Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.

Through Voki, a Web 2.0 tool, students create customizable avatars for class presentations for various purposes, such as presenting biographical information, expressing an opinion, or reading a poem.

Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version.

Students analyze images of Oscar Wilde used to publicize his 1882 American lecture tour. They then compare a caricature to another researched image, sharing this analysis in a podcast.

Students view examples of blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character.

Today's students love chatting online with friends. This lesson combines that love with literature. Students form literature circles and have meaningful online discussions about a literary work.

Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.

Paper and pixels get compared in this lesson in which students compare both printed and online versions of a magazine.

Imagination and application are key to this tall tale lesson in which students take what they know about tall tales to spin a yarn of their own.

Informational texts, iPads, and interactive games, oh, my! Help students journey through multimodal texts to identify and solve real-world mathematics problems using writing and apps.

Students watch a sample of artistic video clips online and respond through creative writing while using the vocabulary words they are currently studying.

Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.

Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.

Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.

Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.

Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon.

What makes a superhero super? By comparing popular culture superheroes with heroic characters in children's literature, students learn to think critically about character traits, and consider how cultural perspectives influence the kinds of heroes we choose.

The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.

Students explore satire and parody in television and film, advertising, and journalism and create a display that highlights their findings.