World War 1
Worldwar1.com: Trenches on the Web: Tragedy on the Somme: A Second Balaclava
For six days, heavy guns poured 1.6 million shells onto the deeply echeloned German trench lines on the Somme. Surely nothing could survive that, or could it? A chilling account of the Battle of the Somme, and its continuing effect on...
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Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
This site, provided by Mark Nottingham, defines the term "Cache," describes the different types of caches, and how caches work. Tips for using caches correctly in a site are also provided.
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Utah Online Services: Rss Workshop
A well-regarded introduction to publishing RSS feeds, from the state of Utah Online Services division. In this workshop, you'll learn how to create, validate, parse, publish, and syndicate your own RSS news channel. The emphasis is on...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: And the Author Is...using Digital Tools for Writing
Empower students to recognize that they are thinkers and writers! They will collaborate on a writing piece to brainstorm, organize and publish ideas with a digital tool. This lesson highlights different website creations as examples of...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Emiliano Zapata
This resource presents a biography of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. The biography is taken from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and published as part of an online project entitled "Zapatista Rebels in Mexico and the Electronic...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My Most Memorable Experience
In this instructional activity, each student will write a narrative story about his/her most memorable experience. Students will develop the narrative writing mode and create a brochure using desktop publishing software.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Edgar Allan Poe Classroom Activity
As part of a unit on Edgar Allan Poe and his works, this classroom activity provides a brief classroom project and includes lesson plan ideas, web links, and additional texts.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Scarlet Letter Classroom Activity
A classroom activity/lesson plan for beginning the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Includes web links, a bibliography, and other lessons on the novel. From March 16, 2007.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Noah Webster Classroom Activity
Lesson plan which provides information about Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1828. Includes student activities, lesson plans, web links, and an annotated bibliography. From April 14, 2007.