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Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success

Excellent site for English teachers who want to incorporate some creative fiction either for reading or writing. Have kids write their own three-minute stories.

Links to 12 sites where you and students can obtain free images to use on webpages and in Powerpoint presentations. Be sure to review the sites for possibly inappropriate images though!

We create a single wiki, "A Critical Supplement to Major History Textbooks," and create a page on it for each textbook we're using, in whatever class. In our classrooms, we assign student teams to tackle each section of the textbook by identifying any perceived biases, coverage emphases and de-emphases, omissions, errors of fact, and so forth, in that section, and publish their findings on that textbook's page on the wiki.

National Recitation Project for how to set up and run your own poetry out loud project in class or for the competition. Different than a slam: students choose existing poems by recognized poets and perform it through oral recitation. Go to the site and ch

Website for all Adler's ideas, books. Includes lists and foundations for Great Books ideas.

Audiobooks (including textbooks) for blind & dyslexic students

These life histories were compiled by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts.

This wiki was created to support a 20 minute CUE Tips session at the 2008 CUE conference and was updated for CUE 2009. Blogs, Wikis, and Google Docs can be powerful and easy to use tools for educators, but their features are overlapping and it can sometimes be difficult to know which one is right to meet a given need. This session is an effort to help sort that out.

comprehensive site for character and ethics education at Santa Clara University. Abundant instructional resources for teachers.

Excellent compendium of practical strategies and resources for using comics in the classroom for a variety of purposes.

A free, dedicated social networking site for teens ages 14-18 where members can not only read new S&S teen titles online, but also share their enthusiasm for books with fellow members of the site, communicate with authors, and use a wide variety of up-to-date digital tools to express their interests and opinions.

free books every month for teens...pretty sweet

Fantastic vanity press site for publishing. We used it for our literary mag and loved it!

The purpose of the survey was to ascertain the level of awareness and openness to mobile learning among English language teachers. I also wanted to find out to what degree and how teachers were already using mobile learning both in their teaching and and professional development and to establish whether they would be willing to pay for and use mobile content. The survey also collected information about the teachers' existing access to mobile services and the kinds of device they are using to get access to mobile Internet.

10 tools for searching your old tweets. Includes reviews of each and suggestions for use.

Teaching digital literacy, information literacy, citizenship literacy via journalism lessons and resources for 7-12 grade students. I like the combination of writing journalism with the deep thinking skills needed for information fluency.

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.

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