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Nice mashup to news stories in VOA for reading and listening practice.

Just paste in a text, and this site will walk you through the steps to create a reading lesson.  Very nice.

"STORIES DISPLAYED ON MAPS GEO-LOCATED INTERACTIVE TIMELINES WITH A SOCIAL TWIST Watch and read thousands of fascinating timelines, or create your own. Complete with text, video and pictures to create a dynamic timeline mashup. Using myHistro, you can combine maps and timelines seamlessly into one great presentation, convert any public timeline into a personal pdf file, or export it into Google Earth format for offline storage. All completed timelines can be embedded into your blog and websites for maximum exposure. "

Gulsum mentioned that she is using an interactive timeline (http://www.tiki-toki.com/) as a web-based material to teach tenses. Very nice idea. This is a new timeline I hadn't seen before, which produces a 'mashup' of maps and a time line -- very neat idea. One idea to use with students is to get them to create a short personal history of their family.

Great archive of readings - dated but all out of copyright.

Some readıng actıvıtıes.

Readability analysis for young learners, based on native speaker data.

Neat site that produces an automatic summary of a web page or a piece of text pasted in.  NOTE:  this is an executive summary, not a paraphrase.