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National Education Technology Plan. Technology Curriculum--infuse tech with major changes. Good reading...my sense is that we, as educators, need to be more proactive about leading with technology.

reader's theater reading guides recordings author-of-the-week Use password:jlsls if you need it and leave username free

Great suggestion. Thanks, Debbie. Kay

I just used this site/download with an iPod project in my classroom. It is probably the most important site I have found in years. The primes is simple and there are probably pleanty of other sites like it but.... WOW. You can drop your files into the dropbox and they are saved to the "cloud". Then amazingly they are on every computer ( or iPod) you have linked to the account. I entered my account info on the student iPods and made a folder for each student, when they were done with a project, they saved it to the folder. The great thing about this was i could access their assigment from anywhere, my home computer, my iPhone, another iPod in the class, the smart board...it was limitless, I could share it with anyone, no matter where I was...how powerful. I also made a folder of "mrs. Kondrick's resources" where I put videos, audios, assignments, rubrics etc, and then they could watch them/use them at their own pace ( so ethnic that works well with our individualized daily 5 reading block.

Good ideas for teaching students how to navigate and use digital texts. We know that more and more students are reading online and with mobile devices, good informative blog entry from Tech & Learning (2-9-11).

Baby Mouse, graphic novels authors--Matthew Holm and Jennifer Holm are writing a new graphic series about an amoeba. I have heard them in person (IRA 2011) and they are great on this podcast too. I think kids would like hearing this podcast!

NY Times Article on the value of technology in schools. Since digital literacy is critical for participation in 21st Century, I am not sure I buy their argument regarding the tie in to stagnant scores--assessments don't really do a good job of measuring digital literacy (thought Donald Leu and colleagues have certainly made strides in teh area). Nevertheless, a good piece to read.

Article on impact of iPad on reading and writing.

I'm not sure if they make better readers but iPads certainly improve engagement.

NY Papers--serial story. Recommended by Debbie Dermady, President, NYS Reading Association.

Article discusses the importance of good teaching and how technology enhances students' learning, but teaching kids to think deeply or critically has to be encouraged. Worth a read.

Department of Education--information on not blocking websites. A must read for educators (and to forward to those in control of 'unblocking' websites!)

PDFs of genre poster.

Great cautionary article on colleges 'googling' students. Should be read by every middle and high school student (and their teachers and parents as well)!

Edutopia on the power of digital storytelling--good overview. 12/15/14. Worth a read.

Slidereader displays text in limited amounts--good for accommodation and differentiation. Free download. Worth checking out.

Nonfiction text structures are reviews here as well as Web 2.0 tools. Connections to CCSS are also made.

Debbie Dermady sent me this link (Thinkfinity) with lots of ideas for National Poetry Month.

New literacies with links (e.g., visual literacy). Good starting point.

Lexile measure for readability--CCSS suggestion.

Ideas for using TED talks to stimulate reading, writing, and the language arts.