10 ways to use the Internet in your Language Arts High School Class
by Joyce L. Morris, visiting assistant professor, The University of Vermont, March, 1999.

1. Participate in a book talk.

Currently, there are over 600 booktalks in the database  These short booktalks are intended to be used by library personnel and teachers.

2. Develop an online electronic literary magazine like Hunterdon Central Regional High School students or publish student poetry like So. Burlington Students.

Electric Soup

Pangea

3. Use CyberGuides

CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one online computer.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Odyssey   

All Quiet on the Western Front

Of Mice and Men

Brave New World

The Pearl

Chicano Literature: I am Joaquin 

The Pigman

The Crucible

Edgar Allan Poe: An Author Unit

Cry, the Beloved Country

The Poetry of Langston Hughes

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

Lord of the Flies

To Kill a Mockingbird

4. Get Lesson Plans and ideas

5. Ask an expert or author

Connect with experts and authors through e-mail

6. Do Research

Learn how to search the web to find electronic resources. To cite these resources the MLA Guideand Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information, by Nancy Crane, UVM Libraries are good guides.

7.E-Pal Classroom Exchange

locate teachers and students around the world

8. Join a WebQuest

WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.

9. Participate in a Telecommunicatons project

Global SchoolNet Foundation's list to telecommunciation's projects.

10. Build vocabulary with word games

from Acrophobia a game of acronyms to Y.A.R.N.,'s zany stories.