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11. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Activity & Project
    Special Memories & Significant Moments: Making an Electronic Scrapbook
    Using a variety of artifacts, mementos, and technologies, teens can create an electronic scrapbook of their most important moments in high school.
12. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
    Take a Virtual Field Trip
    Can't make it to a zoo? Observe animal habits and habitats using one of the many Webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world.
13. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
    Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
14. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
    Teens as Writers
    In honor of NCTE's National Day on Writing, tune in to hear about the growing number of books featuring teens who write.
    
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online Writing
    Anne Frank shared her experiences through a private diary that became public as a book. In this lesson, students will consider how writing creates social identities as they blog about a political issue.
16. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Printout  |  Learning New Skills
    Through the Eyes of the Director
    What makes a movie work or fail? A well-made movie can draw viewers in so completely that they can forget that everything they see and hear was planned out by the filmmakers. This printout prompts teens to look at several distinct elements of a movie and decide on their overall effectiveness.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 12
    Today is D.E.A.R. Day!
    April 12 is known as D.E.A.R Day! D.E.A.R. stands for "Drop Everything and Read," a national month-long celebration of reading designed to remind folks of all ages to make reading a priority activity in their lives.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore Characterization and Style
    Students use social networking sites to trace the development of characters by assuming the persona of a character on the class Ning and sending a set number of tweets, or status updates.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Vote for Me! Making Presidential Commercials Using Avatars
    After researching political platforms of past presidents through primary sources and other resources, students create commercials for these presidents using Voki, an online web tool that produces speaking avatars.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
    Students explore the conventions of blog writing while using it to self-reflect on their writing and communicate with classmates about each other's reflections.

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