New Guidelines for Fair Use! The Code of Best Practices
in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education from the Center for Social Media at American University
Literary Glossary - Not only is there a definition for many literary terms, but once you click on the term, you get a link to at least one very detailed lesson plan associated with that term.
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."
Create a 30- to 60-second video that shows how voting gives power to your voice, and why it is important for you and other citizens to exercise that power. This was the site shared by Judge Rendell. The deadline is Oct. 23, 2008.
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.
Create "stacks "of your favorite web sites, videos, and images and then share them with others via email or in your blog/web site. You can add your own URLs too - no need to just use their search feature. Create your own stack today.