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How cool is this? Text your question to ChaCha and they reply with an answer in minutes. Similar to goog411, but has a better name.

This would be great for students who took in information better in auditory form.

Current events and news via your cell phone. Just dial this number and get updates: 408-907-2323

Take this video, put it into the context of your latest classroom reading, be it novel, short story, poem, what have you, and ask yourself if your students could get into this. It's like video sparknotes, only much much better. Summary isn't always writing...

Does this make sense to anyone?

Here is a revamp of another graphic I have seen before. I like this one better.

This one is better looking than the previous graph I shared.

Re-arrange your classroom, or, better yet, have your students do so and argue why theirs is the best layout for learning.

This is great for all students, but pay particular attention to the section on learning. I am going to highlight the section on "Thinking like a genius."

Great small lessons in how to make yourself a better learner.

Way too funny.

For all of you who strive for better search results.

Look what Erica is up to; better yet, what her students have found in their collaborative work.

Please read this. I love this stuff.

like wordle but better

What do you think of this?

Danielle, That's precisely the question I want everyone thinking about. We truly focus so much of our energies on getting the format down and getting the "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed, and for many of the students we teach, that is completely necessary; however, as we begin to look at the next phase of what we'd like to do in the district which includes more than just being "proficient" on some state test, can we blend some of the thinking in this post into what we are doing. And as for making people angry, my advice is that you don't get the results you really want without making a few people angry along the way. Not that you try to, but when you know that what you are doing will make your students better, you just go with it.

Pat - I'd love to share this post with the kids or incorporate parts of it. I have to say that the best writing that the kids have done is usually the writing they do when we're in class and they just write. One of the hardest parts of teaching English is having to read 130 well constructed essays that follow the rubric but are so dry and boring that I have to restrain myself from stabbing my eyes out with my pen. It all goes back to the fact that in our H.S. the kids can write a great 5 paragraph essay or write persuasively but they have NO VOICE and I feel that the stress on structure and grammar could be why they have no voice. Interesting - we should discuss this a bit at our next Connections meeting!