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A film on OhioLINK. Could be helpful for students researching bilingualism. When Massasoit hailed the Plymouth settlers in their own language, they might have taken it for a sign that English would dominate the New World. Packed with surprising etymologies and intriguing stories, this enhanced DVD traces the dynamic relationship between English and America, exploring the linguistic influence of westward expansion, cowboy culture, slave culture, and encounters with the French and Spanish languages. Key works examined include The New England Primer and Webster's The American Spelling Book. Can be viewed using a DVD player or computer DVD-ROM drive. (50 minutes, color) Part of the "Adventure of English" series.

A film on OhioLINK. Could be helpful for students researching bilingualism. "Amok," "boomerang," "bungalow," "bangle," "dumdum," "plonk," "assassin"?these are some of the many words that have entered English by way of colonial expansion. This enhanced DVD explores how the British Empire in its heyday exported its language around the globe and how different forms of speech and vocabulary, as well as different attitudes to English, developed out of that colonial expansion. Rich variations of dialect, accent, and slang are heard in many samples from India, the Caribbean, and Australia. Can be viewed using a DVD player or computer DVD-ROM drive. (50 minutes, color) Part of the "Adventure of English" series.

A film on OhioLINK. Could be helpful for students researching bilingualism. This menu-powered DVD explores how America's rise as an economic power made it the driving force behind the spread of English in the 20th century. A world tour illustrates how English has mixed with other languages from "Franglais" in France to "Singlish" in Singapore and how the dollar's power, coupled with the lure of consumerism, has made English the international trade language. Bringing it full circle, host Melvyn Bragg returns to the British Isles to survey English as it is spoken there now, measuring the influence of American slang and vocabulary from other languages. Can be viewed using a DVD player or computer DVD-ROM drive. (50 minutes, color)\n\nPart of the "Adevnture of English" series.

This is a computerized English-language reader. This is something that will correct your grammer and spelling at the same time. It is something like Microsoft Word, but this is a whole new way.

The Kindle is a new technology with reading. This will read aloud to you no matter where you are. This new technology helps kids with their reading dissabilities by reading to them.

This article in the USA Today talks about the Kindle and IPhone. These devices have the ability to put books on the screen and able you to read any time. On the IPhone or IPod Touch the books come up on the screen. With the Kindle, it does the same thing as the IPhone, but it also reads to you.

Kindle is a electronic book reader. In this technology, kindle is a hand-held device that will help you read. This technology will not only have the words on the screen, but it will read to you.

The author of a new book says no, and talks about how a site spawned by an Ayn Rand enthusiast became our most popular encyclopedia. This is an interview about the book. Those of you interested in this should check out the book being discussed.

This article could be of use to students researching K-12 education or technological literacy.

Simple description of 1337 speak.

This article is about literacy. It is helpful.

How the moving image is upending the printed word.

Hanging out online helps teenagers develop "technological skills and literacy," a researcher on a new study said.

Children and teenagers who play violent video games show increased physical aggression months afterward, according to new research that adds another layer of evidence to the continuing debate over the video-game habits of the youngest generation.

An article that explains a debate that has raged for years in academic circles. When you read online, are you reading or skimming? Is the Internet killing reading or just helping students develop different skills?

Slow reading counterbalances web skimming.

Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic that the Internet is melting their brains.