Some encouragement :)

Great article about the future of education in the eyes of George Lucas. (Thanks for sharing Phil)

I think this might be an opportunity for professional development with both google and the common core standards which the English department recently adopted. (The HS English teachers were emailed about it)

very cool new feature in google docs for research papers

Good article about tech enriched student empowered classes with quite a bit of detail on how to organize it.

New York Times lesson plans. Some of them look pretty good.

This is an interesting blog post from an 8th grade English teacher about using Diigo to support creative writing on a blog. He has some basic guidelines and assessments too.