brochure templates for a wide range of business categories. But what makes it awesome is that anyone - no matter how creative or computer challenged - can create a quality brochure that gets your business noticed.  You can print it yourself on your desktop printer. Or, have us print it professionally and ship it directly to you.

audioowl online audio books by genre

visual thesaurus

project Gutenberg INDEX -- Free Books On-Line -