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This tool allows you to create your own search engine on any topic. Users select the Web sites that are to be used for a search and then keep the search box (the place users will go to in order to type in keywords for the search)

Google Docs is an online word processor that enables you and your students to collaborate to create and share documents online.

Read about collections such as the one created by the Library of Congress as well as other libraries that are becoming digitized.

students will use the Internet to research and create webquests about the texts and authors that Shakespeare studied in grammar school.

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

online timeline maker where students can co-create timelines.

This search tool helps users find quotations on any topic. First, you can search for quotations by author, topic, or words taken from the quote. You can also suggest your own revisions, create booklets and bookmarks, and find information on the source of the quote.

takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood.

"NewLits.org is a wiki space created to collaboratively develop a rich range of specialist resources for middle school language arts/literacy educators (typically Grades 5 to 8). These resources focus variously and broadly on new literacies and digital technologies.