LMS Academy

Great wiki about all things School Library

This site contains examples webpages of effective practice for elementary, middle, and  high schools. 

Classtools.net is a site that offers teachers creative and organizational tools. Teachers can access the website to create quizzes, diagrams and educational games, which can then be hosted on their own site or blog. The Classtools.net site offers a list of templates to choose from, such as Arcade Game Generator, Random Name Picker, Fishbone, Lights Out, Hamburger and Jigsaw Diagram.

Teach and learn digital skills and web literacy. (The pages in this section are full of fun things to discover, make and teach. Our global community is continually adding new activities, lesson plans and tutorials from across the web that make it easy to learn by doing. Anyone can use these educational resources-they're free, open and backed by Mozilla's non-profit mission.

The teacher selects a story start or inserts his or her own first chapter, and the students use their skills, knowledge and creativity to forward the piece. One chapter at a time, the students write, read, and then vote on the submissions they like the most. The winning submission is added to the piece and the process continues. The teacher determines the total number of chapters to be completed, and when the competition is over a new book is ready to be published.

Comics in Education is a website run by Dr. Glen Downey for the purpose of sharing activities and ideas for using comics and graphic novels in literacy education. Head to the classroom section of the site to find five literacy skills development activities that can be completed online or offline. Those activities include wordless narratives, graphic poetry, cave art, visual note-taking, and symbolic language in words and images. In the classroom section you will also find curriculum connections and explanations of the rationale for using comics with all students.

Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.

This free news source allows you to select current news articles that are written in 4 different lexile levels.

If you want to have your students create their own book trailers in lieu of a traditional book report, you can find a helpful outline of the process here.

Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology.

Recommends books for teens.

Flamingnet's mission is to promote reading and writing among young adults; making reading more fun by highlighting books that young adults may enjoy and fostering literacy through charitable work.

A space that contains curated tools and gadgets in an easy to use database.