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this could be fun.... Supported by the Brisbane Writers' Festival the Online Literature Festival offered the opportunity for teachers and students across Australia to meet and work with their favourite authors and illustrators. Students from Prep to Year 12 had the opportunity to interact with special online guests through a variety of web tools. Students can demonstrate their digital literacy skills through participation in a Book Rap based on their favourite Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) short listed title.

Writing Fix (online resource) Here's an interesting free resource for anyone involved in teaching or learning writing skills. This site has been put together by the writers, teachers and students of the Northern Nevada Writing Project to support the development of writing skills with the Six Trait Model. The site hosts an extensive collection of lessons, activities and other resources. (The Writing Fix is one of 190 web sites sponsored by the National Writing Project in the US.) Featured prominently at the Writing Fix are two separate "prompt generators". One is called the "Interactive Instant Plot Creator". You press separate buttons to bring up random suggestions for setting, character, and conflict. To go along with this idea generator, there is a downloadable "pre-writing worksheet" as well as a "rough draft worksheet". The other generator is called the "Random Prompt Generator for Writers". This second prompt generator consists of 470 prompts, each of which begins with a question that is followed by a suggested writing task.

I have never seen flipsnack before - I am axcited about the posibilities of it - but in addition to that here is a really easy to use reference for web tools matched up to blooms. 

Yes, emerging technologies have great potential. But how do we make them work in our schools today? This session explores the implementation of a multi-dimensional digital space with three components-a course space, a student-content creation space, and a knowledge commons that supports both-and examines how they support the development of learning literacy. Come prepared to evaluate these three spaces and discuss the organizational readiness that was required to take them from conversation to implementation.

some sound ideas here

A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work. A cafe without walls or coffee: just friends.

This is a blog I suspect you may well find worth reading - if the authors keep it up. It is best to add it to your RSS feeds. If you don't know what that is ask the library or me:)

a useful site to convert pdf's to editable word docs

This is an excellent method for yr 10-12 to adopt when r eading forcontexts and using language to persuade.

long post but he does get to the point

excellent thinking and language activity - will help with discussing concepts and ideas and good ways to express them. Take the time to have a listen

and excellent way to get students to both write an original story and work online.

For each unit I provide a set of possible texts and a possible conceptual focus. Keep in mind that my intention here is to suggest possibilities rather than to prescribe a curriculum; there are many other units that you could develop, and different texts and focuses for each of the units that I outline.

looks good for those who wish to improve their use of ICT 0 both in knowling the software and in determining which to use for what

Discover creative strategies for bringing novels to life for middle and high school students with this workshop, featuring the words and works of 10 novelists, including Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, J. K. Rowling, and Toni Morrison. Within the framework of real classroom practice, the workshop offers interviews with contemporary authors, literary critics, teachers, and students, as well as film clips from adaptations of the novels featured. In Search of the Novel poses basic questions that can help you examine the genre from multiple perspectives and bring it to life for your students.