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This link is a fairly lengthy video of Obama's speech explaining his program R2T, and can help all teachers become more literate as to the new federal policies regarding education.

Contains thousands of lesson plans and references for all ages and content areas.

Large collection of online books and etexts all for free

We've all heard of blogs, but this site has twisted blogs to make them a little more creative and fun and coined them glogs. They are basically kind of like an online bulletin board where you can upload videos, images, text, etc. It is a great alternative teaching method for teachers and can be a new way for kids to learn/post information, too.

This is a website that has tons of blogs from teachers all across the country. The website tries to connect teachers and share educational ideas, concepts, and meaningful topics.

This website offers a place for teachers to connect. You can blog, find other teachers, look at lesson plans and feedback.

This is a great example of a media project that student's could do on a variety of authors. They could put it together using power point and showing it to the class could be beneficial for all students when reading texts by that particular author.

I found this article/website to be fairly interesting. It provides some suggestions for interdisciplinary teaching, or teaching across the curriculum. I think that it is important for students to have some type of association between all of the classes they are taking. This might be difficult to do, especially in high school, but it is certainly something to think about.

This site contains a lot of information on just about every aspect of teaching English. All of the various areas broken down, with lesson plan, project and unit ideas on poetry, literature, writing, reading, vocab, grammar, esl, etc.

Although this is sometimes a little inappropriate (as always with Taylor Mali) it hits on a very important topic that we will look at as English Teachers - Proofreading. Pretty much all of Taylor Mali's poems has relevancy and maybe you've seen this or others, but I definitely think it's worth checking out again!

Taylor Mali is funny and edgy as always but he targets a very important topic for English teachers: proofreading.