English Companion Ning Group

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

ake a poll of your followers, i.e., your students. Let your students poll each other. This tool could help jumpstart a discussion on a topic.

As teachers make selections from the boxes at the bottom, the choices are entered at the top. By the time a teacher has selected a thinking skill, content, resources to be used, the final product, and the size of the group (one option is "1″), the assessment is summarized at the top of the screen.

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.

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