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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.

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

Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here.

Pre-Grade Your Paper: Free Online Grammar Checker and More. Checks Plagiarism too. Free. Maintained by Linguists and grad students. Plan to off more serves for a fee in future. Also has a link to Vocabulary Builder.

Bill Clinton discusses Shakespeare's Macbeth, Richard II, and Henry V.

The Reading Writing Poster Pack

IWB downloads for ELA. Looks to require other software, which I'm sure is easily attainable. 

Collection of 'learning objects.' Lots of math and science stuff, but some good English stuff in here as well.

Romeo and Juliet IWB lesson ready to go.

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.

Great wiki of research tools!

Lots of different responses to a question someone posted on a tech forum. For recent responses, scroll to bottom.

A free online visual resume service. Interesting possibilities for teachers, e.g., clips of demo lessons, blog & other social media in classroom, etc.

Great Word Site. Has lots of info about Anagrams, Palindromes, Spoonerisms, Oxymorons, Tongue Twisters, Pangrams , Rebus Puzzles, Malapropisms, Mnemonics, Tom Swifties, Word Records, Nym Words, Redundancies, Ambiguities,, Net Lingua, Etymology, Rhyming Slang, and games. Has a book and games store, but most info is free.

WinFF will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time.