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"Learn English for free online with WordSpark! Fun activities for learning in the ESL classroom. Learn English with music, movies, art, reading, puzzles, cloze worksheets, labeled pictures from the day's news, and unique activities for ESL teachers. F"

As it says, some useful activities

On September 6, Random House Children's Books and the online community Stardoll launched Mortal Kiss, a paranormal mystery that will be serialized online globally through the end of October. The interactive story will include opportunities for its readers, mainly digitally savvy teen girls, to shape the story as it unfolds.

Kewl Graf art simulation....without the running from the cops!

"Personification Stories View Student Lesson Plan Export Lesson Plan Example: * Crossing Signal * Brainstorm Example Template: * Brainstorm Traits Worksheet * Project Vision * Project Storyboard Assessment: * Story Rubric * Animation Rubric Grade Level: 3, 4 and 5 Subject: Language Arts Duration: 1 week Objective: Students learn to use personification as they personify an object for a clay animation. Students use conflict, experiences, and situations to help the viewer imagine what it might be like to be a particular object."

You can use personification to make your writing more interesting. Personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities are given to objects, animals, or ideas. For example: the fire breathed hot in our faces and its flames grabbed at our clothes, or the chocolate cake is calling my name. You can find personification at work in lots of different types of writing. Lewis Carroll's uses lots of personification in The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Remember the white rabbit and Alice playing croquet with a deck of cards?

"The mission of MY HERO is to use media and technology to celebrate the best of humanity and to empower young people to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world. Our freely accessible, not-for-profit project is supported by visitors of all ages who share stories, art, and short films on our award-winning multimedia journal and digital library. "

Mark, for your unit on role models

There's no such thing as a free lunch. Or is there? Check out these free Apple iPod Touch apps for English and Language Arts teachers. These are among the best apps for education available today! Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/62720.aspx#ixzz0ecNbooZA

links for art/ict

There's just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them.

Hard to put into words, maybe it just is a wonderful collection of things that hopefully inspires questions in all our kids. Well worth a look.

Nice idea to let someone illustrate an art idea a younger child cannot do yet! Could be great cross grade activity

How to explain it? type a word/words and watch the art occur.

Art links