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The site has an educational games site designed to help students learn about subjects in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. In all there are twenty-nine interactive games for students to play. Each of the science-related games and the economics game is based upon the research of Nobel Prize winners. The literature and peace games are based upon concepts central to the work of Nobel Prize winners in those fields.

The SparkNotes YouTube channel offers 23 short animated video overviews of literature commonly read in US high school courses.

60second Recap® wants to make the great works of literature accessible, relevant, and, frankly, irresistible to today's teens. Through 60second Recap® video albums, we seek to help teens engage with the best books out there ... not just to help them get better grades, but to help them build better lives.

Abstract This article defi nes Twitter TM ; outlines the features, affordances, and common uses; and conceptualizes "tweeting" as a literacy practice, comprising  both traditional and new literacies, and impacting both informal and formal  learning settings. Also provided is an overview of traditional and new literacies, and insights from a scan of the research literature to date on tweeting as  a literacy practice. The authors outline areas for inquiry and the challenges  to conducting such research. 

Listen to a selection from the British Library's extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.

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"Despite substantial investment in ICT in education and a significant body of relevant research and literature ICT has had a limited impact on education. We need to understand reasons why this might be in order to improve the situation. 'Computer frameworks' may be part of the solution. There are lots of existing frameworks, but these share several important limitations. The CPF (Computer Practice Framework) was designed to overcome these limitations and thus help to increase the effectiveness of future investments in ICT in education."

"The report is based on global research, including the 'iPad Scotland Evaluation Study' that Sciennes Primary School took part in, and seeks to explore 1) if we know enough to demonstrate if, how and when iPads support learning 2) the key ideas from the literature on the effective use of iPads and other post-PC tablet devices and 3) the implications of tablet technologies for school leaders, network managers, teachers, learners and their parents."

"Listen and explore the sublime world of Tolkien with the guidance of The Tolkien Professor, Corey Olsen - an English professor with a Ph.D. in medieval literature and has been a student of Tolkien's work for as long as he can remember. Join him on a rich and exciting exploration of Tolkien's stories through his podcast series."

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openlyavailable to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

"In 1660, at age 26, Samuel Pepys began his diary. He stopped a decade later. From 2003 until 2012 this site featured a daily entry from the diary accompanied by thoughts from readers. The complete diary, and the associated background information, is now an archive of this period of London history."

A web app that searches for a photo on a theme of your choice, allows you to choose one, then provides the structure for you to write a haiku based on it ... and attributes the photo for you!

from @johnjohnston

At NaNoWriMo, we provide the support, encouragement, and good old-fashioned kick in the pants you need to write the rough draft of your novel in November.

An interactive literary map

Great online stories read by some famous actors. Produced by The Screen Actors Guild, its a great resource especially for book week.

A stick figure comic of the play originally by Shakespeare, but adapted by Dan Carroll

How about perhaps getting students to adapt another play in this way? A whole year group maybe could make some inroads? Re-organising and rethinking content in this way would surely help with understanding and might entice in some of those reluctant Shakespeare-ophobes.