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Great article about the inner lives of girls and how that relates to reading, especially the Twilight series

A quick-start guide for teachers who want to try something new in the 2010-2011 school year.

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.

Jeff Utecht describes how you can use Goodreads to track students' independent reading.

"Web Tools in Action" A wicki where you can post how and why you use a web tool in your classroom. More about implementation than about the tool itself.

Article, Voice, and Transcript on the Origin of Language / Speech - emphasis on sign language and singing

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

A great page of advice on how to manage your time. If you are an online instructor, or an online student, you'll find valuable resources here. Now if you only had the time to follow this link right? Try it, you'll like it!

Students begin by analyzing how specific songs might fit with a familiar story. Students then create their own soundtracks for the movie version of a novel they have read. They select songs that match the text and fit specific events in the story.

Hmmm..... an object lesson in how not to use sources.

"Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We'll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we'll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory."

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

Resource kit with materials about evaluation of web 2.0 content. A building block for information fluency: knowing how to evaluate digital resources.

How do feel about Wikipedia? This brilliant article from Doug Johnson.

A simple online game to teach students how to check the accuracy of digital information.

Self-paced training module on Accuracy and Fact Checking. This is a free online module designed to promote fact checking. Our research has found that students resist the idea of looking beyond the surface. They need to be specifically taught how to verify facts.

Software classified by category with info on how they can be used to meet FL state standards. Some lesson plans.