Apps for Education

Publishing "I Am From" Poems--technology integration

From their page: iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. iRead will give you a chance to create meaningful, curriculum-centered audio projects with your students. Teachers are using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, Garageband, iTunes, Keynote, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading processes. Teachers meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and strategies. We started in 2006-07 by collecting data about fluency rates - this has been very promising.

Web Resources organized by grade level, content theme, and standard

Resources for Teaching Mythology

While it uses Delicious as its model, it is a great explanation of Social Bookmarking.

Project working to assemble electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920; includes biographical info on poets

Great resources and lessons for teaching English Language Arts.

A great article on why/how Diigo can be a useful classroom research tool.

This is a Wiki page I use when I present to English teachers at Fresno State during one semester of their student teaching class.