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Using Blabberize to share poetry.

Dr. Arnie Abrams describes how to teach digital storytelling to students as young as Kindergarten.

SuperKids is a great educational software review site. The site provides rating scales for educational value, kid appeal, age ranges, and ease of use. They also delve into system requirements, price comparisons, and product support. This particular review is on a program called Words Rock! This is a strong drill and test vocabulary/spelling/grammar program, hidden in a search game. The educational component would be attractive to parents and teachers, as well as to students looking to challenge themselves.

Students select a special place that is important to them then take on the roll of a park ranger and through photographs and narration in a short video (which will be turned into an enhanced podcast) explain why this place is special to them, what is unique about it, what are its main features, its history, and what people need to do to help preserve it for the future.

Students use digital still or video cameras to find examples around their school representing facts and opinions. They create an iMovie, sometimes with voiceover, to clearly show their understanding of the two concepts.

Very interesting project that well help students make personal connections to historical events. Students interview family or friends about life experiences related to world or local history. It is interesting to read what students in other parts of the world have written about events we are familiar with. I would love to see them organize the family stories by events as well as countries.

Cynthia Rylant: a collection of web and database resources from the The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. Let us guide you to the resources you need to help your children and students become effective learners. Sample lesson plans for teaching literature.

A blog created by a classroom teacher and her 5th and 6th grade Language Arts classes which includes student book reviews, an author study podcast, an online book club and more.

This blog is a good example of how students can write book reviews to be shared with their peers. It will also be interesting to watch how their online book club develops. I look forward to their How 2 Videos especially the video on finding a good book!

This ISTE designed and inspired site offers help with K-12 professional development and school reform. The bookcase on the left side conatins a lot of good information, including curriculum and student stuff links that lead to resources in math, languages arts, the sciences, soical studies, and more.

Language arts instructor uses DyKnow Vision software to teach students to analyze literature.

A site based on The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease, 6th edition, copyright 2006, focused on children's reading, children's literature, and the benefits of reading aloud to children of all ages; its goal is to create lifetime readers instead of just schooltime readers."

Social networking tool for readers. It is similar to LibraryThing. Readers can use it to find new books they might like to read based on reviews or recommendations by friends or strangers with similar tastes.