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With the misleading descriptor of "toy for generating word clouds," Wordle can be a powerful classroom tool, says Hayes. She outlines how its use for reading skills (predicting, summarizing, and comparing) and writing skills (prewriting, revising, generating poetry, expanding multimodal literacies) can engage students and develop creative and critical thinking. (Contains 3 figures.)

Hayes recognizes the value of connections kids make when authors and settings strike a familiar note. She invites readers to participate in a new event at this year's NCTE Annual Convention in New York City: The 21st-Century Literary Map Project gallery, where attendees are encouraged to examine affiliates' literary maps, see digital or digital/print hybrid maps, and create literary maps of their own region or state. She also provides numerous online links to literary maps of all kinds. (Contains 7 online resources.)

Technology training usually suffers from a two-pronged problem. First, the demonstration content is so simple that when we use the new technology in our classrooms and something goes wrong (and it will), we abandon it, blaming the technology. Second, no one teaches us how to troubleshoot those inevitable glitches. Hayes offers some practical tips for using technology in the classroom and for avoiding the stress that accompanies the most common problems.

When the National Gallery of Writing opens to the public on October 20, Hayes is hoping to hear from every profession, every socioeconomic group, every race, and ... your students. Hayes offers ideas for the many forms that writing might take, as well as a list of resources to help make writing for the gallery a unique experience for each writer.

Discusses the development of natural microbes for the on-farm treatments of chicken from salmonella by the Agricultural Research Service's Food Animal Protection Research Laboratory at College Station, Texas. Objectives; Insight into brewed bacterial mixes; Effect of mannose on intestinal receptors; Mechanics of on-farm testing. INSET: The search for alternatives..

The article reflects on her five-year technology column for the journal, reviewing her past columns and looking forward to future education technologies as she writes her last column. She informs that many U.S. states have adopted the Common Core Standards (CCS) that she hopes will address the issue of recognition of 21st century skills. The author comments that the National Education Technology Plan (NETP) promotes learning as powered by technology and that new education models are moving away from the delivery method and toward the discovery approach.