Recently, students have started using Microsoft Word to compete their journals one to three times a week (using a rotating schedule and one day of full-time computer lab access).
Article about the learning benefits of using podcasts in the social studies curriculum when the goal was to try to infuse reading and writing into the curriculum.
Dr. Christie speaks nationally on using geocaching, webquests and something she calls GoogleTreks as an educational tool. This site has some resources for all of those topics.