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"...[H]ere are eight ways you can use Wordles in your class to help learners learn" (¶4, 2011.12.09).

Coiro, Julie. (2005). Making sense of online text. Educational Leadership 62(2), 30-35. Retrieved September 21, 2011, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct05/vol63/num02/Making-Sense-of-Online-Text.aspx "Four challenges face students as they use Internet technologies to search for, navigate, critically evaluate, and synthesize information. Here ... [Coiro] pose[s] each challenge as a question and suggest a corresponding activity that models effective strategies to help students meet that challenge" (A New Kind of Literacy, ¶3).

Children's magazines like their adult counterparts also have accompanying websites. A visitor who drops by won't be able to distinguish between an online magazine and a website (or blog). Most of the online versions of the children's magazines also publish the same content; partly if not all. Here are some that are worth a look and a read.

wonderful resources for my students

Free audio books. Download one in mp3, iPod and iTunes format. reviewed by David Kapuler here: http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com/2010/01/audioowl.html

The focal point for this project is How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague. Participating classrooms can write their own summer vacation adventure story or calculate the miles traveled during their vacation. Both activities will be shared via the Internet. Project begins August 31st.

Free teleprompter/autocue service. Good for folks producing video podcasts

"short, high-interest, nonfiction stories from Scholastic News boost early reading skills and support differentiated reading and ELL students" (2008.09.08)

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for pointing out this site: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/09/07/listen-read/ (2008.09.07)