"Stuck for an idea? Use the suggestions below to spark personal writing with help from New York Times features."

"Here is a collection of guidelines, checklists, and assessment tools to start think-aloud strategies with your students from Jeff Wilhelm's book Improving Comprehension With Think-Aloud Strategies, "

includes information on how-to do reader's theatre with students, recommended books of scripts, and online websites where you can find readers' theatre scripts

Interesting to think how this relates to primary and secondary education.... not just tertiary..... "In an era when students can easily grab material online, including lectures by gifted speakers in every field, a learning environment that avoids courses completely-or seriously reshapes them-might produce a very effective new form of college. That was the provocative notion posed here recently by Randy Bass, executive director of Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, during the annual meeting of the Educause Learning Initiative. He pointed out that much of what students rate as the most valuable part of their learning experience at college these days takes place outside the traditional classroom, citing data from the National Survey of Student Engagement, an annual study based at Indiana University at Bloomington. Four of the eight "high-impact" learning activities identified by survey participants required no classroom time at all: internships, study-abroad programs, senior thesis or other "capstone" projects, or the mundane-sounding "undergraduate research," meaning working with faculty members on original research, much as graduate students do."

"How a handful of researchers are trying to save childhood" by Tom Barlett.... Interesting article on the range of research on the importance of play.... I will be buying some of the books mentioned in the article for the PD collection of the library.

a website/blog by Lindsey Ferrie & Simon Davidson (author of "Taking the PYP Forward"

A great chance to submit the questions you've heard little kids ask about science....  Look forward to Maggie Koerth-Baker discussing some of the them....

example of a video from EngineerGuy -- re the need for green design -- things that can come apart in order to be recycled

"At the annual TED conference in Long Beach, Calif., organizers on Thursday are to announce the winners of the inaugural TED Ads Worth Spreading Challenge, a contest the group began in December to get advertisers to create online marketing videos that people actually want to watch, said Chris Anderson, the curator of the conference."

an example of a digital citizenship continuum

a website that follows all the news about children's and YA lit in the UK -- includes reviews of books

"KidLitosphere Central strives to provide a passage to the wonderful variety of resources available from the society of bloggers in children's and young adult literature."

"I love my job! Everyday I get to live out my passion for teaching and learning in a place that is dynamic and exciting to work. I am a wife, mother of four, literacy coach, author, teacher, presenter, and literacy consultant"

"Promoting the love of books by children, and the continued reading of children's books by adults."

"The blog of a teacher educator discussing poetry, children's literature and issues related to teaching children and their future teachers."

"This site is a place for sharing my thoughts and new learning about using good children's literature in the teaching of reading and writing. " Julie Johnson

"Franki is the author of Beyond Leveled Books (Stenhouse), Still Learning to Read (Stenhouse), and Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop (Scholastic). She is also a regular contributor to Choice Literacy. Mary Lee is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse). Both have been teachers for more than 20 years."