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Here's an excellent website for teaching kids creativity, literacy (storytelling and spelling) and technology! Check out the make a movie feature, where kids as young as kindergartners can learn the basics of basically Flash, by learning about objects, timelines, and actions. Very cool!

Information on what the millennials are like.

Cool new media book!

an open university--tuition free!

This website provides free study guides for many subject areas, including Literature, US History, Poetry, and Civics. I am way excited about it, because teachers need study guides sometimes, too! It would be a great way for students to find a compilation of information to use for projects or to study for tests.

A member of our class shared this on their blog. It's another great site for finding material with flexible copyrights that are easier for us to use and reuse on the Internet or in projects.

This website has lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, and tons of other stuff!

This student in the F2F class did a great video project on a Percy Shelley poem. Check it out for an example of using video to represent/interpret poetry!

this is an interesting use of technology in the English classroom -- to express poetry through video

it also has tips for creating videos in the classroom that I thought were helpful

A conversation from teachers of IPT286 courses around the country about what Firefox/web plugins they find are most useful for teachers!

A good example of a webquest by Ruth

Janet's example of using Librivox and pictures for illustrating a classic text.

This poet shows an excellent example of how a poem should be presented. Mike uses everything from relating to the audience, truth not fact, and his movements are purposeful.

I found this list of tips from another teacher, actually, but I thought it would be handy to use for a poetry unit. I love what it says about how to write successful poetry, and even perform it. It's great!

It is great that as teachers we can use technology to find lesson plans that contribute or assist to our own lesson plans. This site has an entire unit on The Great Depression and New Deal that involves multiple research based strategies such as cooperative learning and non linguistic representation. I actually used one of the lessons during my practicum and the kids loved it!

Really good article on how to make simple, but uncrackable, passwords.

I love videos! Even students who do not claim to be "visual learners" enjoy a video because it keeps their attention and helps them remember the information they are viewing. I have used this website multiple times when teaching lessons in various schools and they have always gone over well. Plus, not only is it a great resource, but it is also allowed in internet filters. YouTube, on the other hand, is blocked in the majority of schools.

Good for my article on online civility. Why we need more forgiveness and forgetting in a digital age.