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 How can we incorporate technology into the teaching of the novel at the secondary level?

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 * Students could work in groups and then create a wiki that includes text, pictures, video, podcasts, etc. that address issues in the text.
 * Students could respond to questions in a blog through Epals.
 * Epals currently has two different products. Epals e-mail allows students to have e-mail, to use a digital locker, and to engage in forum discussion. Epals blog sites are separate entities.
 * Once a teacher has established a profile through Epals (e-mail account), he or she is able to connect with other classrooms throughout the world. A teacher is able to introduce a project that another teacher may want students to join.
 * Students could create a timeline of events from the novel at [|http://www.dipity.com].
 * Teachers and/or students could create games for review by downloading Power Point and/or Promethean templates for Jeopardy and other games.
 * Students could work in groups and create a project through [|Glogster]. Be sure that students and teachers use the "edu" site only. The regular Glogster has inappropriate content for school.
 * Students could create a podcast in response to a question about the novel. Students can upload the podcast to a wiki, to their Epals locker or to an on-line service such as [|Podbean].
 * Students could engage in a [|webquest] already on the web, or teachers could make a new one at []