Literacy Coaches

"Over the past decade, a new wave of nonfiction resources have emerged on the Internet. Many of the traditional resources such as directories are now available online. In addition, blogs have introduced a new type of periodical that may contain audio and video in addition to text."

Over the past decade, a new wave of nonfiction resources have emerged on the Internet. Many of the traditional resources such as directories are now available online. In addition, blogs have introduced a new type of periodical that may contain audio and video in addition to text.

With Thinkature, you can create a collaborative workspace and invite coworkers, friends, and colleagues to join you in just seconds. Once inside your workspace, you can communicate by chatting, drawing, creating cards, and adding content from around the Internet. It's all synchronous, too - no need to hit reload or get an editing lock.

Imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. WatchKnow-as in, "You watch, you know"-has started building this resource.

Add Bubbles to any video, Post it anywhere you wish!

Imagine using this tool with students to crtically evaluate a video text.....and that's just one use!

"Speechable™ is a free photo service that lets you easily upload and add speech bubbles to your photos and share them with friends via email or on Facebook®, MySpace®, Orkut, blogs, and message boards."

Some of the links on this site are worth a look.

Don and Jenny Killgallon's Sentence Composing Home Page"> english, sentence, composing, sentence composing, killgallon, don, jenny, publish, book, grammar, variety, combining, syntax, structure, writing, teaching, methods

The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced writing project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques. Award Winner 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing received a first-place Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). Explore NWP.org's resources on Teaching Writing Writing Prompts English Language Learners Grammar and Usage Academic Writing Writing Across the Curriculum Find more of NWP's free articles on teaching writing More Resources on Teaching Writing Find out more about NWP Read about NWP's impact on student achievement Visit the NWP Bookstore Free Copy of 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing Download a PDF version now. Buy A Copy for $1 Order 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing online. Few sources available today offer writing teachers such succinct, practice-based help-which is one reason why 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing was the winner of the Association of Education Publishers 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Materials. These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications

A resources that will support our discussion around gaming for learning. A good site to share with teachers.

Database of historic Australian newspapers

John Hattie's research

worth reading.

Just found this piece of significant research the other day which challenges some of these findings: http://blog.une.edu.au/news/2009/07/22/

Create your own eBooks

BookGlutton is an online bookstore and community for reading groups. It allows online communities to chat inside the book they're reading and annotate each paragraph, sharing their activity with other readers.

Check out the latest video booktalk for kids, featuring children's books for kids ages 8-14.

The literacy page on my Debs Place wiki - for resources realting to literacy and elearning

How to install the Diigo toolbar. This makes bookmarking web sites much easier!! Instructions are here for Internet Explorer as well.