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Comics in Education is a website run by Dr. Glen Downey for the purpose of sharing activities and ideas for using comics and graphic novels in literacy education. Head to the classroom section of the site to find five literacy skills development activities that can be completed online or offline. Those activities include wordless narratives, graphic poetry, cave art, visual note-taking, and symbolic language in words and images. In the classroom section you will also find curriculum connections and explanations of the rationale for using comics with all students.

Teaching Library is a place to find free teaching ideas and lesson resources, all linked to books that can be used in the classroom. Each book has ideas for uses in different areas of the curriculum, along with related video content and downloadable materials. You can browse by category or author.

Today's reality is that readers and information seekers are having increasingly less need to visit a physical library to meet their basic information needs. Digital information sources, readily accessed from classroom, home or mobile computing devices, are the choice of many learners and teachers. The "Net Generation" student increasingly prefers the visual and the virtual rather than the printed text. Why, many educators are asking, does a school need a physical library when seemingly all resources can be obtained using an inexpensive netbook and a wireless network connection? How can these large physical spaces in our schools be re-purposed for greater educational impact? Doug Johnosn

Great blog post with an interesting debate. Should teachers download videos to show in their classrooms when YouTube is blocked at their schools even though they are violating copyright?

teacher resources for classroom video

Connect with other classrooms for reading activities

Free resources every Monday for every grade level of teacher. Great for teacher collaboration.

Learn American History through interactive online games

LMSs use this to create bingo cards for book fair. They use book titles from the Scholastic brochure given to students. Each homeroom teacher (in elem. I would give to each teacher) gets a bingo card. I read 2 or 3 titles each day of book fair over the morning announcements. Teacher/class with winning card get a book for the classroom and a doughnut for breakfast.

EDpuzzle allows you to find existing video content (i.e. Youtube or the like) and personalize it for your students by adding your voice or questions or by cropping the video to your needs.