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Leanne Gosey, a masters student in reading, reflects on writing instruction, technology integration, and teaching. Thoughtful stuff. Recommended to other students, beginning teachers, and teacher educators.

This site gives a brief definition of what literacy means. It points out that literacy is not just knowing isolated pieces of information, but rather having the ability to use language in broader ways. This site also provides literature "Research" information and additional websites and resources for teachers.

I thought this site was very detailed and thought through to help assist teachers or educators with their questions about literacy. On the website you will find the definition of literacy, their literacy beliefs, literature review, action research, references, and favorite literacy web sites. Under literacy beliefs, they have broken down the term into four categories- learner, curriculum, teacher, and assessment. This is great for educators as they can read specific beliefs on literacy based on the specific topic of interest or need.

A great resource for teachers. It is a kid friendly and teacher friendly search engine for lesson plans, activities, and interactives. I use this a lot in my classroom, and the search results are great. I have found several reading links as well as social studies and science connection links for reading.

Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.The reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

I have gotten really great reading strategies from this website.

This site has a ton of reading tips, strategies, lessons, technological resources, and activities geared to help parents, teacher, and all involved with teaching/learning reading! There are author interviews here as well!

Edublog 2011 award winners of Best Educational Wikis: ICTmagic is 1st place, Resources for History Teachers 2nd. Links to these and others.

These free applications provide a wide variety of engaging learning opportunities for young students (and you can't beat the price). The Apple iPad is becoming more popular in our schools every day (just check out this EmergingEdTech video to appreciate how quickly the iPad is gaining hold in our schools).

The Kindersite has 1,000s of graded educational games, songs and stories, Used by 11,540 schools in 136 countries. Recommended by teachers worldwide as the best way to introduce technology and English to children. Fun site!

Songs for Teaching® The Definitive Source for Educational Music Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum - to students of all ages. This website has lyrics you can pull up for students to follow along and read while learning to sing the songs. We love using music in our classroom to introduce new topics and get students engaged!

This blog says that it is used for students and teachers. It is a place to set up a blog to use it classrooms. It is free and only for education. There is also a way to manage class blogs. Check it out and see if you could use it in your classroom.

First rate education blog by a middle school teacher and author in Phoenix. Thoughtful, worth the time to visit periodically.

Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner

This blog gives the latest updates on the newly found educational apps for teachers and students. I have used this several times to see what is new or what is out there that someone else has tried and has had success with.

Explicit strategy instruction is at the core of good comprehension instruction. Teachers should help students to understand why a strategy is useful, how it is used, and when it is appropriate. The most frequently researched strategies can be applied across content areas; other content-area specific strategies are emerging, and we will include them here in the future.

Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

This article informs you of the problem with bookmarking, what social bookmarking is, why you should use it, and why you should choose Diigo over the others. According to this article, they feel that Diigo is more useful for teachers or students than the many others to choose from. It provides a link to the Diigo Educator Accounts and gives you instructions on how to set up your classroom or group.

Wow! Wealth of info, tutorials, links to all sorts of useful educational technology.

Mooresville, NC tech in classroom story in NY Times.

Anybody know any teachers who teach here? Or who lost their jobs here to hire a computer? Interesting read.