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English grammar and writing podcast

This blog is really useful for Apps - as they say, there are an overwhelming number of them and they cull through to find the best in various disciplines.

As a language instructor, I just love this idea of synchronous communication! :)

I was having trouble get acquanited with Diigo. This video helped me so much.

Video explaining diigo in plain English

Very informative video on how to understand the benefits of using Diigo!

This articles provides great information about blogging in general and how blogs may be used in the classroom.

#TT1921 (Beverly Bradley) This will be a great asset for my English classes.

Colorín Colorado is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of bilingual, research-based information, activities, and advice for educators and families of English language learners (ELLs). Colorín Colorado is an educational service of WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in the nation's capital, and receives major funding from the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association.

Welcome to the Center on Instruction, your gateway to a cutting-edge collection of scientifically based research and information on K-12 instruction in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learning. Part of the Comprehensive Center network, the Center on Instruction is one of five content centers serving as resources for the 16 regional U.S.

A New York Times article about a teacher incorporating social media to an English class.

Blogging about technological tools useful for teaching composition

The Math Club at Virginia Commonwealth University provides this guide for the web's best math websites, math blogs, math YouTube videos, classic math textbooks, etc.

If I made a Diigo site for my students, I would include this bookmark.

I have added a bookmark for an article about college readiness. This topic is particularly popular as of late, especially with Math and English.

tells very quickly what twitter is about.

Good visual on how to use Twitter.

a fun video that explains wikis for anyone who is confused.

Here is a tool which will work for larger groups, as for example if we wanted to survey all 3,000 first year English students in one poll group

A basic start to bringing twitter to a high school english class.

This is a website my students (and I) use frequently when learning the rules of MLA formatting and citation rules.

short and effective video intro to using wikis.

I needed this. Thanks.