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This is a great site that contains words games, short stories, and interactive fiction.

Odds are pretty good that if you're talking about changes to teaching and learning that the new Read/Write Web is bringing about, many of the words you are using start with "C."

This is Ann S. Michaelson's blog, Teaching English using web 2.0. In Ann's blog, she talks about incorporating Web 2.0 tools and applications with students in her International English class. There are great posts about how to use different applications, such as blogs and WebNote, as well as ideas for 1:1 classroom activities. As a future English teacher, I am always interested in learning new ways to use Web 2.0 in my classroom. In addition to presenting different tools, Ann also considers how to teach English as a second language.

I really like this blog. I really like her ideas about incorporating web 2.0 into an ESL classroom. Whether it be ESL or just a traditional English classroom, I think that using web 2.0 is a promising way to engage students in learning English.

I like the web 2.0 tools Michaelson introduced in her blog such as Webnotes, Timeline and he vocabulary builder VocabAhead. The webnotes is kind like a combination of google document, google reader and diigo.I think it's convenient for both teachers and students to get useful resources, organize and share them. Although the free version limit the functions, it is still worth trying. The timeline tools is a good one can be used in history course. Using timeline to display flow chart in powerpoint is also a good choice. I like VocabAhead best. It explains words by using image, voice and example sentence. Thus, it makes students much easier to understand a new word and know how to apply in real situation. I think it's a good tool can be used in English class. Thanks for sharing the blog to us.

Blog of Educational Psychologist and former English Teacher, Damien Barexica, who is very involved in integrating technology into the classroom, and in his own words, "Making the Technology fit the lesson and not the other way around."

Thanks for sharing this blog, Alex. It's nice to see technology really being integrated into all content areas. It sometimes is difficult to bring the technology efficiently into an English classroom, as I'm sure you know! This teacher proves that it is possible!

"Best site for building rubric templates." It allows you to pick from a list of projects, (say a Newspaper Article) then it gives you options for categories for the rubric. (grammar, overall design, content, collaboration, illustration, sources etc...) For each category it fills in descriptions of point values, and allows you to add or change whatever you want.

Rubistar allows users to easily create an effective form of evaluation for their projects. You may search existing rubrics created by other teachers to inspire your creativity, or to guide your assessment as you examine the criteria. If you are struggling to find the right words to express the various levels of achievement for your criteria, Rubistar offers rubric templates to assist you in your efforts.

This is a site that is great to use in a classroom. A teacher can pose a question on a board and students can comment on it and express their thoughts. When messages are added, they pop up on the screen like a post-it note. Good for class discussions when the students aren't all together!

This webpage has 17 different Web 2.0 tools and provides links to various resources for each of the 17 tools. I would use this personally for instruction. I would also have my students use various tools listed, such as survey makers, presentation tools and word cloud generators as a classroom tool.

Web 2.0 tools for the classroom - Internet4Classrooms

Glogster is a graphical blog. Students can express themselves through words, music, film, and pictures on this site.

21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students. Allows user to text, images, video, and music in their interactive poster.

I just heard from a student teacher who uses glogster. He said the students really enjoy it.