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Great resource for teachers and students...you'll find analysis of theme, characters and study guides. History study guides as well!

Very interesting site with lots of info - summerization, theme

Mike LoMonico shared this excerpt from "Old School" by Tobias Wolff which explains why English teachers are awesome.

Meredith Stewart pulls together some TED Talks (Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference) that might provoke good discussion in the English classroom.

English teacher Jim Burke's short podcast on a big issue: How big questions engage and motivate students who have grown up digitally

a considered, thoughtful approach to cell phone use in school from a teacher, especially if you are teaching in a no-cellphone school. Something's gotta give!

Teaches students to evaluate journalistic quality

Inspirational post about the tears and rewards that come with being a teacher.

Incredibly inspiring. Read this when you're wondering how you're going to make it through another year!

A short and useful list of iPhone apps for English teachers.

NAEP writing tests are moving toward digitalization. An Ed Week report. Question: what does this mean for how teachers will teach writing? 

This is a great book for any writing teacher. I bought my copy in 86 when it first came out. Here it is on Google books. Support Natalie Goldberg's work. Buy a copy!

may be useful for British Lit or World Lit teachers: my resource page on bestiaries for my mythology unit/World Lit.

One stop for teachers looking for tech tools. Click on Edutech.TV, and many of these tools have how-to videos. Nice.

We take it for granted as English language teachers that we need to develop our students' reading skills, but in most cases the nearest our students get to reading online is a printed version of a web page pre selected by their teacher. At best they may actually get to see a pre selected page on the screen of a computer, but is this enough to really develop their digital literacies?

"Storytelling is changing" Has today's English teacher? Bill Ferriter always has good info.

"A few weeks ago, I received an urgent e-mail: The National Council of Teachers of English is looking for volunteers for an ad hoc task force whose charge is to gather evidence about why literature should continue to be taught in the 21st century."

This wiki complements the upcoming book "Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning" by Wesley Fryer and Karen Montgomery, and the T4T course ("Technology For Teachers") course Wesley is teaching in Spring 2010. Content from the book and on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License.

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