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What to do when kid's parents don't speak English at home: load up an i-pod with English music, stories and lessons, and send it home.

If you want to bookmark only one site for teaching English, this would be a good choice. The sidebar on the left takes you to an incredible number of resources in drama, grammar, ESL, literature, Shakespeare, children's literature, and more. The resourc

Great resource for secondary students. Summary, notes, guides, and analysis of themes and characters for English Literature homework. The aim of this website is to make learning more relevant and fun for students in the digital age. Graduate students have compiled some excellent units.

Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs and novels while you relax, commute or exercise. Proofread, learn a new language, multi-task, and use YAKiToMe! for entertainment. YAKiToMe! speaks multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, German, ...) with both male and female voices using the world's best text to speech (TTS) synthesis technologies.

Great videos provide 60-second recap of literature classics.

former poet laureate Billy Collins improves on a very bad poem with hilarious results. would make a great intro to the study of metaphor at the secondary level.

former poet laureate Billy Collins improved on a very bad poem with hilarious results

Great post shows the difference between old-school and wonderfully creative Pro-D on technology. Participants used tech in the course of real problem solving. Posts about ChatterPix written by Ms. Hayes

This site was a "favourite" smartboard site listed on another one. Check it out.

A collection of subject-specific smartboard lessons.

Thanks for this post, Jim. This looks like a great assortment of instant video tutorials. I watched the fossil lesson and found it quite entertaining. It was set up as a quest where you had to learn about fossils in the hall of knowledge before earning the right to visit different geological regions.

This is a subscription site, but it has a free trial. BrainPOP features very engaging short animated films that teach common curriculum content. They also have BrainPOP Jr., specializing in K-3 content. The school and district pricing is posted on thei

Online thesaurus that displays word associations in a colorful web. The thesaurus gives you an option to change the display, viewing all or just the synonyms, antonyms, fuzznyms, adverbs, adjectives, verbs, nouns. In that respect, it's a lot less visually confusing than Visuwords.