My students have been working on digital video projects in response to their most recent outside reading. I grouped them according to books with common themes and asked them to discuss what their books might say to their own contemporary lives. My original plan was simple:

1 day for discussion
1 day to storyboard the video
3 days [...]

Earlier this week, Yahoo closed all its Geocities sites. Last night, as I deleted dozens of now-dead links from Web English Teacher, I couldn’t help reflecting on what had been lost.
Geocities was a great resource for its time. (”For its time” –  just 10 years ago!) When it was launched, teachers were starting to see [...]