English Companion Ning Group

We take it for granted as English language teachers that we need to develop our students' reading skills, but in most cases the nearest our students get to reading online is a printed version of a web page pre selected by their teacher. At best they may actually get to see a pre selected page on the screen of a computer, but is this enough to really develop their digital literacies?

"Text2Phonetics is a very handy site if you like to use phonemic script with your students. It can take a lot of the hard work out of transcribing text to phonetic symbols. You just paste in a short piece of text, click a button, and it does it for you."

Build your objectives using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy.

The possibility of the National Writing Project being killed by the Senate makes me physically ill.  Follow up on this article, call your senator. Stop the destruction of a national educational resource that we cannot let die.

"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."

Great tutorial handouts from Bucks County Community College.

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

Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.

may be useful for British Lit or World Lit teachers: my resource page on bestiaries for my mythology unit/World Lit.

Shakespeare meets Craigslist.

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

This chart includes Web 2.0 tools to be used with each level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and hyperlinked to the the tools' websites.

This is fantastic--I already sent it to everyone in my department. Thx