ASD English Department

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)

choose your own adventure style writing

combines a video game mentality with writing... 

this is pretty basic (elem focused) but the main idea transfers... 

"Tell us how you are going to explore content formats that already exist on Twitter - short story in tweets, a Twitter chat, live-tweeting - or, even better, how you'll create a new one," says the call for ideas. "How will you work with our real-time global platform, where anyone can contribute to your story at any moment? The proposal must fit into the time window of our five-day festival - but that means that a project could run for the length of the festival, or just for an hour."

free ebooks for kindle

Tch - Teaching Channel is a Common Core aligned resource that might be worth a look for E/LA curriculum work

the other side of the workshop model - interesting opinion piece 

tgit?

A tool that tests the "grade/age level" of a webpage. 

A list of online tools not requiring registration for students (teachers) to use.

you have to install a small browser plug in before using this, but looks like a cool way to engage kids in writing

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