Poetry Out Loud
On-line texts of poems especially well-suited for performing out loud.
Poets.org
Academy of American Poets site----lots of resources here--
including poem texts, profiles of poets, and a nifty way to create and share poetry books or anthologies on-line
Poetry Resources for Teens---at Poets.org
How to Read a Poem
Brave New Voices
first episode
Youth Speaks
Poem a Day
180 on-line poem texts created especially for American high schools by Billy Collins, the poet laureate from 2001-2003
Classic Poetry Aloud
Audio versions of classic poems.
This page links to "If" by Rudyard Kipling
Most recent audio poems are available free on iTunes
Favorite Poem Project
Video-documentaries of people reciting favorite poems w/ connections to their lives
II. READING RESOURCES--BOOKS
LibraryThing
Create a catalog of your books on-line. Books you've read. Books you want to read. Easy and attractive way to keep track of reading.
YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)
Lists, lists, and more lists of books for young adults.
This particular page links to 86 books selected as best books for young adults in 2009
World of Reading
Book reviews by youth. Extensive data base. Can search by book. Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Public Library.
North Carolina Digital Library
Dowloadable audio ebooks
Gutenberg: The Audio Books Project
Free audio ebooks. Can search by title or subject.
example: download Metamorphosis by Kafka to iTunes
LibriVox
Downloadable audio ebooks in the public domain
(The link above links to Homer's Odyssey)
Manybooks.Net
Free ebooks and audio books for download---more than 23,000
III. WRITING RESOURCES
Visuwords
Online graphical dictionary
Online Etymology Dictionary
Word origins
Multigenre Writing
Extensive resources + annotated bibliography
OWL
Online writing lab at purdue
George Mason Writing Resource Center
Another site for writing resources----large number of handouts and links
IV. MYTHOLOGY RESOURCES
What is mythology?
Encyclopedia Mythica
Mythweb
Paleothea: Women in Greek Myths
He wrote Odysseus in America
V. RESOURCES ON USING IPODS
The iPod Experience at Brandeis University
K12 iPod Wiki
iPods in Education
At Learning in Hand
Student Podcasts
from the Nebraska Writing Project. w/ article about the Nebraska Writing Project experience
VI. ORGANIZATION
Evernote
