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Jog the Web is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique.

"lots of English and history applications. It'd be fun to write survival guides for self-destructive historical or literary figures- maybe Edgar Allen Poe or Custer."

Custard?

:) That's embarrassing! I guess I was hungry when I added that. General Custer not Custard.

A classic painting from English Romantic artist that has been used for many book covers. Most recently encountered on cover and as guiding metaphor in Gaddis's "The Landscape of History" (very interesting book). Plan to use this first day of class to generate discussion in AP Lit about painting, literature, art, and their lives.

This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).

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!

Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and we've heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.

MLA citation style guide for research papers.

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

The Big Read/NEA's Reader's and Teacher's Guide for Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Excellent radio show.

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

Teaches students to evaluate journalistic quality

Books like this may guide writing teachers in the e-classrooms of tomorrow

Digital Investigator Training Digital DIF Investigator Applying the Digital Information Fluency (DIF) Process Digital Investigator Training is a way for middle and high school students to learn valuable digital information fluency skills. Educators interested in the teacher's guides should contact us at: 21cif@imsa.edu Start Here (materials open in a new window.) In this training course you will learn to: Power Search for Digital Resources Evaluate Digital Materials Use Digital Materials in an Ethical Manner

Harvard explains critical reading. Via Jim Burke.

There's a title that gets your attention! Thanks DH an JB.

comprehensive resources to find and cite primary sources. our senior seminar will visit the Library of Congress next year as the beginning of the research project. Provides citation examples and guides for MLA and Chicago styles.