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If you like to read articles online, this tool makes all of the surrounding clutter disappear. Great for students who are easily distracted.

"Throughout its history, the BBC has aimed to help audiences delve into the imagination of writers. This collection of interviews with some of the 20th Century's most read authors reveals something of those imaginations and the personalities which lie behind some of the greatest modern novels. "

"The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. Read, discuss, and share ideas about teaching writing today."

Incredible looking ebooks that include, audio and video as well as text and images. HS level kids could use this tool to create and publish. All books are embeddable as well. Make sure to read the fine print too.

This goes along with what Alan November shared with the group in the spring.

ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan as described by the site, "In this lesson students learn how to use comprehension strategies involving a sequence of planning, predicting, monitoring, and evaluating. Once students learn the strategies, they read a variety of hoax websites and evaluate the content. They then demonstrate their learning through the creation of outlines for hoax websites."

The site is meant as an additional source for students who can't quite grasp the concepts within The Odyssey. It is not intended to be used as a substitute to reading the book.

Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com

Interesting!

This is really helpful for the folks who stop by my desk wondering where I am!

Use this vbscript to instantly set an away message as your screensaver whenever you leave your computer. Make sure you read the readme file.

Thanks to Beth McGuire for forwarding this one via email. This program is sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Readers from grades 4 - 12 can participate in this program by writing a personal letter to an author, living or dead, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves. The deadline is December 6, 2008.

The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores and in cooperation with affiliate state centers for the book, invites readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature, a national reading-writing contest.

Good lord, Beth O'Marr demo'd this site and I had a language-gasm! Check this out!!

Drop in a relatively small text (800 words or less), and this little wonder creates graphic organizers, finds vocabulary, builds questions, does pronounciation, prefixes, suffixes.

Materials that combine audio, video and reading activities to offer a better perspective of the Hispanic world. All created in Spanish speaking countries, covering many topics. Our goal is to provide great videos that really show our country, and that can be interesting and understandable for a foreign student.

INTRODUCTION Using the news in the K-12 classroom is an excellent way to engage young people. Reading, writing and creating projects related to the news is part of most state's teaching standards. Students should be exposed to news via print (newspapers and magazines), and non-print (radio, Television, the Internet.) Both mainstream and non-mainstream sources should be included. To incorporate media literacy into your existing teaching, I recommend you download the core concepts of media literacy and the critical thinking questions handouts as a way of getting started.

controversy surrounding the novel Catcher in the Rye - background information to provide context for reading

QuizEgg is essential for parents, teachers, professors, instructors and other educators. The online quiz maker let's you quickly and easily make sophisticated quizzes that can be completed by your students online. Quizzes are automatically graded for you, so there is no need to spend hours correcting them yourself. All the quiz results are analyzed and aggregated for you in easy-to-read reports.

Animoto going education. Read about the classroom code and email them for a code for your class.

an educational web site that uses music, film, and sports as a way of motivating students in grades 6-12 to read and write. For example, students can listen to, read, and interpret song lyrics, and they can submit their own lyrics, song ideas, or song interpretations for prizes.

This is a site that provides standard-based lessons that use current music lyrics. The site was created by McDougal-Littell.

Replaces the old send-a-letter-to-your-future-self project, so no money is wasted on postage, paper, or envelopes.

Really simple: write an e-mail, and then have it sent to yourself at the specified date in the future. Use it for time capsule projects, or just for reminders. You can set it private or public, and you can even read the public ones.

A web site designed for K-12 educators who want to: -teach standards that include non-print media texts - learn more about media literacy - integrate it into classroom instruction -help students read the media -help students become more media aware

Picturing Modern America (PMA) contains interactive exercises designed to: * Deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920 * Build students' skills in analyzing primary sources, especially visual sources * Generate questions that students can pursue by searching in American Memory and other sources. Above all, we hope that you use PMA to encourage your students to actively read, question and discuss the photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century.