Feeling confused about copyright law, fair use and manipulating resources for digital learning, as part of your “UDL friendly” curriculum?
Don’t feel so bad. The information is confusing and I am a professional librarian!
A session being held tomorrow at The Washington College of Law in Washington, DC should be promising to help clear the confusion: The [...]

Try some of these excellent resources:
Flamingnet.com
“Who better to tell you if a book is worth reading, than those for whom the book is written.” Students review books written for children, preteens and teens. http://flamingnet.com/index.cfm Mrs. B
Guys Read
Guys choose what guys want to read.
http://www.guysread.com/
KidsRead.com
“Kidsreads is the best place on the web for [...]

Do you find yourself wanting to infuse your classroom with media rich content, but don’t know how to get started?
Are you curious about?

Information Literacy
WebQuests
Wikipedia
Digital Literacy?

Are you a Social Studies Teacher?
Try this blog post on the PBS Media Infusion site, A Great Time to be a Teacher by Dan McDowell. Dan gives helpful ideas, [...]

Teacher Feature: August 007
Maple Heights Teacher of the Year, Susan Jaroscak shares with us a literacy strategy she calls, Think Aloud - Teach Aloud.

Susan makes the Think-Aloud strategy successful in her classroom through deliberate and intentional use, reflection, spiraling strategies throughout instruction, revision, repetition, and authentic assessment.
Interested in learning more?

Visit Read*Write*Think for articles and lesson [...]

Digital text allows for increased flexibility, which helps us to meet the needs of diverse communities of learners in many different instructional contexts. Try this sample of resources for digital text.

Love reading articles in professional journals, but sometimes set the journal down wondering, “What will that actually look like in my classroom?”
Me too.
The smart folks at the International Reading Association are listening and they have begun connecting articles from their journals (The Reading Teacher and The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy) to [...]

The International Reading Association does an annual survey to determine, “What’s Hot, What’s Not” in literacy education. As reported in Reading Today, in its 11th year, the hot list has grown increasingly popular, receiving attention in college courses, professional development and was even summarized in Education Week. The association recently expanded the feature to contain [...]