Organizing instruction and classrooms

Organizing Instruction

• General resources about authors
• Reflective Teaching 
• What Does Reading Well Look Like? EdSurge  
• How to Lead Students to Engage in Higher Order Thinking 
• TeachingBooks: Recourses on teaching books
• Designing Digital Interactive Reading Guides
• Using Google Sites to create classroom websites 
• Most frequently taught authors based on analysis of college syllabi. Open Syllabus Project  
• 9 Ways to Keep the Classics Fresh in High School English. We Are Teachers 
• Amazon Inspire: Units
• Making Classroom Libraries the Hubs of Reading Engagement. ASCD Express
• Video: Penny Kittle: Why Students Don't Read What is Assigned in Class 
• My eCoach Online eLibrary: Lots of lesson plans 
• Curriculet: Independent reading program
• Why Teachers Should Stop Teaching Whole Class Novels. Mrs. ReaderPants 
• Sample syllabi, units, lesson plans, and activities for teaching general classic literature
• Teaching literature activities. Open Education Resources 
• General resources about teaching American literature
• American literature authors and texts
  
• Sample syllabi, units, lesson plans, and activities for teaching American literature
  
• General resources on teaching British literature
• Resources sorted by British authors
• Resources sorted by British literary periods
• Sample syllabi, units, lessons, and activities for teaching British literature
• Independent or individualized reading programs
• 50 Alternatives to the Book Report. English Journal 
• EdSurge: Lots of online platforms for curriculum planning 
• 7 Ways to Hack Your Classroom to Provide Learning Choice
• School Tales: Online Research and Repository Initiative (STORRI) stories of “wobble” that teachers tell about the complexity of contemporary classrooms 
• Fiction No Longer Dominating Reading Instruction 
• ITS Learning: cloud-based LMS
• Ten Techniques to Teach Whole Class Novels
• Teacher at Mt. Blue Uses Engineering and Design Principles in English Class: Use of maker tools for responding to literature 

 

Google Classroom and Drive

• Using Google Classroom for organizing curriculum and instruction
• Manage and Organize Student Projects Using Doctopus with Google Drive
•   100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators 
• Alice Keeler: Google Classroom: LMS or Not? 
• 35 More Things You Can Do with Google Classroom 
• Using Google Classroom for organizing curriculum and instruction
• Johnathan Wylie: Descriptions on uses of Google Classroom

 

iTunes U

• Apple: iTunes U

 

Ning (charges $20.00 a year for the bottom-line platform)

• Ning  
• English Companion Ning
• K-12 classroom Ning sites
• Examples of Class Nings 

 

Drupal

• Drupal
• Social Media Classroom: free classroom site built on Drupal 
• Jeremy Tirrell, Using Drupal in an Academic Environment, Kairos Webcourse tools wiki
• The Social Media Classroom: Drupal site created by Howard Reingold
• ReadWriteWeb: The Social Media Classroom: New Web 2.0 Platform for Education
• Drupal site: eOdyssey School, Denver, Colorado 

 

Edmodo

• Edmodo
• Video: Steven Anderson: Collaborative Classroom with Edmodo
• Vance Kite: 10 Tips for Getting Started with Edmodo

 

Gaggle

• Gaggle