The Best So Far - 3 Months & 16 Days of Literacy Log

Welcome to Literacy Log! I took a little break for finals week and memorial day, but I'm ready to resume the literacy-related awesomeness. This week, I'm going to be adding new strategies, web resources, and perhaps some of my own teaching stories. I thought I'd start off with some of Literacy Log's Highlights so far.

• Wordle is Amazing. Pretty much everyone who knows me has heard me extoll the virtues of Wordle.net, a site that lets you make visualizations of text. Here's my favorite way to use it in the classroom so far.
• 826 Valencia - A Community-Based Literacy Solution. Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Eggers shows off his ingenious strategy to provide opportunities for one-on-one writing help to students. If you don't love this video, I'll eat my hat!
  
• Word Ahead Vocabulary Videos. This one seems to have gotten the best response so far. This is a great web resource for vocabulary building.
  
• Clay Burell - Literacy Redefined. Burell writes a thought-provoking blog on the Change.org network. Here, I discuss a couple of his posts that call into question the conventional definition of literacy using the brilliant Muhammed Ali as an example.