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A virtual classroom that combines multiple platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc...) using a teacher and student-friendly interface. It looks promising for the ELA classroom, although my concern would be the openness of the site, although it does look like privacy settings are available. Possibly best used with older high school students?

I'm never really sure what the value of being able to read quickly is and whether this effects the amount of information you actually retain when you read, but I do know that getting EFL and ESL students to read in chunks and getting them to read as much as possible can be very beneficial to their language development.

Students often expect their teacher to correct their written errors, but Students can also learn a lot from looking for and correcting errors in written work. This activity gives you the chance to test your correction skills and find errors in short texts using a site called BookOven and a tool called SpellChecker

Use the time-slider on Etherpad to see students' writing process. Very cool!

Good unit plan on Homer's Iliad done by a student teacher for a portfolio. Some good handouts and questions.

Great image for teaching denotation and connotation to students.

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!

Call from LoC for students to help archive the internet. Also link to new LoC teachers' page

Tutorials on tech topics for teachers and students

A great article by the late Frank McCourt about teaching creative writing and learning alongside his students.

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.

Below is Instructify's list of the five best bibliography and citation applications out there. Pass these on to your students and spare them the agony of building bibliographies the hard way.

Will Farren's very interesting project whereby students can lead him to travel to new places and interact with various people.

Teachers as guides to move students beyond the social piece to forming a learning community.

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

A remarkable site that posts up each Sunday. Beware that you not send students to this site as an assignment: Often very adult content that will cost you your job by day's end! I do, however, often print up single postings to transparency or as single ima

This site looks like a good option for allowing students to listen to text.

Wow, this is a PRACTICAL guide to info literacy, from step by step on how to read a website, to how students report the info. FULL of information I can use in my classroom without having to reinvent the wheel myself!