Useful Links (weekly)

Youth – Book Trailer genres A large range of video book trailers with a YA section Educational Networking – List of Networks listing of social networks used in educational environments or for educational purposes  EditMe – Wiki Web Publishing: Simple, Collaborative & Extensible EditMe lets you make a web site in minutes and edit the content with a [...]

Great First lines

There have been some great and/or provocative opening lines to stories. There are opening lines that set the scene or atmosphere, that challenge/encourage the reader to go on. Some of these lines have begun fantastic stories, other stories never quite live up to that opening. This past week a number of classes have come into [...]

EyePlorer – beta visual search engine

I have been looking at other visual search engine alternatives to SearchMe. Beta visual search engine EyePlorer is a reference search engine that takes your initial keyword search term and displays related terms in a color wheel of information based around that term. When you hover over the different areas of the color wheel or click on a [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

Right Words 2009 :: Child Soldiers Writing Competition :: Home Page A writing competition for British students but this could be applied locally anywhere. Lesson plan and resources are all provided. A good social justice project for middle and senior years as it offers students the opportunity to develop perspectives by seeing the life of the [...]

Google Lit Trips

Another practical use for Google Earth has been found in these interesting lessons that utilize this application.  On the website named Google Lit Trips  you will find a list of lessons using various texts in which a virtual “trip” has been planned for use in describing events, settings, etc. of a story.  2 interesting videos as an [...]