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"Have you ever felt the power and lift of literature? Has one book - or perhaps one author - inspired you to change your view of yourself or your world? If so, we encourage you to enter this year's Letters About Literature writing competition. All you have to do is write a personal letter to an author, explaining how his or her work affected you."

KidderLit is a fun way to discover new books and authors. Every morning, while sensible people are sleeping, the folks at KidderLit and its sister site TwitrLit are hard at work, combing through the stacks of the local library. Why? So that when you wake up and rush to your computer, there will be a new literary teaser waiting for you. Every morning we'll post the first line of a young adult or children's book here at KidderLit.com. The trick is that we don't tell you what the book is or who the author is. To find out, you have to click the link to be taken to the book's page on Amazon.

This is a kid Twitter thing!

"Throughout its history, the BBC has aimed to help audiences delve into the imagination of writers. This collection of interviews with some of the 20th Century's most read authors reveals something of those imaginations and the personalities which lie behind some of the greatest modern novels. "

Enter an author's name and get a visual representation of similar authors.

"All of the books available for online reading are children's picture books appropriate for children through age ten. There is a mix of fiction and nonfiction, a range of authors, and an equal balance between read-alouds and books for independent readers. We'll be adding news books every month, together with special seasonal offerings. We are dedicated to delivering award-winning books empowering you to read and share beautiful stories with children in your life. With age-appropriate content for young readers, our goal is to create memories that will last a lifetime."

EasyBib's citation guides for book, journal, newspaper, magazine, website. "Each source includes a number of examples pointing out where a student can find the different things they need for their bibliography - titles, authors, copyright dates, volume numbers, and more."

This link takes you to the Delicious book marks of Linda McDermon the author of the article Bring the World into Your Classroom.

I will be sharing sites I found in an article called Bring the Word into Your Classroom.

"Watch as a book-loving ape and a tech-savvy donkey exchange words...from bestselling author Lane Smith comes this adorable nod to traditional books."

Ahead is a web application that facilitates Creative processes. We are a team of architects, designers, developers, and business people with backgrounds in the creative industry. Ahead originated out of frustration with the shortcomings of current tools for online collaboration and publishing because we don't think they support rich media and visual creative processes and communication very well. Inspired by the proven zoom and pan user interfaces known from main creative authoring tools like Autodesk, Adobe, and Sketch-up we're committed to develop the first online tool ever that makes it as fast, natural and fun to publish and work with visual concepts together online.

a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique. Recommended by K. Hokanson

"MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL."

"Chemistry Add-in for Word...Empowering students, teachers, and chemists to author documents easily in the language of chemistry"

doXtop is your own, full-blown virtual publishing house * Manage and publish anything you've written for audience * Author and collaborate freely across corporate and international barriers * Distribute publications via content-rich Web sites, RSS feeds and secure extranets with a click * Engage with colleagues and readers with built-in Web 2.0 functions * Market your published content to any audience

"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here."

"The internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators & parents. Over 20,000 relevant links personally selected by an educator/author with over 30 years of experience. "

In this article from ESchool News, Florida professor and author Kevin Yee offers up 10 great suggestions for incorporating effective interactive learning approaches in the classroom.

Through our interactive projects, journals, games and publications, this treasure trove from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages with affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and sense of fun, and words of comfort and healing.

Daily Grammar provides simple and clear lessons on the basics of English grammar for grades 5-12. Set up in modules of five examples and a follow-up quiz, the simiplicity of the approach and the explanations make this a great site for students to use on their own when they feel they need self-paced remediation or enrichment. Mr. Bill Johanson, the author of the material, is a former junior and high school English teacher, with 30 years experience in the classroom.