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The Andrew Blake (1757-1827) Archive in North Carlolina, USA, is "not a physical repository of Blake's collected works, nor is it a clearinghouse through which users can obtain reproductions of those works. [...]" It is "an online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work.

The College now has a student subscription to this site. If you direct students to access it with the username Sheldon and the password College they can access it at home. Either that or you can use it in the classroom.

An article in last week's Education Week looks at the increasingly common practice of reading aloud to middle and high school students. In discussing the practice with Mary Ann Zehr (I'm quoted briefly in the piece) I made the point that while there is certainly nothing wrong with reading out loud to teenagers, it is symptomatic of what I call "literacy creep" - the tendency of elementary school-style instructional techniques to find their way deeper into K-12 education across all content areas.

Might have some links useful for social geography (Americans call it 'human geography'). 

The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War which has been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant on Western archival sources. It also seeks to transcend barriers of language, geography, and regional specialization to create new links among scholars interested in Cold War history.

Here is an example of a social network in education. I heard it recently called 'network learning.' Ning is the best platform I've found, although the adds can be annoying. (>)_(<)

Looks like it might be useful for teaching literature in English.

THE best presentation creation tool I've ever seen. Once you get used to it you can create awesome presentations and the free access section gives you quite a bit of storage. You create them online and then download them as a package to play anywhere. Very cool!

An improvement on Wordle by the looks of it.

I'm not a big user of graphic organisers myself, but if you're into them then this site will be very useful. It looks like the secret hiding place of graphic organisers.

This is an excellent place to get resources for the Australian Curriculum. It will be really helpful in semester 2.